Davenport, Robert, active 1623

found: His A pleasant and vvitty comedy called A new tricke to cheat the Divell, 1639:t.p. (R.D.)

found: Wikipedia, January 20, 2015(Robert Davenport (fl. 1623-1639) was an English dramatist of the early seventeenth century; scholars have guessed that he was born c. 1590; he enters the historical record in 1624, when two of his plays were licensed by the Master of the Revels. His extant dramatic canon consists of only three plays: The City Nightcap, A New Trick to Cheat the Devil, and King John and Matilda; three other plays entered in the Stationers Register as Davenport's have not survived: The Peddler, The Fatal Brothers, and The Politic Queen. Samuel Sheppard, in a 1651 epigram, mentions a fourth lost work, The Pirate. Davenport is also reported to have collaborated with Thomas Drue on The Woman's Mistaken, and that too is lost; a history play titled Henry I was licensed for performance by the King's Men on 10 April 1624 as Davenport's work; it has not survived; Three significant poems by Davenport also survive. They are: A Crown for a Conqueror, a religious poem, and Too Late to Call Back Yesterday, a moral dialogue, both published in 1639; and A Survey of the Sciences, which survived in manuscript and was published only in the 1880s)

found: Dictionary of national biography, 1885-1901, via Google books, January 20, 2015:vol. 14 (Davenport, Robert (fl. 1623), poet and dramatist)