John Bancroft (dramatist)

Henry the Second, King of England, with the Death of Rosamond, produced in 1692 at the Theatre Royal, is also assigned to Bancroft, though the dedication is signed "Will.

It is included in Six Plays written by Mr. Mountfort in two volumes, London: printed for Jacob Tonson, George Strahan and William Mears, 1720.

Thomas Coxeter, by whom the materials were collected for Theophilus Cibber's Lives of the Poets, attributes to Bancroft King Edward the Third with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March, published in 4to 1691, and also included in the collection of Mountfort.

He states that Bancroft made a present to Mountfort, both of the reputation and profits of the piece.

In the bookseller's preface to Mountfort's collected works it is said of these two dramas that 'tho' not wholly composed by him, it is presumed he had, at least, a share in fitting them for the stage.