WILLIAM (1640?-1716).-Dramatist, was _b._ at Clive, near Shrewsbury, where his _f._ had an estate. He was at the Inner Temple in 1659, and at Oxf. in 1660. Part of his youth had been spent in France, where he became a Roman Catholic, but at the Restoration he returned to Protestantism. He wrote four comedies, _Love in a Wood_, _The Gentleman D