Recently the old question of the quarto-folio relationship of the York and Lancaster plays has come to the fore again—this time in exhaustive studies made by Mr. Alexander and Miss Doran in favor of the theory that the Quartos, the Contention and the True Tragedy, are pirated or reported versions of the Folio plays—2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI respectively—following rather than preceding 2 and 3 Henry VI. They hold that the Contention and the True Tragedy were written by actors who had played in 2 and 3 Henry VI and written from memory with the possible aid of a few scattered, isolated manuscript or printed parts. Rather am I in accord with the position taken by Professor Tucker Brooke in 1912, namely, that there is a lost text from which the Contention and the True Tragedy, the Whole Contention, and the Folio all came separately or independently. I am not sure that Professor Brooke now holds exactly this position, since his review of Alexander's study contains some qualifications, but I believe it is right, and submit here my evidence for so believing.