The manuscript of this hitherto unpublished and untitled Jacobean play was discovered in 1973, its text transcribed in five hands. The play is a long romance (over 3000 lines) on the life and deeds of Tom a Lincoln, or the Red Rose Knight. It dates from c . 1611, and appears to contain allusions to, or echoes of, Henry IV , Hamlet , King Lear , and Shakespeare's late plays. One scene is imitated from Thomas Heywood's Rape of Lucrece (1608), and this, together with the evidence of its vocabulary, raises the possibility that the whole play was written by Heywood. How much of the play is parody is a vexed issue. In this edition, the manuscript and the hands are described in detail, and contexts are provided for the play's genre, and its authorship. There are texts of eleven other short pieces in the manuscript, including memoranda, and poems in English and Welsh. This book is intended for students (graduate and above) of Renaissance drama; Shakespeare; textual and bibliographical problems; manuscript studies; social history.