 Since no play later than "A Game at Chess" is recorded, it has been suggested that this included a ban on writing for the stage.Middleton died at his home at Newington Butts in Southwark in 1627, and was buried on 4 July in St Mary's churchyard.The old church of St Mary's was demolished in 1876 to facilitate road-widening, and its replacement elsewhere in Kennington Park Road was destroyed in the Second World War but rebuilt in 1958.