A Wife for a Month A Wife for a Month A Wife for a Month is a late Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by John Fletcher and originally published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647. The play was licensed for performance by Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, on 27 May 1624; it was acted by the King's Men. The partial cast list added to the play in the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1679 mentions Joseph Taylor, Robert Benfield, Richard Robinson, John Underwood, Nicholas Tooley, and George Birch. The list contains a contradiction, since Tooley died
HMS Emerald (1795) captured an American ship, "Wasp", in July 1810. "Wasp" was carrying 91 passengers from New York to Bordeaux; they arrived at Plymouth on 30 July. "Emerald" was still serving on the Home Station on 11 April 1811 when she sent into Cork a French privateer. This was the 18-gun (or "Augusta"), which had been taken on 6 April. Nearly a month later, on 5 July, "Emerald" left Madeira in the company of five East Indiamen and was still on convoy duties later that month when a transport ship spotted her escorting thirteen vessels off the coast of West Africa on