=The Facts of Porter's Life.=--_The Two Angry Women of Abington_ is the
only extant production of Henry Porter. In 1841 Mr. Collier, who was
then editing Henslowe's _Diary_, supplied Mr. Dyce with what purported
to be all the materials in that journal relative to this dramatist;
and these, with the exception of one of August 23, 1597, connecting
him with Nashe, which has been shown to be a forgery, are copied from
Dyce's Percy Society edition of the _Two Angrie Women_ by Mr. H. Ellis
for the preface to the Mermaid edition of the play. The statement is
there made that "the foregoing extracts--extending over the brief
period of a single year ... contain all the definite information which
has reached us concerning Henry Porter." An examination of Collier's
Henslowe's _Diary_ will show, however, that Mr. Ellis omits about a
dozen entries[1580] affecting our poet which, though inaccessible
to Dyce in 1841, have been available since 1845. A complete list of
such notices in their chronological order has not been set before the
public. I, therefore, subjoin the following, inserting an additional
memorandum (No. 8) of January 17, 1598-9, from another source, and
eliminating the suspicious Henslowe entries which Mr. George F.
Warner[1581] has branded as Collier forgeries. The references are to
the first volume of the _Diary_.