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Excerpt from The Maid's Tragedy, and Philaster
John fletcher, son of Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, was baptized at Rye in Sussex, where his father was then minister, December 20, 1579, and died of the plague in August, 1625. He was entered as a pensioner at Bene't College, Cambridge, I 591. His father as Dean of Peterborough attended Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringay, and was later rapidly promoted to the sees of Bristol, Worcester, and London. Handsome of person and elo quent of speech, he was a successful courtier and a favorite of the Queen, though he suffered a loss of favor shortly before his death in I 596. The dramatist received by bequest a share in his father's books, but apparently little other property. He was buried August 29, 162 5, in Saint Saviour's, Southwark.
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