*p1690 11 00 dl King Edward the Third; With the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March. [The author is not certain, but possibly the play was written by $John Bancroft= and $William Mountfort=.] Edition of 1691: Prologue-Mr Powell; Epilogue-Mrs Bracegirdle; King Edward the Third-Powell; Mortimer Earl of March-Williams; Lord Mountacute-Mountfort; Sir Tho. Delamore-Kynaston; Sir Robert Holland-Hodgson; Tarleton, Bishop of Hereford-Lee; Serjeant Eitherside-Nokes; Turrington-Bridges; Nevill-Freeman; Sly-Bright; Secret-Trafuse; Earl of Leicester-Bowman; Earl of Exeter-Sandford; Isabella-Mrs Barry; Maria-Mrs Bracegirdle.*c1690 11 00 dl The <i>United Company</i>. The date of the first performance is not known, but it followed <i>The Gordian Knot Unty'd</i>, which is mentioned in the Prologue. <i>Edward III</i> was advertised in the <i>London Gazette</i>, No. 2629, 19-22 Jan. 1690@1, and entered in the <i>Term Catalogues</i>, February 1690@1. The authorship is uncertain. The title page bears no author's name, but the Dedication is signed by $Will. Mountfort=. In addition, on 10 Oct. 1691 Mountfort received a grant of #10 when <i>Edward III</i> was played before the Queen (L. C. 5@150, p. 306, in <i>Nicoll, Restoration Drama</i>, p. 357). On tne other hand, the <i>Gentleman's Journal</i>, October 1692, stated that it was written by the author of <i>Henry the Second</i>, which has been attributed to $John Bancroft=. See Nicoll, <i>Restoration Drama</i>, pp. 388-89, for a summation of the evidence on this problem. $Alfred Harbage=, <i>Elizabethan-Restoration Palimpsest</i>, <i>Modern Language Review</i>, XXXV (1940), 319, thinks that this is a revision of $Robert Davenport='s <i>The Politic Queen</i>.