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ROSCIUS ANGLICANUS, 
 
 OR, AN 
 
 HISTORICAL REVIEW 
 
 OF THE 
 
 STAGE 
 
 From 1660 to 1706, 
 BY 
 
 JOHN DOWNES. 
 
 A Facsimile Reprint of the Rare Original of 1708. 
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PREFACE 
 BY THE EDITOR. 
 
 "pOR his knowledge of the stage before Colley Gibber 
 began his matchless, if not always trustworthy Apo- 
 logy, the student of theatrical history is indebted to 
 comparatively few books. In Pepys's Memoirs appetising 
 glimpses into the performances of Restoration dramas 
 are afforded, and more or less curious information con- 
 cerning play-houses, actors, and authors, in Tudor and 
 Stuart times is to be gleaned in the plays, tracts, and 
 prologues of writers from Nash and Heywood, to Dave- 
 nant, Dryden, and Flecknoe, from the Histrio-mastix of 
 Prynne, 1633, and from Wright's Historia Histrionica, 
 1699. The one work, however, from whichji history of 
 the stage, from the period of the Restoratfon to the 
 beginning of the eighteenth century can be obtained, is 
 the Roscius Anglicanus of John Downes, now for the 
 first time reprinted in its original shape. The first edi- 
 tion of this work is, as collectors know, so scarce that a 
 copy of it can rarely be obtained. It was spoken of as 
 "extremely scarce" by Waldron, who in 1789 — from the 
 same copy from which the present facsimile is taken — 
 printed an edition, itself far from common, with the ad- 
 dition of notes by Thomas Davies, the bookseller, the 
 author of the Life of Garrick, and of Dramatic Miscel- 
 lanies, and by himself. 
 
 In the sale catalogue of the library of Henderson, the 
 
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 actor, the coj)y from which both reprints are taken was 
 announced. The volume, according to Waldron, was 
 " claimed as the property of the Hon. Mr. {sic) Byng," 
 by whom it had been lent to Henderson, and who had 
 purchased it from the widow of Davies. 
 
 John Downes was, as his address to the reader states, 
 book-keeper and prompter to the theatre in Lincoln's 
 Inn Fields, from its opening in 1662, until October, 
 1706. By a quotation from "The Spanish Tragedy, or 
 Hieronimo is Mad Again," by Thomas Kyd, Waldron 
 shews that book-keeper means what Ben Johson in the 
 Introduction to "Cynthia's Revels," calls the book-holder, 
 the individual who holds or keeps the manuscript or 
 book of the play. 
 
 Of the life of Downes little, except what he himself 
 tells us, is known. With many defects as a chronicler, 
 springing in part from the entire absence of any literary 
 gift, but in a still higher degree from his not unnatural 
 forgetfulness that future generations might be greatly 
 concerned, with matters which to him, appeared too 
 trivial for mention, Downes supplies the most trust- 
 worthy information we possess concerning the stage 
 during the period when its licence was greatest, and when 
 its changes and transmutations were most important. 
 To mention two things only ; it is during the period 
 covered by the review of Downes, that the use of scenery 
 began, and that women first appeared regularly on the 
 stage as the exponents of feminine characters. That there 
 were actresses, of a sort, in classical times is known, and 
 that English ladies of rank took part from an early time, 
 in dramatic entertainments, revels at Court, and the like 
 has been shown. No English woman appeared, however, 
 upon a public stage until 1656, and then, as will be 
 shown, she was not allowed to speak, but only to sing. 
 
EDITORS PREFACE. VU 
 
 In Brome's " Court-Beggar," acted at the Cock-pit, 1632, 
 are the words " Women actors now grow in request" 
 This has been supposed to indicate that female cha- 
 racters in English plays had then been assigned to women. 
 It more probably refers to the fact stated by Prynne, that 
 " not long since " (Michaelmas, 1629), '' they had French- 
 women Actors in a play personated in Blacke-friers 
 Play-house, to which there was great resort." * According 
 to a letter from one Thomas Brande, 8th Nov., 1629, 
 these Frenchwomen were " hissed, hooted, and pippen 
 pelted from the stage." 
 
 In "The Ball" of Shirley and Chapman, 1639, Jack 
 Freshwater, a pretended traveller, asserts that in Paris 
 "the women are the best actors, they play their own 
 parts, a thing much desired in England by some ladies, 
 inns o' court gentlemen, and others."t It may safely 
 then, be assumed that the women whose performances 
 Downes chronicles, were the first English actresses who 
 appeared upon the stage to speak the words of a play. 
 In Davenant's patent it is expressly said, that " Whereas 
 the women's parts in plays have hitherto been acted by 
 men in the habits of women, at which some have taken 
 offence, we do permit and give leave for the time to 
 come that all womens parts be acted by women. "J 
 The discussion of the question, abundantly ventilated, 
 whether the women mentioned by classical writers as 
 appearing on the stage, were actresses or dancers, is 
 outside the present subject. 
 
 * Histrio-mastix, p. 215. 
 
 + Act v., Sc, i. 
 
 % Given in " The State of the Case between the Lord Chamberlain 
 of his Majesty's Household, and Sir Richard Steele, as Represented 
 by that Knight," London, 1720. 
 
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 Concerning the actresses who appeared in the comedies 
 of the Restoration, Downes supplies particulars which 
 are always interesting, and sometimes not a little naive. 
 He chronicles moreover (p. 46), the engagement of foreign 
 women : Madam Sublini, Margarita Delpine, Maria 
 Gallia, and others ; and states that Madam Delpine had 
 by modest computation, got " by the Stage and Gentry, 
 above T 0,000 guineas," an almost incredible sum for 
 those days. 
 
 So early then as the seventeenth century, foreign artists 
 had found London a happy hunting ground. 
 
 Freshwater, in " The Ball," whom I have previously 
 quoted, says, in words which even then, 1639, had 
 special significance, and were likely to " draw down the 
 house," " You must encourage strangers while you live : 
 it is the character of our nation, we are famous for de- 
 jecting our own countrymen."* He is in this case re- 
 ferring to portrait painters and not to actors, but the 
 analogy between the two holds good. 
 
 A just but a timid critic, Downes seldom warms into 
 eloquence or poetry except, when dealing with women. 
 He describes how the famous Mrs. Barry, when she 
 acted Monimia (in "The Orphan "), Belvidera (in " Ven- 
 ice Preserved"), and Isabella (in "The Fatal Marriage"), 
 "forced tears from the eyes of her auilitory, especially those 
 who have any sense of pity for the distressed ; " while of 
 the potent and magnetick charm " of Mrs. Braccginlle in 
 "performing a song" in Crowne's ''Justice Busy," he 
 states, with unwonted enthusiam, that it " caus'd the stones 
 of the streets to fly into men's faces," a miracle a little 
 diftjcult of comprehension, and more satisfactory to hear 
 of than to experience Of the Ixau sexe in general he is 
 indeed an admirer, his duties as prompter or book 
 • Act iii., Sc. iii. 
 
EDITORS PREFACE. IX 
 
 holder being not too onerous to incapacitate him for 
 noticing the " daily charming presence " of the ladies of 
 the Court at the performance of Lee's " Theodosius, or 
 the Force of Love." Mrs, Long, too, in the " Woman 
 made a Justice," is credited with acting the Justice 
 " charmingly," and for Mrs. Davies the same epithet is 
 reserved. Downes is indeed our authority for the asser- 
 tion that in the part of Celia, a shepherdess (should be 
 Celania, the Jailor's daughter), in " The Rivals," an 
 alteration by Sir William Davenant of " The Two Noble 
 Kinsmen," in giving the well-known song, " My Lodg- 
 ng is on the cold ground," Mrs. Davies *' perform'd 
 that so charmingly, that not long after, it raised her 
 from the cold ground to a bed royal." 
 
 The statement is correct. Genest, however, in his 
 " Account of the English stage " is at the pains to con« 
 tradict it. "Charles the 2nd," says Genest, "did not 
 take Mrs. Davis into keeping." This, for a writer 
 so careful as Genest, is a sad blunder. Never indeed, 
 was a worse shot. Pepys supplies abundant particulars 
 concerning the royal favourite, and the jealousies she 
 caused. First he depicts little Miss Davis, March 7th, 
 166J, dancing a jigg, which was "infinitely beyond the 
 other," the other being Nell Gwyn. He then, Jan. 
 14th, i66|, tells how the King has given her a ring of 
 ;;^7oo, and has " furnished a house in Suffolke-street, most 
 richly for her." On the 31st May, 1668, he describes how 
 the Queen would not stay to see the jigg Mrs. Davis had 
 to dance, " which most people do think was out of dis- 
 pleasure at her being the King's mistress, that she could 
 not bear it," and depicts my Lady Castlemaine " mightily 
 out of request," and "mighty melancholy and discon- 
 tented." One more picture coloured to the life, the old 
 gossip presents, in Dec. 21st of the same year. After 
 
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 telling how his wife appeared "as pretty as any of them " 
 in the theatre, and how the King and the Duke of York 
 " minded him, and smiled at him," he continues, " But it 
 vexed me to see Moll Davis in the box over the King's 
 and my Lady Castlemaine, look down upon the King, 
 and he up to her; and so did my Lady Castlemaine 
 once, to see who it was ; but when she saw Moll Davis, 
 she looked like fire ; which troubled me." 
 
 Genest can indeed, never have heard the story pre- 
 served by Grainger in a note to his Biographical History 
 of England, of the rivalry between Moll Davies and 
 Nell Gwynn. " It would be too indelicate to mention 
 the particular consequences of the jalap, which was 
 given to Moll Davies at supper by Nell Gwynn, who 
 knew that she was to lie the same night with the King. 
 It is sufficient to hint at the violence of its operation, 
 and the disastrous effects : such effects as the ancients 
 would have attributed to .\nteros, a malignant deity, 
 and the avowed enemy of Cupid."* 
 J According to Pepys, Moll Davies was an illegitimate 
 
 daughter of Colonel Howard, my Lord Berkshire, who 
 "got her for the King." The result of this royal intrigue 
 wns a daughter, named Mary Tudor, married in 
 1687 to the son of .^ir Francis Ratcliffe, who became 
 Earl of Derwentwater. The unfortunate Earl who 
 perished on Tower Hill was the son of this Mary Tudor, 
 whose death is thus noticed in the Historical Register for 
 1726, Vol. n. " 1726, Nov. 5. — Dy'd at Paris, aged 53 
 years, or thereabouts. The Ladv Mary Tudor, Countess 
 of Derwentwater, relict of Francis Ratcliffe, second Earl 
 of Derwentwater, who had issue by her — three sons and 
 one dnughter — viz. : J.iniep, who succeeded his father in 
 the Earldom, and was beheaded for high treason, on 
 
 • Vol. iv., p. 1S7. rd. 1775 
 
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 Tower Hill, in 17 16; Francis, and Charles, and the 
 Lady Mary Tudor. She was twice marry'd after the 
 death of the Earl, her first husband, viz. : first to Henry 
 
 Grahame, Esq, ; and after his decease to Rooke, 
 
 Esq., son of Brigadier-General Rooke." 
 
 In " Epigrams of all sorts made at Divers Times, on 
 Severall Occasions," by Richard Flecknoe, London, 
 1670, p. 43, is an "epigram" to Mrs. Davies on her 
 excellent dancing. This commences " Dear Mis,"' and 
 is noteworthy as an exceptionally early instance of 
 addressing an unmarried woman as Miss, without, it 
 may be supposed, intending to cast an imputation upon 
 her morals, such as at that time the use of the word 
 sometimes involved. 
 
 It has been supposed by Waldron, that the elevation 
 to the "bed royal" justified Downes in bestowing the 
 title of Madame instead of that of Mrs. ; Downes how- 
 ever, does not confine the tide to the recipients of royal 
 homage, since he confers it on Mrs. Bracegirdle, who 
 had no such qualification. 
 
 At page 35, Downes mentioning the losses undergone 
 by the company previous to 1673, states of Mrs. Daven- 
 port, Mrs. Davies, and Mrs. Jennings, in the peculiar 
 phraseology he affects, that they " by force of love, were 
 erept the stage." There seems every reason to believe 
 that Mrs. Davenport was the heroine of an adventure 
 which Davies in his notes to the " Roscius Anglicanus" and 
 again in his " Dramatic Miscellanies " (iii. 277 — 9), assigns 
 to Mrs. Marshall. This adventure is told in " Grammont's 
 Memoirs," by Mrs. Hobart, of the Earl of Oxford and the 
 "handsome, gi-aceful actress, belonging to the duke's 
 theatre, who performed to perfection, particularly the part 
 of Roxana, in a very fashionable new play, insomuch that 
 
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 she ever after retained that name."* According to this 
 story, the Earl who was madly in love with the actress, 
 and was unable by any protestations or promises of 
 marriage to overcome her resistance, came to her 
 lodgings attended by a clergyman and a witness, and 
 went solemnly through the wedding ceremony. 
 
 Upon investigation, it proved that " the pretended 
 priest was one of my lord's trmnpeters, and the witness 
 his kettle-drummer." t Appeals to Charles I. to avenge 
 her outraged honour upon the part of the woman, thus 
 ill-treated by the High and Mighty Prince, Aubrey de 
 Vera, Knight of the Garter, Colonel of the Royal 
 Regiment of Life Guards, and possessor then, or sub- 
 sequently, of many offices of honour, trust and 
 emoluments, were vain ; no redress was obtained, 
 and the victim was ultimately compelled to 
 accept a pension of a thousand crowns, or according to 
 Curll's History of the Stage, o{^s°°-+ Curll departs in 
 many particulars from the story narrated by Hamilton, 
 and rightly calls the heroine of the adventure Roxalana 
 instead of Roxana. As, however, he is the worst 
 authority conceivable, his statements are entitled to 
 no more credit than is the assertion of Walpole, 
 that the actress in question was a Mrs. Rarker, of 
 whose existence no trace is preserved. Mrs. Marshall 
 was the original Roxana of Lee's " Rival Queens," 
 produced at the Theatre Royal in 1677, and the 
 story was consc(iucntly, attributed to her. Malone, and 
 after him Genest,§ suppose however, the heroine to have 
 been Mrs. Davenport, who acted Roxalana in " The 
 
 * Graminont's Memoirs, Kd. IJohii, p. 230. 
 + Ibia., p. 231. 
 t p. 35. 
 § Account of the Stajjc, Vol. i., p. 49. 
 
EDITORS PREFACE. XIU 
 
 Siege of Rhodes," of Davenant, at the Lincoln's Inn 
 Fields Theatre in 1661 ; and a second Roxalana in the 
 "Mustapha," of Lord Orrery, at the same house in 1663, 
 The actress is stated in the translation of Grammont's 
 Memoirs to have belonged to the Duke's company, and 
 the play is therein described as "a very fashionable 
 new play." Reference to the original French, however, 
 shows that the last phrase is an unwarranted addition 
 of the translator. The words of Hamilton, in the first 
 edition (Cologne chez Pierre Marteau), 17 13, with the 
 original spelling and italics are as follows : Le Comte 
 d'Oxford devint amoureux d'une Comedienne de la 
 Troiipe du Duc^ belle, gracieuse, & qui jouoit dans la 
 perfection. Le Rtle de Roxelane, dans une Piece 
 Nouvelle I'avoit niise en Vogue, le nom lui en ^toit 
 rest^. — p. 295. In consequence of not having turned to 
 the original, Genest charges the author of the Memoirs 
 with having called the actress Roxana, instead of Roxal- 
 ana. Hamilton, as is seen, does no such thing. 
 The name he gives is Roxelane, and the error is 
 wholly due to the translator. That the actress in 
 question was Mrs. Davenport, as surmised by Malone 
 and Genest, and not Mrs. Marshall, as stated by Davies 
 in his notes to Downes, and by Curll in his History of 
 the Stage ; is conclusively shewn by Pepys, who under 
 the date of May 20th, 1662, has the words : " My wife 
 and I by coach to the opera, and there saw the second 
 part of ' the Siege of Rhodes,' but it is not so well done 
 as when Roxalana was there, who, it is said, is now 
 owned by my Lord Oxford." 
 
 Evelyn also, in his Diary, has the entry: "9th Jan., 
 1661 — 62, I saw acted ' the third part of the Siege of 
 Rhodes.' In this acted the fair and famous comedian 
 Roxalana \ from the part she performed — and I think it 
 
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 was the last — she being taken to be the Earl of Oxford's 
 Miss (as at this time they began to call lewd women)." 
 
 It has been doubted if after her mishap, Mrs. Daven- 
 port again appeared upon the stage. The name of a 
 Mrs. Davenport appears in 1663, at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 
 as Camilla, in Tuke's "Adventures of Five Hours." 
 On March 2nd, 1667, a Mrs. E. Davenport played 
 Sabina, and a Mrs, F. Davenport, Flavia, in Dryden's 
 " Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen," and in the cast 
 of " The Black Prince " of the Earl of Orrery, given 
 in the October of the same year, see " Roscius Angli- 
 canus," p. 14, are the names "Valeria Disguised, F. 
 Damporf, and a Lady, Betty Dainport" It is unUkely, 
 however, that any of these characters would have been 
 assigned to the Mrs. Davenport, whose fame was such in 
 Roxalana, and whose name Downes, p. 20, places at 
 the head of the four principal actresses whom Davenant 
 boarded at his house. How difficult is the task of 
 arriving at an accurate knowledge of facts concerning 
 the early stage, may be judged by the foregoing story. 
 
 It is needless to say that upon the subject of the lady 
 carried oft' by Lord Oxford, Downes supplies no informa- 
 tion. Except in the case of such noblemen as were also 
 dramatists, the old prompter is judiciously char}' of 
 dealing with the titled mohocks, who, after the appear- 
 ance of women on the stage, commenced perpetually to 
 infest the theatre, and when promises and blandishments 
 failed, did not hesitate to employ force to carry oft' the 
 actresses. 
 
 Davcnant's before-mentioned play, The "Siege of 
 Rhodes," finds conspicuous mention, juge 20, when 
 Downes states — aproi)Os of the opening by Sir William 
 Davenant, of the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the 
 spring of 1662, with the I'irst and Second parts of "The 
 
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 Siege of Rhodes" and "The Wits"— that the new- 
 scenes and decorations then employed, were the first 
 that were introduced into England. Unless, which is 
 possible, this means that the " scenes and decorations " 
 were the same that had previously been used, this 
 declaration is inaccurate. Scenery had been employed 
 in London six years previously, and curiously enough, 
 in the same play, which as chance arranges, is histori- 
 cally, the most interesting work in the English language. 
 
 The question of accuracy in Downes, depends, to a 
 certain extent, upon the point whether the representation 
 of a first draft of the Siege of Rhodes, which Cromwell 
 permitted, is to be regarded as dramatic or operatic. 
 
 In 1656 was published a work entitled "The Siege of 
 Rhodes. Made a Representation by the Art of Pro- 
 spective in Scenes, and the Story sung in Recitative 
 Musick. At the back part of Rutland House, in the 
 upper end of Aldersgate Street, London. London, 
 Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringham, and are to be 
 sold at his shop, at the Sign of the Anchor, on the 
 Lower Walk, in the New Exchange. 1656." This piece, 
 which was subsequently enlarged into "The Siege of 
 Rhodes," as it is now known, appears to have been 
 examined by few of the stage historians. Langbaine in 
 his " Account of the English Dramatick Poets," says, 
 " Siege of Rhodes, in two Parts. These plays were 
 likewise, in the times of the Civil War, acted in Stilo 
 Recitativo, and printed in quarto, but afterwards en- 
 larged by the Author, and acted with applause at the 
 Duke of York's Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn Fields."* The 
 "Biographia Dramatica" and Mr. Halliwell's "Dictionary 
 of Old Plays," mention no difference between the first 
 edition and that subsequently enlarged and published in 
 * Account of the Dramatick Poets, page xio. 
 
 Miwriifai^S 
 
XVI EDITOR S PREFACE. 
 
 1659 (?). The earlier edition however, differs widely 
 from the first of the two parts of " The Siege of 
 Rhodes." The character of Roxalana does not even 
 appear in it, and it has but seven characters against 
 eleven named characters and many supernumeraries in 
 the later edition. It occupies forty pages, with eight 
 pages of preliminary matter, and two, of which one is 
 blank at the end, form what is called " The Story Per- 
 sonated." It is in Five " entries " and not in acts. 
 The First part in the Second edition is also in Five 
 entries, occupying 46 pages without counting preliminary 
 matter. The second part is divided into acts. Two 
 copies of the earliest impression of " The Siege of 
 Rhodes," are in the British Museum Library. This 
 first sketch was acted some time about the date of its 
 publication, at Rutland House, which was situated near 
 Charter-House Square. Concession for the performance 
 of " Declamation and Musick after the maimer of the 
 Ancients" had been obtained from Cromwell, by the 
 Lord Keeper Whitelock, Sergeant Maynard, and other 
 persons of influence. 
 
 A letter from Davenant to Sir Bulstrode Whitelock, 
 included in the " Memorials," is interesting in many 
 respects, and has, I believe, been printed in no work 
 dealing with the stage. The entire passage is as follows: 
 Sep. 3., 1656. " I received this letter from Sir William 
 Davenant. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 When I consider the nicety of the times, I fear it 
 may draw a curtain between your lordship and our 
 opera; therefore, I have presumed to sciul your lord- 
 ship, hot from the pitss, wh:it we mean to represent, 
 making your lordship my supreme judge, though I 
 
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 despair to have the honour of inviting you to be a 
 spectator. I do not conceive the perusal of it worthy 
 any part of your lordship's leisure, unless your ancient 
 relation to the Muses make you not unfiling to give 
 a little entertainment to poetry; though in so mean a 
 dress as this and coming from, my lord, 
 
 Your lordship's most obedient servant, 
 
 William Davenant."* 
 This letter serves to show that Whitelock was favour- 
 able to Davenant's scheme, that the first representation 
 given by Davenant at Rutland House, was subsequent to 
 Sep. 3rd, 1656, and that Davenant from the first, by 
 way of avoiding the use of the word stage-play, called 
 his first production an opera. Long after he had dis- 
 missed the music and produced regular tragedies, he 
 adhered to the word opera, the use of which had 
 enabled him to steer his bark in " ticklish times." 
 
 It has been held that the first performance at Rutland 
 House was on May 21st, 1656. This is not quite sure. 
 Previous to the representation of "The Siege of Rhodes," 
 something in the nature of a masque was given. 
 The title of this was "The First Days Entertainment 
 at Rutland-House, by Declamations and Musick, After 
 the manner of the Ancients by Sr W. D." It was 
 printed in small 8vo, by I. M. for Henrj' Herringham, 
 London, 1657. In the copy in the King's Library, 
 British Museum of this scarce little volume, the date is 
 altered in a contemporary hand-writing, to 1656 ; and the 
 date of November 22nd, which has been supposed to be 
 that of the actual day of publication, is added. Suffi- 
 cently timid was this venture. It begins with music; 
 the author then, in a prologaie, excuses his own attempt. 
 Subsequently Diogenes, as the representative of Puritanic 
 * Memorials, p. 650 
 
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 views, and Aristophanes, speaking for enlightened 
 Athenians, in turn address the public, and are followed 
 by a Londoner and a Parisian, who speak as to the 
 relative advantages of the capitals they inhabit. The 
 entertainment is liberally interspersed with music, vocal 
 and instrumental, by Dr. Charles Coleman, Captain 
 Henry Cook, Mr. Henry Lawes, and Mr. George 
 Hudson. 
 
 In The Siege of Rhodes, by which this tentative per- 
 formance was followed, a bold step was taken in advance. 
 A regular play was acted and sung, with tlie accompani- 
 ment of scenery, which was the first that had been ex- 
 hibited on the English stage. The following list of cha- 
 racters is from the prefatory matter to the printed play : — 
 Solyman by Capt. Henry Cook. 
 Villerius „ Mr. Gregory ThorndelL 
 Alphonso „ Mr. Edward Coleman. 
 Admiral „ Mr. Matthew Lock. 
 Pirrhus „ Mr. John Harding. 
 Mustapha „ Mr. Henry Persill. 
 Linthe „ Mrs. Coleman, wife to Mr. Coleman. 
 *' The composition of Vocal music was perform'd. 
 The First Entry by Mr. Henry Lawes. 
 „ Second „ ,, Capt. Henry Cook. 
 „ Third „ „ Capt. Henry Cook. 
 „ Fourth „ „ Mr. Matthew Lock. 
 „ Fifth „ ,, Mr. Henry Lawes." 
 The interest of these particulars cannot easily be 
 overrated. ^Litthew Lock is, of course, the composer to 
 whom is now generally assigned the music to Macbeth, 
 which however, has been claimed for Purccll. Henry 
 Lawes is the musician who composed the songs for 
 *' Comus," and acted the Attendant's part in the famous 
 performance at Ludlow Castle. Henry Persill is Henry 
 
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EDITOR S PREFACE. XIX 
 
 Purcell, also a musician, the father of the more celebrated 
 Henry PurcelL Cook was a recognised musician, and so 
 assumably in their day, were Harding, Edward Coleman, 
 and Thorndell, whose names however, I do not find in 
 Musical Dictionaries. 
 
 We may assume this to have been an open perfor- 
 mance, since D'Avenant in the epilogue to the enter- 
 tainment at Rutland House, by which this was preceded, 
 delivers these lines : — 
 
 *' We have your Money, true ; if you can call 
 That ours of which we make no use at all. 
 The Poets never mind such toys as these — 
 
 [SAews 7noney in his hand.'] 
 But keep them to be sent for when you please. 
 At worst (if you may credit, in frail times. 
 Bankers, who turn and wind a world of Rimes) — 
 They are but bow'd, (qy. borrow' d) laid in a trunk 
 
 above 
 And kept as simple Tokens of your love." 
 Mrs. Coleman, is accordingly, to be recognized as 
 the first English professional actress. She took after- 
 wards to the stage. Pepys says, concerning her, 
 October 31, 1665, " About nine at night I come home, 
 and anon comes ]Mrs. Coleman and her husband, and 
 she sung very finely, though her voice is decayed as to 
 strength, but mighty sweet, though soft, and a pleasant 
 jolly woman, and in mighty good humour. She sung 
 part of the Opera, though she would not own she did 
 get any of it without book in order to the stage." In 
 her performance of lanthe, Mrs. Coleman, however, did 
 not speak the lines assigned her, but gave them in a 
 species of chaunt, or what Aubrey in his " Miscellanies " 
 calls " stilo recitativo." 
 
 In the performance of " The Siege of Rhodes " at Rut- 
 
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 land House, stage scenery was for the first time used. 
 Scenery of a sufficiently elaborate kind had been em- 
 ployed in different countries in the representation of the 
 Miracle plays. With these however, I am not concerned. 
 In the time of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, as evidence 
 conclusively proves, expensive scener}' was provided for 
 masques. So far as regards a stage-play, it was first 
 used by Davenant. Dryden, more than once, bears 
 testimony to the introduction of scenes by Davenant, 
 and Corey, in "The Generous Enemies," 1A72, speaking 
 of the former stage, says : — 
 
 " Coarse hangings then, instead of scenes were worn, 
 And Kidderminster did the stage adorn." 
 In an address to the reader, which appears in the 
 first edition of the original piece, and is omitted from 
 subsequent editions, Davenant apologises for the 
 shortcomings of his scenery, advancing in excuse the 
 smallness of the room to which he was confined. The 
 following passage is striking, in more ways than one : — 
 " It has been often wisht that our Scenes (we having 
 oblig'd ourselves to the variety of five changes, accord- 
 ing to the Ancient Dramatic distinctions made for 
 time), had not been confined to eleven foot in height, 
 and about fifteen in depth, including the places of 
 passage reserv'd for the Musick. This is so narrow an 
 allowance for the fleet of Solyman the Magnificent, his 
 army, the Island of Rhodes, and the varieties attending 
 the Siege of the City, that I fear you will think we 
 invite you to such a contracted trifle as that of the 
 Caesars carved upon a nut." 
 A little lower l:o C(Mitinucs : 
 
 " We conceive it will not be unacceptable to you if 
 we recompense the narrowness of the Room, by con- 
 taining in it so nujch as could be conveniently acconi- 
 
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EDITOR S PREFACE. XXI 
 
 plisht by Art and Industry : which will not be doubted 
 in the Scenes, by those who can judge of that kind of 
 Illustration, and know the excellency of Mr. John Web, 
 who design'd and order'd it." 
 
 Here then is the first mention of the scene-painter and 
 machinist, the predecessor of the Stanfields and Bever- 
 leys, of a later period. 
 
 Even now, the list of claims upon attention of " The 
 Siege of Rhodes" is not explained. When subsequently, 
 Davenant removed it to the Cockpit, and gave it with 
 regular company and scenic accessories less limited by 
 space, he announced it as a play. As at first given, 
 with recitative and song ; he spoke of it, as has been 
 said, as an opera. As such, it was the beginning of 
 opera in England. 
 
 Dryden, in a brief disquisition upon operas, 
 prefixed to his " Albion and Albanius," deals with the 
 establishment of English opera, and a preface to " The 
 Fairy Queen," an adaptation of " The I^Iidsummer 
 Nights' Dream," with music by Purcell, 1692, says "that 
 Sir WilHam D'Avenant's * Siege of Rhodes ' was the 
 first opera we ever had in England, no man can deny ; 
 and is indeed a perfect opera, there being this dif- 
 ference only between an opera and a tragedy, that the 
 one is a story sung with proper action, the other spoken. 
 And he must be a very ignorant player, who knows not 
 there is a musical cadence in speaking • and that a man 
 may as well speak out of tune as sing out of tune." 
 
 ** The Siege of Rhodes " may then claim, as has been 
 said, to be historically, the most interesting English play. 
 Coming after an entertainmentwhich cannot by any stretch 
 be called dramatic, it marks the re-establishment of the 
 theatre after Puritan rule ; it is the first opera ever given 
 in this country ; it introduces the first English actress who 
 
xxii editor's preface. 
 
 ever chaunted (not spoke), on the English stage ; it 
 exhibits the first scenery ever employed in the case of a 
 regular dramatic production, not being a miracle play 
 or a masque, and it names the first provider of scenery 
 for a work of this class, as distinguished again from the 
 masque, in which, at a much earlier date, elaborate 
 decorations were employed. 
 
 This information is principally supplemental to that of 
 Downes, who has little to say concerning anything that 
 took place in connection with theatrical affairs before 
 the period of 1662, when he joined as prompter the 
 company of Sir William Davenant, at his theatre, Lin- 
 coln's Inn Fields. That Downes was of a meek, and 
 probably indolent nature, is suggested by the story he 
 tells of himself (p. 34), how on the opening day of the 
 theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, being on the opening 
 day of the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields being to act 
 Haly in " The Siege of Rhodes," " the King, Duke ot 
 York, and all the Nobility in the House, and the first 
 time the King was in a Publick Theatre, the sight of 
 that August presence spoil'd me for an Actor too." 
 
 In no respect, however, can Downes be regarded as 
 superfluously scrupulous. On matters concerning the 
 theatre under his own immcdiite supervision he is 
 moderately accurate. In respect of the other house the 
 Theatre Royal, subs quently known as Drury Lane, he 
 is not always trustworthy. The annotations in the copy 
 of Davies, from which the present reprint is taken, con- 
 sist of corrections as well as of additions. Neither 
 Davies, nor indeed, Waldron, to whom the publication 
 of his notes is due, is much mine .Tciurate than 
 Downes. Accuracy in the jieriod in which Davies and 
 Waldron wrote was less i)rized than it has since become, 
 
editor's preface. xxiii 
 
 and there are very few particulars in early theatrical 
 works on which complete reliance can be placed. 
 
 Genest even, who wrote a century later than Waldron, 
 and had access to materials which were not open to his 
 predecessors is, as has been seen, not impeccable. So 
 valuable however, is his work, and in the main, so 
 trustworthy, no student of theatrical literature would 
 press unduly upon the few shortcomings to be found in 
 his important and serviceable book. 
 
 Thanks to the great kindness of Mr. Robert "^V. Lowe, 
 an enthusiast in all stage matters, and author of a biblio 
 graphy of theatrical works — which I trust will shortly see 
 the hght — I am able to indicate the cases of error 
 detected by Genest in Waldron's re-publication of the 
 " Roscius Anglicanus," and to point out some inaccuracies 
 in the original. 
 
 At pages 2 and 3, Downes says, "Note, these following 
 came into the Company some few Years after : Mrs. 
 Boutel, Mrs. Ellin Gwin, Mrs. James, Mrs. Rebecca Mar- 
 shall, Mrs. Rutter, Mrs. Verjuice, Mrs. Knight." Those 
 who turn to the pages on which these names appear w\\\ see 
 it is impossible to tell whether Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. 
 Rutter are intended to be on the list of those who came 
 later or earlier. Nor does the correction which Downes 
 supplies in the errata do much to clear matters. Con- 
 cerning this, Genest, Vol. I., page 34, says, " Downes is 
 incorrect with regard to Mrs. Boutell, she was certainly 
 on the stage in 1663 or 1664." Her name indeed, 
 appears as Estifania in " Rule a Wife and Have a Wife," 
 by Beaumont and Fletcher, the assumed date of produc- 
 tion of which is 1663 or 1664. 
 
 On page 3, Downes speaks of the opening on Thurs- 
 day in Easter Week, "being on the 8/// Day of Aprils 
 1663," of the New Theatre in Drury-Lane. Apropos of 
 
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xxiv editor's preface. 
 
 this, Genest says, Vol. I., p. 43, " it was not so called 
 originally — the usual appellation of it was the Theatre 
 Royal simply," and he adds instances of its being called 
 "the King's Theatre in Covent Garden." Genest is 
 here a little hypercritical. The house stood on the 
 exact site now occupied by Drury Lane theatre. 
 Downes does not, moreover, call it Drury Lane theatre, 
 but the new theatre in Drury-Lane, and this it was. 
 
 The statement of Downes, p. 17, that Rhodes "fitted 
 up a House then for Acting, call'd the Cock-Pit in 
 Drury Lane," Genest challenges, stating that " Downes 
 seems to have copied Wright (Historia Histrionica), and 
 they are probably both WTong — it is certain, from 
 Pepys, that the Old Actors were in possession of the 
 Cocl^it, in August, 1660 — and that Rhodes' Company 
 were acting at White Friars (or Salisbury Court, as it is 
 more usually called), in March, 1661," Vol. I., p. 30. 
 
 It seems certain that Davenant occupied both 
 theatres, playing in 1658, at the Cock-pit where he 
 produced his " Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru," and 
 on Nov. 15th, 1660, removing to Salisbury Court. 
 
 The assertion, p. 20, that Sir William Davenant " in 
 Spring, 1662, Open'd his House" is disputed by Genest, 
 who (Vol. L, p. 38), says, " It appears from Pepys that 
 Davenant began to act in the last week of June, 1661." 
 There is some confusion here, and Downes is apparently 
 wrong in more than one respect. He thus states that 
 the rehearsals took place in The Apothecaries' Hall. 
 Now, according to Cunningham (Hand-Book to Lon- 
 don) the Apothecaries' Hall was not erected until 1670, 
 /. e., eight years later than the time mentioned. There 
 appears, however, from a Latin inscription standing over 
 the inner side of the Gateway leading to the Court- Yard, 
 to have been in 1633, on same .spot a building, en- 
 
EDITOR S PREFACE. XXV 
 
 titled Cobham House, belonging to Lady Howard of 
 Effingham, which was totally destroyed in the great fire. 
 To this, which seems to have been devoted to the same 
 purpose as the present building, Downes assumably refers. 
 The difi'erence between Downes and Pepys is not easy 
 to explain. The theory that Sir William Davenant's 
 " opera," to which, as the name of the theatre, Pepys 
 frequently refers, was some other house than Lincoln's 
 Fields, is almost easier of acceptance than the belief 
 that Downes is in error in matters of such importance as 
 his own first engagement and appearance. 
 
 " After this the Company Reviv'd Three Comedies of 
 Mr. Sherly's," p. 27. Here follow the names of four 
 comedies. Waldron, in the reprint, alters three into 
 four. The four comedies named are not, however, by 
 Shirley, the last, " Woman's a Weathercock," being by 
 Nash and Field. Downes's omission arises, as Genest 
 (Vol. i., p. 78), points out, through "not inserting, and 
 also after the School of Complements," the third piece. 
 Waldron's mistake is, in its way, worse than any of which 
 Downes is guilty. 
 
 " King Henry the 5//;, wrote by the Earl of Orrery," 
 p. 27. This play, Genest (Vol. i., p. 53) points out, was 
 first performed Aug. 13, 1664, and not as Downes 
 implies, rather than asserts, in 1667. 
 
 The erroneous punctuation of Downes, p. 29, is un- 
 corrected by Waldron. A portion of the page should, 
 Genest shews, (Vol. i., p, 36), read thus : " This Play 
 had wonderfull Success, being Acted 1 2 Days together. 
 When our Company were Commanded to Dover in 
 May, 1670, the King with all his Court, meeting his 
 Sister, the Dutchess of Orleans there, this Comedy and 
 Sir Solomon Single, pleas'd Madain the Dutchess, and 
 the whole Court extremely." 
 
 ' ^ '■■w wy f .-jj' ?:.e -it ' fa ) mw » iw« » u vi 
 
XXVI EDITORS PREFACE. 
 
 At page 39, Do.vnes speaks of the " Sallary " of 
 Hart as " 40 Shillings a Week to the Day of his 
 Death." On this, Genest says (Vol. I., p. 375), " Hart 
 did not act after the Union, on account of those infirmi- 
 ties which obliged him to leave the stage — he received a 
 salary of 30 shillings a week to the day of his death, 
 according to agreement — Downes says 40, but this 
 seems a mistake." According to the Memorandum, 
 /■ dated Oct. 14, 1681, between Dr. Charles Daveaant, 
 Thomas Betterton, Gent., and William Smith, Gent., 
 of the one part, and Charles Hart, Gent., and Edward 
 Kynaston, Gent., on the other part, which formed the 
 basis of the famous Union of the two patents. Hart and 
 Kynaston both made over the title they had " to Six and 
 Three Pence a-piece for every Day there shall be any 
 Playing at the King's theatre."'* This at the rate of 
 six representations a week, would make thirty-sevea 
 shillings and sixpence a week. What is the justification 
 for Genest's contradiction is not apparent. 
 
 Very far from exhausting the inaccuracies of Waldron's 
 reprint are the instances advanced by Genest. In 
 dealing with the first of the errata printed on the verso 
 of the title page, ^^ Page 2, Read Reeves /t^r Knight," 
 Waldron, assumes that the correction applies to the name 
 of Reeves, who appears in the list of actors, and therefore 
 holds that the erratum should be Head Knight /or 
 Reeves. This is a bad shot. The printer fell into the 
 same blunder and subtituted page 2 for page 3, where lor 
 Mrs. Knight should be read Mrs. Reeves. The name 
 of Reeves appears, page 12, opposite Ascanio, just the 
 character to be assigned a boy, and that of Mrs. Reeves 
 is also in the list. No actor of the name ol Knight is 
 however encountered, and the Mrs. Knight wiiom 
 • Life of Mr. Thi)in.is licUtilon, 17 10, p. 9. 
 
EDITORS PREFACE. XXVU 
 
 Waldron subsequently mentions, was a singer and a 
 favourite of Charles II., who is said to have used her for 
 dis-honourable purposes, but is not known as an actress. 
 Waldron seems afterwards, to have had some justifiable 
 doubts as to the value of his own suggested emendation. 
 
 Page 26, Waldron notices that in the third line of the 
 page the name of a character played by Mr, Young, is 
 omitted. The character in question is that of the 
 Cardinal. 
 
 Upon the account of " Sir Martin Marral," p. 28, Wal- 
 dron has the note '* This passage is involved in such 
 impenetrable darkness, that, in despair of being able to 
 throw light on it, I leave it in its original obscurity." 
 Obscure the passage undoubtedly is 3 what Downes 
 means, however, seems intelligible. " All the parts 
 being very just and exactly perform'd, 'specially Sir 
 Martin and his Man." " Mr. Smitla and several others 
 since have come very near him" — />., Harris as Sir 
 Martin's Man — " but none equalled " him, " nor yet Mr. 
 Nokes in Sir Martin." Style is not Downes's strong 
 point. It is conceivable even that Downes originally 
 wrote 'specially Sir Martin his Man, or Sir Martin's 
 Man, which would remove all ambiguity. Dryden's *'Sir 
 Martin Mar-all " is a version of " L'Etourdi " of Moliere, 
 and Warner, otherwise Sir Martin's Man, answers to the 
 character of Mascarille in that play, a character so im- 
 portant that in the hands of M. Coquelin ain'e^ it is the 
 most important in a modern revival at the Coraedie 
 Frangaise. Harris distinguished himself greatly by per- 
 formances of this kind, and was admitted to the intimacy 
 not only of the licentious wits of the town — see what 
 Pepys says, May 30th, 1668, of the roguish (!) proceed- 
 ings with my Lady Bennett and the ladies — but of Pepys 
 himself and Dryden. His sense of his importance was 
 
XXVIU EDITORS PREFACE. 
 
 not less than that of subsequent actors. Under the date 
 July 22nd, 1663, Pepys says " Wotten tells me the 
 reason of Harris's going from Sir William Davenant's 
 house is, that he grew very proud; and demanded ^20 
 for himself extraordinary, more than Betterton or any 
 body else, upon every new play, and ;j{^io upon every 
 revive, which with other things, Sir W. Davenant would 
 not give him, and so he swore he would never act there 
 more, in expectation of being received at the other 
 House ; but the King will not suffer it, upon Sir W. 
 Davenant's desire that he would not, for then he might 
 shut up house, and that is true. He tells me that his 
 going is at present a great loss to the House, and that 
 he fears he hath a stipend from the other House 
 privately. He tells me that the fellow grew very proud 
 of late, the King, and every body else, cr)'ing him up so 
 high, and that above Betteiton, he being a more ayery 
 man, as he is indeed." The praise of Downes is accord- 
 ingly justified. 
 
 In the note (page 38) Downes speaks of Lee's play, 
 " The Prince of Cleve." For this name should be read 
 " The Princess of Cleve." This error is contradicted 
 by Davies or Waldron. 
 
 In the copy from which this reprint is executed, the 
 lines, p. 40, apropos of *' Valenlinian," "and the vast 
 interest the Author made in Town," are struck through 
 by Davies. Waldron, with customary infelicity, snjiplies 
 the following note. " Mr. Davics's MS. directs, on what 
 authority I know not, * and the vast interest t/u author 
 made in town* to be intirely left out. I think it should 
 on no account be omitted ; as it serves to shew, that tho' 
 indifferent Pieces have been brought on the Stage, and 
 rendered fashionable by the influence of Authors of rank, 
 in our days ; to the exclusion or ilcjircssion, of writers of 
 
editor's preface. xxix 
 
 perhaps more merit, and certainly less interest ; it is no 
 new artifice, but a stale trick produced by dignified 
 authors above a century ago." So far as the present 
 case is concerned, the indignant moralising of Waldron 
 is so much waste bredth. Downes was once more in 
 error, and the correction of Davies was entirely justified. 
 Valentinian was produced at the Theatre Royal in 1684, 
 and Lord Rochester died four years previously. Unless 
 his ghost revisited " the glimpses of the moon " to look 
 after his new play, which was only an adaptation ; the 
 remarks of Downes are futile. What the prompter in- 
 tended possibly, to say was, that the vast interest the 
 friends of the author made in town, contributed to the 
 success of the play. This, however, is not too probable, 
 since the friends of a man deceased some four years are 
 not often busy in his behalf. 
 
 The obscurity of the note on page 40 provokes 
 from Waldron a pardonable growl. What Downes 
 assumably means to say is, that " Mr. Griffin so excell'd 
 in Surly, Sir Edward Belfond, the Plain Dealer, none 
 succeeding in the two former characters have Equalled 
 him [nor any] except his Predecessor, Mr. Hart, in the 
 last." The insertion of the two words between brackets 
 gives the sentence an intelligible meaning. 
 
 Downes's note to " The True Widow," Sir Anthony 
 Lone (should be Love), etc., p. 41, is obscure. Waldron, 
 following Davies, strikes out the word " which." This 
 adds to the intelligibility of the sentence, but detracts 
 from its accuracy, since more than one of the plays men- 
 tioned was distinctly successful. 
 
 These suggestions, for the best of which, as before 
 stated, I am indebted to !Mr. Robert W. Lowe, meet some 
 only of the difficulties in the '' Roscius Anglicanus." To 
 point out minor slips and to indicate all the suggestions 
 
XXX EDITOR .S PREFACE. 
 
 of Davies and Waldron would extend this preface beyond 
 reasonable bounds. On the matters which came under 
 his own personal cognisance Downes, as has been said, 
 is a fairly trustworthy authority ; on those outside his 
 immediate ken, on events that is that took place before 
 he joined Sir William Davenant's company, or that hap- 
 pened at the rival house, the Theatre Royal, he is subject 
 to frequent correction. For the casts with which plays 
 were first given, and for the period of production, he is in 
 many cases the only existing authority and many curious 
 particulars he preserves are nowhere else to be found. A 
 completely annotated edition of the Rosicus Anglicanus, 
 such as Davies and Waldron dreamed of supplying, 
 would be in fact a history of the revival of the stage. 
 
 While engaged in compiling this preface I have met 
 with a second copy of the original edition of the '•' Ros- 
 cius Anglicanus." This interesting volume, like the copy 
 from which the reprint is taken, is interleaved and 
 contains MS. corrections by Isaac Reed, one of three 
 successive proprietors, consisting of Isaac Reed, Peter 
 Cunningham, and the elder Charles Mathews. Some of 
 these deserve to be preserved. 
 
 Reed (whose handwriting I have compared with the MS. 
 of his " Notitia Dramatica") says on one of the blank preli- 
 minary pages. " At Mr. Henderson's Sale a Copy of this 
 Pamphlet with', the Preface was bought by Mr. Malone for 
 j(^i. c,s. od." Fronting page i is written, " Killegrews 
 Patent, dated 25 April, 14 Car. 2, 16C.'. Davenant's isth 
 January, 14 Car. 2, 1662." A propos to the mention of 
 \\'intersel (p. 2), is as follows, " Wm. Wintershul, (Kc) tJ 
 the Rehearsal), was an excellent judicious .\ctor and the 
 best Inslrucli of others." He died July, 1679. Opposite 
 
 ^ 
 
EDITOR S PREFACE. XXXI 
 
 Mrs. Long (p. 20) is the note, " She was Mistress to the 
 Duke of Richmond, (See Dunois — Memoirs of the Court 
 of England, 1708, p. 40, P. 11)." At p. 28 the mistake 
 of DoAvnes, who calls a play by the Earl of Orrery, 
 " Mr. Anthony Gasman," instead of " Mr. Anthony," is 
 corrected, and it is stated of " Sir Martin Marrall " that 
 it is "entered in the Books of the Stationers' Com- 
 pany as written by the Duke of Newcastle." Page 31, 
 the commentator extracts from " Reliquiae Baxterianse," 
 Fo. 1696, P. 89, Part 3, a paragraph of some interest. 
 " This Year (167 1) a new Playhouse being built on Salis- 
 bury Court in Fleet-street called the Duke of York's the 
 Lord Mayor (as is said) desired of the King, that it might 
 not be, the youth of the City being already so corrupted 
 by sensual pleasures ; but he obtained not his desire. 
 And this, Janry, 167 1, the King's Play-house in Drury 
 Lane took fire and was burnt down but not alone, for 
 about 50 or 60 houses adjoining, by fire and blowing up 
 accompanied it." 
 
 Opposite the following page (32) are three notes, 
 No. I. draws attention to the fact that " From the Preface 
 to The Miser by Shadvvell, it appears that Play was the 
 last acted at the King's Theatre in Cov : Garden before 
 the fatal fire there, That Play was published 4tOj 1672." 
 Note 2 points out from Graham's " School of English 
 Painting," p. 398, that Robert Aggas commonly called An- 
 gus, "a. good landscape painter," painted "many scenes for 
 the play-house in Cov. Garden." According to Walpole's 
 "Anecdotes of Painting," Vol. i, p. 157, Robert Aggas 
 died in 1679. After stating this, the note continues " but 
 I know not what the Author I quote means by a Play- 
 house in Cov : Garden before the year 1679. I suppose it 
 shod, be the theatre in Dorset Gardens. From the above 
 preface to Shadwell's Play it seems as though Graham was 
 
XXXII EDITORS PREFACE. 
 
 right, and Mr. Walpole's Conjecture ill founded." Note 
 3, " I also find an Opera called Ariadne acted at the 
 Theatre Royal, Cov : Garden, 4th, 167I." 
 
 Page 33, opposite the words, Master of Art in Cambridge, 
 is given the name " Wm. Arrowsmith," who is mentioned 
 in the ** Biographia Dramatica," for which Isaac Reed was 
 greatly responsible, as the supposed author. 
 
 Page 34, in reference to Lee's method of quitting the 
 stage are the following observations : — " Lee, however, 
 seems not entirely to have left the stage. In the 
 Dramatis Personje to Fatal jealousies printed in the 
 next year, 1673, 4to, I find the name of Nath. Leigh 
 performing the part of a Captain of the Guards. This 
 
 also was acted at the Duke's Theatre No 
 
 Lee's name is to be seen opposite to the character of 
 Duncan in the printed Copies of Macbeth." 
 
 P. 36. A note to Don Carlos, says, " Booth in a 
 letter to Aaron Hill says 'Mr. Betterton observed to me 
 many years ago that Don Carlos succeeded much better 
 than Venice preser\'ed, or the Orphan, and was infinitely 
 more applauded and followed for many years." " 1678, 
 Friendship in Fashion acted ; Nell Gwin performed in 
 it. A mistake, it was certainly another Mrs. G." 
 
 P. 37. "Oedipus, King of Thebes," of this it is said, 
 " In this particular Downes must certainly be mistaken, 
 Dryden in his Vindication of the Duke of Guise says he 
 wrote the ist and 3rd acts and drew the Scenery of the 
 whole Play. P. 42, \'indn." 
 
 P. 40. The mistake of Downes concerning Lord 
 Rochester previously mentioned is corrected. 
 
 P. 43. Opposite " I'he Prophetess," are the words, 
 " Langbaine who in general is tolerably accurate, ascribes 
 this Alteration to Dryden, but on that point he is most 
 likely to be mistaken." 
 
 .1. .1 .IHP 
 
editor's pre|>J«3^^^ xxxiii 
 
 P. 43. At bottom of page appears, " From this Period 
 the Theatre in Dorset Garden became deserted. In 1698 v^ 
 
 a Lottery was drawn in it as I learn from the title of a 
 Pamphlet called 'The Wheel of Fortune, or Nothing 
 for a Penny. Being Remarks on the drawing of the 
 Penny Lottery at the Theatre Royal in Dorset Garden 
 wth. the characters of some of the honourable Trustees 
 and all due acknowledgm^ to his Honour the Under- 
 taker. Written by a Person who was cursed mad he 
 had not the;^T,ooo lot, 4to, 1698.'" 
 
 At the close are references to the " Reliquiae Baxteri- 
 anse " and Camden's "Annals/' with regard to accidents 
 at theatres and to Dryden, S, propos to the opening of 
 Drury Lane House, 26th March, 1674. 
 
 On a following page is another note of interest in the 
 shape of an 
 
 " Extract from a MS. by Oldys, a Letter to the Right 
 Honble. Sr, Richard Brocas Lord Mayor of London By 
 a Citizen, P. 32, 8vo, 1730. 
 
 " This is written against the pernicious consequences 
 of tolerating the new erected Playhouse in Goodmans 
 Fields. The Author in P. 21 asserts and produces 
 particulars to prove it that upon the lowest calculation 
 this single Playhouse costs the Kingdom a great deal 
 above Three Hundred Thousand Founds a year by the 
 loss that is sustained in the work and labour of the 
 Artificers and other Spectators that fill it." 
 
 " This was the Theatre which Islx. Thomas Odell by 
 a Licence from the Lord-Chamberlain was Master of 
 and I have heard he cleared or got an Hundred Pounds 
 a Week in it till the City got him silenced or expelled 
 though I think there has been playing there under 
 Giffard and others ever since Mr. Odell who died in 
 May, 1 749, has written a Discourse upon his hardships 
 
XXXIV 
 
 EDITOR S PREFACE. 
 
 / 
 
 sufferings and losses on that occasion wch I have seen 
 in MSS." 
 
 As the following casts mentioned before differ in some 
 respects from any assigned the respective plays in Genest 
 they are given. The first and second occur opposite 
 P3ge 5> the third opposite page 36. The spelling of the 
 MSS, is followed. 
 •' The Cast of A King and no King as acfled at the 
 
 Theatre Royal, 4to, 1676. 
 
 Arbaces, 
 
 Tygranes, 
 
 Gobrias, 
 
 Bacurius, 
 
 Mardonius, 
 
 Bessus, 
 
 Lygones, 
 
 Mr 
 Mr 
 
 Mr 
 Mr 
 Mr. 
 
 Two Swordmen, 
 
 Arane, 
 
 Panthea, 
 
 Spaconia, 
 
 Othello at the same Theatre, 
 
 Hart. 
 Kynaflon. 
 Winterfhall. 
 Lydal. 
 Mohun. 
 Mr. Lacy or Mr. 
 Mr. Cartwright. 
 ( Mr. Watson. 
 ( Mr. Haynes. 
 Mrs. Corey. 
 Mrs. Cox. 
 Mrs. Marfhall. 
 
 Shottrell. 
 
 Duke, 
 
 Brabantio, 
 
 Gratiano, 
 
 Lodovico, 
 
 Othello, 
 
 Cafsiio, 
 
 lago, 
 
 Roderigo, 
 
 Montano, 
 
 Clown, 
 
 Desdemona, 
 
 Emilia, 
 
 Bianca, 
 
 4to, 1687. 
 
 Ur. Lydal. 
 Mr. Cartwright 
 Mr. Griffin. 
 Mr. Harris. 
 Mr. Hart. 
 Mr. Kynaflon. 
 Mr. Mohun. 
 Mr. Beeston. 
 Mr. Watson. 
 Mr. Haynes, 
 Mrs. Cox. 
 INIrs. Rulter. 
 Mrs. James. 
 
 Ferdinand, 
 Cardinal, 
 Antonio, 
 Delio, 
 
 Cast of The Duchefs of Malfcy in 1678. ^ 
 
 Mr. 
 Mr. 
 Mr. 
 Mr. 
 
 Harris. 
 Young. 
 Smith. 
 Medbonrn. 
 
 OH 
 
 »i 
 
editor's preface. 
 
 XXXV 
 
 Bofola, 
 
 Caflruchio, 
 
 Sylvio, 
 
 Pefcara, 
 
 Maletelle, 
 
 Roderigo, 
 
 Grisolan, 
 
 Dutchefs, 
 
 Cariola, 
 
 Old Lady, 
 
 Julia, 
 
 Mr. Betterton. 
 Mr. Richards 
 Mr. Cademan. 
 Mr. Norris. 
 Mr. Price. 
 Mr. Cogun. 
 Mr. Percival. • " 
 Mrs. Betterton. 
 Mrs. Norris. 
 Mrs. Ofbom. 
 Mrs. Shadwell." 
 
 As a document of interest to students of Stage History, 
 the Ordinance for the Suppression of Stage Plays is 
 reprinted in facsimile from a copy of the rare original in 
 the possession of Messrs. Jarvis and Son. 
 
Rofcius Anglicanus, 
 
 O R AN 
 
 HISTORICAL 
 
 REVIEW OF THE 
 
 STAGE: 
 
 After it had been Suppres'd by means 
 of the late Unhappy Civil War, be- 
 gun in 1 64 1, till the Time of King 
 Charles the lis Reftoration in May 
 1 660. Giving an Account of its Rife 
 again ; of the Time and Places the 
 Governours of both the Companies 
 firfl Ereded their Theatres. 
 
 The Names of the Principal A6lors and 
 AdrefTes, who Perform'd in the Chiefeft 
 Plays in each Houfe. With the Names 
 of the mofl- taking Plays ; and Modern 
 Poets. For the fpace of 46 Years, and 
 during the Reign of Three Kings, and 
 part of our prefent Sovereign Lady 
 Queen ANNE, from 1660, to 1706. 
 
 Non Audita 7iarto, fed Co7nperta. 
 
 Lo7idon, Printed and fold by H. Playford, at his Houfe in 
 Arundel- /ireet, near the Water-fide, 170S. 
 
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 |g«| 
 
ERRATA. 
 
 pA£;e 2, Read Reeves, /or Knight. P. 9 r. Cidaria, for Cidu- 
 ria. P. 19, line 33, r. Four for Three. P. 12, r. Aquilius, 
 for Aquitius. P. 28 litu 17, r. Moleire, y^r Moleiro. P. 31 /m^ 
 20, leave ou* John, am/ r. Wife of Mr. Antony Leigh. P. 35 lint 
 2, /mz/i? out was, between all cwd^ things. /*. 32, //'«; 1 5, r, AV 
 Symou Softhead, y&r Simeon Lofthead. 
 
TO THE 
 
 READER. 
 
 THE Editor of the enfuing Rela- 
 tion^ being long Converjant 
 with the Plays and AEiors of the Ori- 
 ginal Company^ under the Patent of 
 Sir William Davenant, at his Thea- 
 tre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, Opetid 
 there 1662. And as Book keeper and 
 Prompter^ con timid fo^ till October 
 1706. He Writing out all the Parts 
 in each Play ; and Attending every 
 Morning the AEiors Rehearfals^ and 
 their Performances in After noons; Em^ 
 holdens him to affirm^ he is not very 
 Errontous in his Relation, But as to 
 the AEiors of Drury-Lane Company^ 
 A 2 under 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 under Mr. Thomas Killigrew, he 
 having the Account froniMr . Charles 
 Booth fometimes Book-keeper there ; 
 If he a little Deviates, as to the Sue- 
 cejfftve Order, and exaSi time of their 
 Plays Performances, He begs Pardon 
 of the Reader, and Subfcribes hinfelf, 
 
 His very Humble Servant, 
 'John Downes. 
 
 Rofcius 
 
(O 
 
 Rofcius Anglicanus, 
 
 O R A N 
 HISTORICAL REVIEW 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 STAGE 
 
 IN the Reign of King Charles the Firft, 
 there were Six Play Houfes allow'd in 
 Town : The Black - Fryars Company, 
 His Majefty's Servants ; The Bull in St. John's- 
 fireet ; another in Salisbury Court ; another call'd 
 the Fortune ; another at the Globe ; and the Sixth 
 at the Cock-Pit in Drury-Lane ; all which con- 
 tinu'd Afting till the beginning of the faid Ci- 
 vil Wars. The fcattered Remnant of feveral 
 of thefe Houfes, upon King Charles's Reftoration, 
 Fram'd a Company who Ad:ed again at the 
 Bull, and Built them a New Houfe in Gibbon's 
 Tennis Court in Clare-Market ; in which Two 
 Places they continu'd Adling all 1660, 1661, 
 1662 and part of 1663. In this time they Built 
 them a New Theatre in Drury Lane : Mr. T'ho- 
 mas Killigrew gaining a Patent from the King in 
 
 B order 
 
 ssaaBaHi 
 
 m 
 
(> ) 
 
 order to Create them the King's Servants ; and 
 from that time, they call'd themfelves his Ma- 
 jefty's Company of Comedians in Drury-Lane. 
 
 Whofe Names were, viz. 
 
 Mr. Tfieophilus Bird. 
 
 Mr. Hart. 
 
 Mr. Mohun, 
 
 Mr. Lacy. 
 
 Mr. Burt. 
 
 Mr. Car tw right. 
 
 Mr. Clun. 
 
 Mr. Baxter. 
 
 Mr. Robert Shatterel. 
 Mr. IViUiam Shatterel. 
 Mr. Duke. 
 Mr. Hancock. 
 Mr, Kynafton. 
 Mr. Winterjel. 
 Mr. Bateman. 
 Mr. Blagden. 
 
 Note, thefe following came not into the Com- 
 pany, till after they had begun in Brury-Lane. 
 
 Mr. Hains. 
 Mr. Griffin. 
 Mr. Goodman, 
 Mr. Ly^^o//. 
 Mr. Charleton. 
 Mr. *S'/zfr/)'. 
 Mr. Beejion. 
 
 Thefe Four were Bred 
 up from Boys under the 
 MaRer ACTORS. 
 
 Mr. Bell. 
 Mr. Reeves. 
 Mr. Hughs. 
 Mr. Harris. 
 
 Women. 
 
 Mrs. Corey. 
 Mrs. y^//;/ Marjhall. 
 Mrs. Eaftland. 
 Mrs. Weaver, 
 Mrs. t//»/;/7/. 
 Mrs. A'w/>. 
 Mrs. Hughs. 
 
 NOT E, thefe follow- 
 in<j came into the Com- 
 j)any fomc few Years after. 
 
 Mrs. Boutel. 
 Mrs. Ellin Civin. 
 Mrs. James. 
 
 Mrs. Rebecca 
 
(3) 
 
 Mrs. Rebecca Marjliall. 
 Mrs. Rutter. 
 
 Mrs. Verjuice 
 Mrs. Knight. 
 
 The Company being thus Compleat, they 
 open'd the New Theatre in Drury-Lane, on 
 Thurfday in Rafter Week, being the 8//z, Day of 
 A'pril 1663, With the Humorous Lieutenant. 
 
 Note, this Comedy was A6led Twelve Days 
 Succeflively, 
 
 I. 
 
 The Humorous Lieutenant. 
 
 King, 
 
 Mr. Winterjel. 
 
 Demetrius, , 
 
 Mr. Hart. 
 
 Seleucus, 
 
 Mr. Burt. 
 
 Leontius, 
 
 Major Mohun. 
 
 Lieutenant, 
 
 Mr. Clun. 
 
 Celia, 
 
 Mr. Marjhal. 
 
 II. 
 
 Rule a Wife, and have a Wife. 
 
 Don Leon, 
 
 
 
 Major Mohun. 
 
 Don John Decaftrio, 
 
 
 Mr. Burt. 
 
 Michael Perez, 
 
 
 
 Mr. Hart. , 
 
 Cacafago, 
 
 
 
 Mr. Clun. 
 
 Margareta, 
 
 
 
 Mrs. Ann MarJhaU 
 
 Eftifania, 
 
 
 
 Mrs. Boutell. 
 
 
 
 III. 
 
 
 The Fox, 
 
 
 
 B 
 
 2 Volp 
 

 (. 
 
 o 
 
 Vol pone, 
 
 
 Major Mohun. 
 
 Mofca, 
 
 
 Mr. Hart. 
 
 Corbachio, 
 
 
 Mr. Cartwright 
 
 Voltore, 
 
 
 Mr. Shatter el. 
 
 Corvino, 
 
 
 Mr. Burt. 
 
 Sir Politique 
 Woud-be, 
 
 } 
 
 Mr. Lacy. 
 
 Peregrine, 
 
 
 Mr. Kynajion. 
 
 Lady Woud-be, 
 
 
 Mrs. Corey. 
 
 Celia, 
 
 
 Mrs. Marjhal. 
 
 IV. 
 The Silent Woman. 
 
 Morofe, 
 
 True-Wit, 
 
 Cleremont, 
 
 Dauphin, 
 
 Sir Amorous, 
 
 Sir John Daw. 
 
 Captain Otter, 
 
 Epicene, 
 
 Lady Haughty, 
 
 Mrs. Otter. 
 
 Mr. Cartwright. 
 Major Mohun. 
 Mr. Burt, 
 Mr. Kynajion. 
 Mr. Winterfel. 
 Mr. Shattered 
 Mr. Lacy, 
 Mrs. AO/^;). 
 Mrs. Rutter. 
 Mrs. Corey. 
 
 The Alchcmift. 
 
 Subtil, 
 
 Face, 
 
 Sir hip. Mammon, 
 
 Surly, 
 
 Ananias, 
 
 Mr. JVinterJel. 
 Major Mohun. 
 Mr. Cartwright. 
 Mr. /)'/^r/. 
 Mr. Lacy. 
 
 Wholefome 
 
Wholefome, 
 Dol. Common,' 
 Dame Plyant, 
 
 5 ) 
 
 Mr. Bateman. 
 Mrs. Corey. 
 Mrs, Rutter. 
 
 VI. 
 
 The Maids Tragedy. 
 
 King, _ 
 Melantius, 
 
 
 Mr. Winter/el. 
 Afajor Mohun. 
 
 Amintor, 
 
 
 Mr. Hart. 
 
 Calianax, 
 
 
 Mr. Shatterel. 
 
 Evadne, 
 
 
 Mrs. MarJhaL 
 
 Afpatia, 
 
 
 Mrs. BouteL 
 
 
 VII. 
 
 King 
 
 and no King. 
 
 Arbaces, 
 
 
 Mr. Hart. 
 
 Tygranes, 
 
 
 Mr. Burt. 
 
 Mardonius, 
 
 
 Major Mohun. 
 
 Gobrias, 
 
 Lygones, 
 
 BefTus, 
 
 
 Mr. Winterjel. 
 Mr. Cart-wright 
 Mr. Shotterel. 
 
 Arane, 
 Panthea. 
 
 
 Mrs. Corey. 
 Madam Gwin, 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Rollo, Duke of Normandy. 
 
 Rollo, 
 
 
 Mr. Hart, 
 
 Otto, 
 
 
 Mr. Kynajlon. 
 
 Aubrey, 
 
 
 Major Mohun. 
 
 
 B.^ 
 
 La Torch 
 
 •■T?! 9RimL tttt.- . .'. .:-'.-a-| 1 { *ViJm 
 

 ( 
 
 5) 
 
 La Torch, 
 
 
 Mr. Burt. 
 
 Dutchefs, 
 
 
 Mrs. Cory. 
 
 Edith, 
 
 
 Mrs. MarJhaL 
 
 X. 
 
 The Scornful Lady. 
 
 Elder Lovelefs, 
 
 Younger Lovelefs, 
 
 Welford, 
 
 Sir Roger, 
 
 The Lady, 
 
 Martha, 
 
 Abigail, 
 
 Mr. Burt. 
 Mr. Kynafton, 
 Mr. Hart. 
 Mr. Lacy. 
 Mrs. MarJhaL 
 Mrs. Rutter. 
 Mrs. Corey. 
 
 XI 
 
 The Elder Brother. 
 
 Charles, 
 
 Mr. Burt. 
 
 Euftace, 
 
 Mr. Kynajlon. 
 
 Their Father, 
 
 Mr. Loveday. 
 
 The Uncle, 
 
 Air. Gradivel. 
 
 Charles's Man, 
 
 Mr. Shotterel. 
 
 Lady, 
 
 Mrs. Rutter. 
 
 Lilia Bianca, 
 
 Mrs. Boutel. 
 
 X 
 
 IL 
 
 The Moor 
 
 of Ve?iice. 
 
 Brahantio, 
 
 Mr. Cartivright 
 
 Moor, 
 
 Mr. Burt. 
 
 Caflio, 
 
 Mr. Hart. 
 
 J ago 
 
Jago, 
 Roderigo, 
 Defdemona, 
 Emilia, 
 
 (7) 
 
 Major Mofiun. 
 Mr. Bee/ton. 
 Mrs. Hughs. 
 Mrs. Rutter. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 King Henry the Fourth. 
 
 King, 
 Prince, 
 
 Mr* Winter/el. 
 Mr. Burt. 
 
 Hotfpur, 
 
 Mr. Hart. 
 
 FalftaiF, 
 Poyns, 
 
 Mr. Cartwright, 
 Mr. Shotterel. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 The Maiden Queen. 
 
 Lyfimantes, 
 
 
 Mr. Burt. 
 
 Philocles, 
 
 
 Major Mohun. 
 
 Celadon, 
 
 
 Mr. Hart. 
 
 Queen, 
 
 
 Mrs. MarfJial. 
 
 Afteria, 
 
 
 Mr. Knep. 
 
 Florimef, 
 
 
 Mrs. Elen. Gwin. 
 
 Meliffa, 
 
 
 Mrs. Cory. 
 
 
 XV. 
 
 Mock 
 
 Aftrologer. 
 
 Don Alonzo, 
 
 
 Mr. Winter/el 
 
 Don Lopez, 
 
 
 Mr. Burt. 
 
 Belamy, 
 
 
 Major Mohun. 
 
 Wildblood, 
 
 
 Mr. Hart. 
 
 
 B 
 
 4 Maskal, 
 
Maskal, 
 Theodofia, 
 Jacyntha, 
 Aurelia, 
 
 (8 ) 
 
 Mr. Shatterel. 
 Mrs. Hughs. 
 Mrs. Elen. Gwin. 
 Mrs. ^uyn. 
 
 XV. 
 
 Julius Caefar. 
 
 Julius Caefar, 
 
 Caffius, 
 
 Brutus, 
 
 Anthony, 
 
 Calphurnia, 
 
 Portia, 
 
 Mr. Bell. 
 Major Mohun. 
 Mr. Hart. 
 Mr* Kynajton. 
 Mrs. Marjhal 
 Mrs. Corbet^ 
 
 Note, That thefe being their Principal Old 
 Stock Plays ; yet in this Interval from the 
 Day they begun, there were divers others Ac- 
 ted, 
 
 Cataline's Confpiracy. 
 The Merry Wives of JVindfor. 
 The Opportunity. 
 The Example. 
 The Jovial Crew. 
 Philafter. 
 The Cardinal. 
 As Bartholomezv-Fair. 
 The Chances. 
 The Widow. 
 The Devil's an Afs. 
 Argulus and Partheuia. 
 Every Man in his Humour. 
 Every Man out of Humour. 
 The Carnival. 
 Sejanus. The 
 
As 
 
 (9) 
 
 The Merry Devil of Edtnunton. 
 Vittoria Corumbona. 
 The Beggars Bufh. 
 The Tray tor. 
 Titus Andronicus, 
 
 Thefe behig Old Plays, were A6led but now 
 and then ; yet being well Perfurm'd, were ve- 
 ry Satisfadory to the Town. 
 
 Next follows the Plays, Writ by the 
 then Modern Poets ^ As, 
 
 The Indian Emperour. 
 
 Emperour, 
 Odmar, 
 
 Major Mohun. 
 Mx. Winter/el. 
 
 Guymor, 
 
 Prieft, 
 
 Cortez, 
 
 Mr. Kynafton. 
 Mx. Cartwright . 
 Mx. Hart. 
 
 Vafquez, 
 Ciduria, 
 
 Mx. Burt. 
 
 Mxs. Ellen Gwin 
 
 Almeria, 
 
 Mrs. Marjhall. 
 
 Plain I 
 
 Dealer. 
 
 Manly, 
 Freem.an, 
 Vtrnifh, 
 Novel, 
 
 Mr. Hart. 
 
 Mx. Kynafton. 
 Mx. Griffin. 
 Mx. Clark. 
 
 Major Oldfox, 
 Lord Plaufible, 
 
 Mx. Cartwright. 
 Mx. Haines. 
 
 Jerry 
 
Jerry Blackacre, 
 
 ( lo) 
 
 I Mr. Charleton. 
 
 Women, 
 
 Olivia, 
 
 Fidelia, 
 
 Eliza, 
 
 Widow Blackacre, 
 
 Mrs. Mar/hall. 
 Mrs. Boutel. 
 Mrs. Knep. 
 Mrs. Corey. 
 
 Tyrannick Love. 
 
 Maximin, 
 
 Porphyrius, 
 
 Placidius, 
 
 Nigrinus, 
 
 Amariel, 
 
 Charinus, 
 
 Valerius, 
 
 Albinus, 
 
 Apollonius, 
 
 EmprefSy 
 
 Valeria, 
 
 St, Catherine, 
 
 Nacur, 
 
 Damilcar, 
 
 Major Mohun. 
 Mr. Hart. 
 Mr. Kynajton. 
 Mr. Beef ton. 
 Mr. Bell. 
 Mr. Harris. 
 Mr. Lydal. 
 Mr. Littlewood. 
 Mr. Cartwright. 
 
 Women. 
 
 Mrs. Marjhall. 
 Mrs. Ellin Givin. 
 Mrs. Boutel. 
 Mrs. K)iep. 
 Mrs. James. 
 
 Aurcng Zcb. 
 
 Old Emperour, 
 Aureng Zeb his Son, 
 Moral the Younger Sony 
 Arimaiit, 
 
 Major Mohun. 
 Mr. Hart. 
 Mr. Kynajton. 
 Mr. W'interjel. 
 
 Women, 
 
( II ) 
 
 Women. 
 
 Nourmahal theEmpre/s^ 
 
 Indamora, 
 
 Melefinda, 
 
 Mrs. Marjhal. 
 iVfrs. Cox. 
 Mrs. Corbet. 
 
 Alexander the Great. 
 
 Alexander, 
 
 Clytus, 
 
 Lyfimachus, 
 
 Hepheftion, 
 
 CafTander, 
 
 Poly perch on. 
 
 Syfigambis, 
 Statyra, 
 Roxana, v/ 
 
 Mr. Hart. 
 Major Mohun. 
 Mr. Griffin. 
 Mr. Clark. 
 Mr. Kynafton. 
 Mr. Goodman. 
 
 Women. 
 
 Mrs. Corey. 
 Mrs. Boutell. 
 Mrs. MarJhalL 
 
 All for Love, or the World well Loft. 
 
 Marc Anthony, 
 Ventidius his General^ 
 Dolabella his Friend^ 
 AltxastheQ^ueensEnuchy 
 Seraphion, 
 
 Mr. Hart. 
 Major Mohun. 
 Mr. Clark. 
 Mr. Goodman. 
 Mr. Griffin. 
 
 Women. 
 
 Cleopatra, 
 Odlavia, 
 
 Mrs. Boutel. 
 Mrs. Corey, 
 
 The 
 
 ^.LU^,.JMil^ir- 
 
( 12) 
 
 The Affignation, or Love in a Nun. 
 nery. 
 
 Duke of Mantua, 
 
 Prince Frederick, 
 
 Aurelian, 
 
 Camillo his Friend, 
 
 Mario, 
 
 Afcanio Page, 
 
 Benito, 
 
 Major Mohun. 
 Mx. Kynafton. 
 Mr. Hart. 
 i Mx. Burt. 
 Mx. Carfujright . 
 Mx. Reeves. 
 Mx. Haines. 
 
 \^ 
 
 Women 
 
 Sophronia, 
 Lucretia, 
 
 Hyppolita a Nun, 
 Laura, 
 Violetta, 
 
 Afrs. James. 
 Mrs. Marjhal. 
 Mrs. Kyup. 
 Mrs. Boutel. 
 A/rs. Cox. 
 
 Mythridates King of Pontus. 
 
 Mythridates, 
 
 Ziphares, 
 
 Pharnaces, 
 
 Archelaus, 
 
 Pelopidus, 
 
 Aquitius, 
 
 Monima, 
 Semandra, 
 
 Major Mohun. 
 
 Mx. Hart. 
 
 Mx. Goodman. 
 
 Mx. Griffin. 
 \ Mx. Winterjel. 
 1 Mr. Clark. 
 
 Women. 
 
 I Mrs. Corbet. 
 Mrs. Boutel. 
 
 The 
 
( I 
 
 3) 
 
 The Deftru6lion of Jerusalem 
 
 Titus Vefpafian, 
 Phraartes, 
 
 Mr. Kyna/ton. 
 Mr. Hart. 
 
 Matthias high Prteft, 
 John, 
 
 Major Mohun, 
 Mr. Cartwright. 
 
 Women. 
 
 Clarona D. to Matthias, Mrs. Boutell. 
 
 Queen Berenice, | Afrs Marjhall. 
 
 Marriage Alamode. 
 
 Polydamus, 
 Leonidas, 
 
 Mr. WinterJeL 
 Mr, Kynajlon. 
 
 Harmogenes, 
 
 Mr. Cartwright. 
 
 Rhodophil, 
 Palamede, 
 
 Major Mohun. 
 Mr. Burt. 
 
 Women. 
 
 Palmira, 
 
 Mrs Cox. 
 
 Amathea, 
 
 Mrs James. 
 
 Doralice, 
 
 Mrs Mar/hall. 
 
 Melantha, 
 
 Mrs Boutell. 
 
 The Unhappy Favourite, or the Earl 
 of EJfex. 
 
 I'helEarl of Efiex, 
 'The^E. 0/ Southampton, 
 Lord Burleigh, 
 
 Mr. Clark. ' 
 Mr Griffin. 
 Major Mohun. 
 
 Women 
 
 Mib^ 
 
 ■^-'••*'^^^'' 
 
( 14 ) 
 Women. 
 
 Queen Elizabeth, 
 Countejs of Rutland, 
 Count ejs (?/Nottingham, 
 
 Mrs. Gwin. 
 Mrs. Cook. 
 Mrs. Corbet. 
 
 The Black Prince, 
 
 King Edward the 3^, 
 King John of France, 
 The Black Prince^ 
 Lord Delaware, 
 Count Gueielin, 
 Lord Latimer, 
 
 Major Mohun. 
 Mr. IVinterfel. 
 
 Kynaflon. 
 
 Hart. 
 Mr. Burt. 
 Mr. Cartwright. 
 
 Mr 
 
 Mr, 
 
 Women. 
 
 Alizia, 
 
 Plantagenet, 
 Cleorin, 
 
 Valeria Dijguis'd^ 
 A Lady, 
 
 Mrs. Gzvin. 
 Mrs. Marjhall. 
 Mrs. Corey. 
 F. Damport. 
 Betty Bamport. 
 
 The Conqueft of Granada, 2 Parts, 
 
 Mahomet Boabdelin 1 
 laji King (?/ Granada, j 
 Prince Abdalla, 
 Abdcmelech, 
 Abenamar, 
 Almanzcr, 
 
 h'crdinand A'. 0/ Spain, 
 Duke of Arcos. 
 
 Mr. Kynaflon, 
 
 ^^r. Lydal 
 Major Mohun. 
 Mr Cartwright. 
 Mr. Hart. 
 Mr. Lit tie wood. 
 Mr. Hell. 
 
 Women 
 
( 15 ) 
 Women. 
 
 Almahide, Q.. of Gran. 
 
 Lindaraxa, 
 
 Benzaida, 
 
 Efperanza, 
 
 Ifabella Q. of Spain, 
 
 Mrs. Ellen Gwin. 
 Mrs. Mar/hall. 
 Mrs. Boutell. 
 Mrs. Reeves. 
 Mrs. James. 
 
 Sophonisba, or Hanibal' s Overthrow. 
 
 Hannibal, 
 
 Major Mohun, 
 
 Maherbal, 
 
 Mr. Buri. 
 
 Bomilcar, 
 
 Mr. Winter/el. 
 
 Scinio, 
 
 Mr. Kynajion. 
 
 Lei ills, 
 
 Mr. Lydall. 
 
 MaffmifTa, 
 
 Mr. /:^^r/. 
 
 Maffina, 
 
 Mr. Clark. 
 
 Women. 
 
 Sophonisba, 
 Rofalnida, 
 
 Mrs. Cox. 
 Mrs. Bout el. 
 
 Note, All the foregoing, both Old and Mo- 
 dern Plays being the Principal in their Stock 
 and mofl- taking, yet, they Aded divers others, 
 which to t numerate in order, wou'd tire the 
 Patience of the Reader. As Country Wife ; 
 hove in a Wood ; St. James-Park; Amboina ; The 
 Cheats; Selindra; TheSurprizal; VeflalVirgin; 'The 
 Committee ; Love in a Maze ; The Rehearjal : In 
 which laft, Mr. Lacy., 
 
 For 
 
( >6) 
 
 Javcs, > 
 Biys, ) 
 
 For his Jiiji A^ing, all Q^ave him due Praije, 
 His Part in the Cheats, Jony Thump, Teg and B 
 In i/tefe Four Excelling ; The Court gave him tlie 
 
 And many others were Adled by the Old 
 Company at the Theatre Royal, from the time 
 they begun, till the Patent defcended to Mr. 
 Charles Killigrew, which in 1682, he join'd it to 
 Dr. Davenani's Patent, whofe Company Acfled 
 then in T>orJet Garden, which upon the Union, 
 were Created the King's Company : After 
 which, Mr. Hart Ad;ed no more, having a Pen- 
 fion to the Day of his Death, from the United 
 Company. 
 
 I mud not Omit to mention the Parts in fe- 
 veral Plays of fome of the Acftors ; wherein 
 they Excell'd in the Performance of them. Firji^ 
 Mr. Hart, in the Part of Arbaces, in King and 
 no King ; yimintor, in the Maids Tragedy ; O- 
 thello; Rollo; Brutus, in Julius Cd-Jar; Alexander ^ 
 towards the latter End of his Ading ; if he 
 Aded in any one of thefe but once in a Fort- 
 night, the Houfe was fill'd as at a New Play, 
 efpecially yllexander, he Adting that with fuch 
 Grandeur and Agreeable Majerty, That one of 
 the Court was pleas'd to Honour him with 
 this Commendation ; That Hart might Teach 
 any King on Earth how to Comport himfelf : 
 He was no lefs Inferior in Comedy ; as Afofca 
 in the Fox ; Don John in the Chances, IFiltiblood 
 in the Mock Aftrologer ; with fundry other 
 Parts. In all the Comedies and Tragedies, he 
 was conccrn'd he Perform'd with that Exa(5lncfs 
 and Perfedion, that not any of his Succeffors 
 have Equall'd him. 
 
 Major 
 
 fm'mmmmm'Kmmmk 
 
( 17 ) 
 
 Major Mohun^ he was Eminent for Volpone ; 
 Face in the Alchymifi ; Melantius in the Maids 
 Tragedy ; Mardonius, in King and no King ; 
 Caffius^ in Julius Cajar; Clytus m Alexander; Mi- 
 thridates, &c. An Eminent Poet feeing him 
 Ad: this laft, vented fuddenly this Saying ; Oh 
 Mohun,Mohun! 'ThoulittleMan ofMettle^ifljhould 
 Write aioo Plays,id PVritea P art for thy Mouth; 
 in fhortj in all his Parts, he was most Accurate 
 and Correal. 
 
 Mr. Wimerjel, was good in Tragedy, as well 
 as in Comedy, efpecially in Cokes in Bartholo- 
 mew Fair ; that the Famous Comedian Nokes 
 came in that part far fhort of him. 
 
 Then Mr. Burt, Shatterel^ Cartwright and fe- 
 veral other good Adlors, but to Particularize 
 their Commendations wou'd be too Tedious ; I 
 refer you therefore to the feveral Books, 
 their Names being there inferted. 
 
 Next follows an Account of the Rife and 
 Progreffion, of the Dukes Servants ; under the 
 Patent of Sir William Davenant who upon the 
 faid Junftion in 1682, remov'd to the Theatre 
 Royal in Drury-Lane, and Created the King's 
 Company. 
 
 In the Year 1659, General Alonk, Marching 
 then his Army out of Scotland to London. Mr. 
 Rhodes a Bookfeller being Wardrobe- Keeper 
 formerly ( as I am inform'd ) to King Charles 
 the Firft's, Company of Comedians in Black- 
 Friars ; getting a Licenfe from the then Go- 
 verning State, fitted up a Houfe then for A6ling 
 call'd the Cock-pit in Drury-Lane, and in a fhort 
 time Compleated his Company. 
 
 C Their 
 
 ^ 
 
 MinMNS^ 
 
( i8 ) 
 Their Names were, viz. 
 
 Mr. Better ton. 
 Mr. Sheppy. 
 Mr. Lovel. 
 Mr. Lillijlon. 
 Mr. Underhill, 
 Mr. 'Turner. 
 Mr. 'Dixon. 
 Robert Nokes. 
 
 Note, Thcfe fix commonly 
 A<ned Womcns Parts. 
 
 Mr. Kynafton. 
 James Nokes. 
 Mr. Angel. 
 l^Villiam Better ton. 
 Mr. Mofely. 
 Mr. Floid. 
 
 The Plays there AEied were^ 
 
 The Loyal Subjeft. 
 
 iWaid in the M\\\ 
 
 The Wild Goofe Chafe. 
 
 The Spanijh Curate. 
 
 The iVfad Lover. 
 
 Pericles, Prince of Tyre. 
 
 A Wife for a Month. 
 
 Rule Wife and have a Wife. 
 
 The Tamer Tam'd, 
 
 The Unfortunate Lovers. 
 
 ylglaura. 
 
 Changling. 
 
 Bondman. /FJrV/; divers others. 
 
 Mr. Betterton, being then but 22 Years Old, 
 was highly Applauded for his Ading in all 
 thefe Plays, but efpccially, For the Loyal Sub- 
 jc(5l ; The Mad Lover ; Pericles ; The liond- 
 man : Defores, in the Changling ; his \'oice 
 being then as Audibly ftron;^, full and Arti- 
 culate, as in the Prime of his Ading. 
 
 Mr. 
 
( 19 ) 
 
 Mr. Sheppy Performed 'Theodore in the Loyal 
 Subjed ; Duke Altophil, in the Unfortunate 
 Lovers ; Jfotus, in the Bondman, and feveral 
 other Parts very well ; But above all the Chang- 
 ling, with general Satisfacftion. 
 
 Mr. Kynajton A6led Artniope, in the Unfortu- 
 nate Lovers ; The Princefs in the Mad Lover ; 
 Aglaura ; Ifmenia, in the Afaid in the M'lW \ and 
 feveral other Womens Parts ; he being then ve- 
 ry Young made a Compleat Female Stage 
 Beauty, performing his Parts fo well, efpecial- 
 ly Arthiope and Aglaura. being Parts greatly 
 moving CompafTion and Pity ; that it has fince 
 been Difputable among the Judicious, whether 
 any Woman that fucceeded him fo Senfibly 
 touch'd the Audience as he. 
 
 Mr. James Nokes Aded firft, The Maid in the 
 Mill ; after him Mr. Angel ; Aminta in the fame . 
 ■ Play was Adled by Mr. William Better ton ( who 
 not long after was Drown 'd in Swimming at 
 IVallingford ) They A6led feveral other Womens 
 Parts in the faid Plays, very Acceptable to the 
 Audience: Mo/V/y and 7^/6'/^ commonly A6led 
 the Part of a Bawd and Whore. 
 
 In this Interim, Sir William Davenant gain'd 
 a Patent from the King, and Created Mr. Bet- 
 terton and all the Reft of Rhodes s Company, the 
 King's Servants ; who were Sworn by my Lord 
 Manchejter then Lord Chamberlain, to Serve 
 his Royal HIghnefs the Duke of Tork^ at the 
 Theatre in Lincoln'' s- Inn Fields. 
 
 Note, The three following, were yiew A5iors taken 
 in by Sir William, to Compleat the Company he had 
 from Mr Rhodes. 
 
 C 2 Mr. Harris 
 
 ■bMMttS^ia^ 
 
Mr. Harris. 
 Mr. Price. 
 
 ( 20) 
 
 Mr. Richards. 
 Mr. Blagden. 
 
 The Five following came not in till almost a 
 Year after they begun. 
 
 ]NJr. Smiih. 
 Mr. Sandford. 
 Mr. Medburn, 
 
 Mr. Toung. 
 Mr. Norris. 
 
 Sir William Dave7iant s Women Ac- 
 treffes were, 
 
 Note., Thefe Four being his Principal Adref- 
 fes, he Boarded them at his own Houfe. 
 
 Mrs. 'Davenport. 
 Mrs. Saunderjon. 
 
 Mrs. Ann Gihbs. 
 
 Mrs, Norris. 
 
 Mrs. Davies. 
 
 Mrs. Long. 
 
 Mrs. Ho/den. 
 
 Mrs. Jennings. 
 
 His Company being now Compleat, Sir 
 William in order to prepare Plays to Open his 
 Theatre, it being then a Building in Lincobis- 
 Inn Fields., His Company Rehears'd the Firft 
 and Second Part of the Siege of Rhodes ; and 
 the Wits at Pothecaries-Uall : And in Spring 
 1662, Open'd his Houfe with the faid Plays, 
 having new Scenes and Decorations, being the 
 firft that e're were Introduc'd in England. Mr. 
 Betterton., A(5tcd Soly-man the Magnificent ; 
 Mr. Harris, Alphonjo\ Vix. Lilli/lon,Villcriiist\i^ 
 Grand Mafter ; Mx Blagden the Admiral ; Mrs. 
 Davenport, Roxolana ; A/rs. Sander/on Ian the ; 
 
 All 
 
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 All Parts being Juftly and Excellently Per- 
 form'd ; it continu'd Adting 12 Days without 
 Interruption with great Applaufe. 
 
 The next was the Wits, a Comedy, Writ by 
 Sir William Davenant ; The Part of the Elder 
 Palatine, Perform 'd by Mr. Better ton ; The 
 Younger Palatine by Mr Harris , Sir Morgly 
 Thwack, by Mr. Under hill Lady Ample ^ by Afrs. 
 Davenport : All the other Parts being exaft- 
 ly Performed ; it continu'd 8 Days Ading Suc- 
 ceffively. 
 
 The Tragedy of Hamlet ; Hamlet being Per- 
 form'd by Mr. Betterton, Sir William (having {^.^rv 
 Mr. Taylor of the Black-Fryars Company Adl 
 it, who being Inftruded by the Author Mr. 
 Shakfepeur ) taught Mr. Betterton in every 
 Particle of it ; which by his exad: Perfor- 
 mance of it, gain'd him Efteem and Reputati- 
 on, Superlative to all other Plays Horatio by 
 Mr. Harris ; The King by Mr. Lilli/lon ; The 
 Ghoft by Mr. Richards, ( after by Mr. Medburn ) 
 Polonius by Mr. Lovel; Rojencrans by Mr.Dixon\ 
 Guilderjiern by Mr. Price ; i/l. Grave-maker, by 
 Mr. Under hill : The id, by Mr. D acres ; The 
 Queen, by Mrs. Davenport ; Ophelia, by Afrs. 
 Sander/on : No fucceeding Tragedy for feveral 
 Years got more Reputation, or Money to the 
 Company than this. 
 
 Love and Honour, wrote by Sir William Da- 
 venant : This Play was Richly C oath'd ; The 
 King giving Mr. Betterton his Coronation Suit, 
 in which, he A6led the Part of Prince Alva- 
 ro ; The Duke of York giving Mr. Harris his, 
 who did Prince Projpero ; And my Lord of Ox- 
 ford, gave Mr. Jojeph Price his, who did Lionel 
 C 3 the 
 
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 the Duke of Parma! s Son ; The Duke was Ac- 
 ted by Mr. Lillifton ; Evandra, by Mrs. Daven- 
 port, and all the other Parts being very well 
 done : The Play having a great run, Produ- 
 c'd to the Company great Gain and Eftimation 
 from the Town. 
 
 Romeo and Juliet^ Wrote by Mr. Shakespear : 
 Romeo, was Adled by Mr. Harris ; Mercutio, by 
 Mr. Betterton; Count Paris, by Mr. Price ; The 
 Fryar, by Mr. Richards ; Sajnpjon, by Mr. Sand- 
 ford', Gregory, by Mr. Underhill ; Juliet, by Mrs. 
 Saunderfon ; Count Paris's Wife,by Mrs, Ho/den. 
 
 Note, There being a Fight and Scuffle in this 
 Play, between the Houfe of Capulet, and Houfe 
 of Paris ; Mrs. Ho iden A6ting his Wife, enter'd 
 in a Hurry, Crying, O my Dear Count ! She In- 
 advertently left out, O, in the pronuntiation of 
 the Word Count ! giving it a Vehement Accent, 
 put the Houfe into fuch a Laughter, that Lon- 
 don Bridge at low Water was filence to it. 
 
 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, was made 
 fome time after into a Tragi-comedy, by Mr. 
 James Howard, he preferving Romeo and Juliet a- 
 live ; fo that when the Tragedy was Reviv'd a- 
 gain, 'twas Play'd Alternately, Tragical one 
 Day, and Tragicomical another ; for feveral 
 Days together. 
 
 The Adventures of five Hours, Wrote by the 
 Earl of Brisjlol, and Sir Samuel Tuke : This Play 
 being Cloath'd fo Excellently Fine in proper 
 Habits, and Aded fojuftly well. Mr. Better- 
 ton, Adling Don Henriq; Mr. Harris, Antonio ; 
 Mr. Toung, Octavio ; Mr. Under/it il, Diego; Mr. 
 Sandford, Ernejlo ; Mr. Smith, the Corrigidor ; 
 Mr.Price, Silvio; Mrs. Davenport, Camilla; Mrs. 
 
 Betterton, 
 
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 Betterton.Portia; Mrs. Long, Flora. It took Suc- 
 ceffively 13 Days together, no other Play In- 
 tervening, 
 
 Twelfth Night, Or what you will; Wrote 
 by My. Shake/pear, had mighty Succefs by its 
 well Performance : Sir Toby Belch, by Mr. Bet- 
 terton ; Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek, by Mr. Harris \ 
 Fool, by Mr. Underhill ; Maholio the Steward, 
 by Mr. Lovel ; Olivia, by Mrs. Ann Gihbs\ All 
 the Parts being juftly A6led Crown'd the Play. 
 Note,// was got uponpurpofetobe A£fedon'Twelfth 
 Night. 
 
 The Villain, Written by M2ipr Thomas Por- 
 ter ; this Play by its being well perform'd, had 
 Succefs extremly beyond the Company's Ex- 
 pediation. Mr.Betterton,A6\:mg Monjieur Brifac, 
 Mr. Harris, Monfieur Beanpre ; Governour, Mr. 
 Lillijlon; Bontefeu, Mr. Toung. 
 
 Maligni, the Villain ; Mr. Saunford, Coligni ; 
 the Scriveners Son, by that Inimitable Spright- 
 ly A6lor, Mr. Price ; ( efpecially in this part ) 
 Bellmont, by Mrs. Betterton : It Succeeded i o 
 Days with a full Houfe, to the laft, 
 
 The Rivals, A Play, Wrote by Sir William 
 Davenant ; having a very Fine Interlude in it, 
 of Vocal and Inftrumental Mufick, mixt with 
 very Diverting Dances ; Mr. Price introducing 
 the Dancing, by a fhort Comical Prologue, 
 gain'd him an Univerfal Applaufe of the Town 
 The Part of Theocles, was done by Mr. Harris ; 
 Philander, by Mr. Betterton ; Cunopes the Jailor, 
 by Mr. Underhill : And all the Womens Parts 
 admirably Aded ; chiefly Celia, a Sheperdefs 
 being Mad for Love ; efpecially in Singing fe- 
 veral Wild and Mad Songs 
 
 C 4 My 
 
 -^ ■• 
 
 Muioaammm 
 
(24) 
 
 My Lodging it is on the Cold Ground^ &c. 
 She perform'd that fo Charmingly, that not 
 long after, it Rais'd her from her Bed on 
 the Cold Ground, to a Bed Royal. The Play 
 by the Excellent performance ; lafted uninter- 
 ruptly Nine Days, with a full Audience. 
 
 King Henry the 8///, This Play, by Order of 
 Sir William Davenant, was all new Cloath'd in 
 proper Habits : The King's was new, all the 
 Lords, the Cardinals, the Bifhops, the Do6tors, 
 Pro6tors, Lawyers, Tip-ftaves, new Scenes : 
 The part of the King was fo right and juftly 
 done by Mr. Betterton, he being Inftrucfted in it 
 by Sir IVilliam, who had it from Old Mr. Lowen, 
 that had his Inftrudions from Mr. Shake/pear 
 himfelf, that Idare and will aver, none can, 
 or will come near him in this Age, in the per- 
 formance of that part : Mr. Harris's, performance 
 of Cardinal IVolfey, was little Inferior to that, 
 he doing it with fuch juft State, Port and 
 Mein, that I dare affirm, none hitherto has E- 
 quall'd him : The Duke of Buckingham^ by Mr. 
 Smith ; Norfolk, by Mr. Nokes ; Suffolk, by Mr. 
 LilliJion\ Cardinal Campeius and Cramnur,hy Mr. 
 Medburn ; Bifhop Gardiner, by Mr. Under hill ; 
 Earl o^ Surry, by Mr. Toung; Lord Sands J^y Mr. 
 Price ; Mrs. Betterton, Queen Catherine : Every 
 part by the great Care of Sir IVilliam, being 
 exadly perform'd ; it being all new Cloath'd 
 and new Scenes ; it continu'd A(5ting 1 5 Days 
 together with general Applaufe. 
 
 Love in a Tub, Wrote by Sir George Etheridgi; 
 Mr. Betterton, performing Lord Beanford ', Mr. 
 Smithy Colonel Bruce ; Mr. Norris, Lovis ; Mr. 
 Nokes, Sir Nicholas Cully; Mr. Underhill,Pahm'r\ 
 
 Mr. 
 
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 Mr. Saunford,'SS[hQ.2idXQ; yirs.Betterton^Graciana; 
 Mrs. Davies, Aurelia ; Mrs. Long, the "Widow ; 
 Mr. Harris, Sir FrederickFrollich, Mr. Price j Du- 
 
 foy- 
 
 Sir Nich'las, Sir Fred'rick ; Widow and Dufoy, 
 Were not by any fo well done^ Mafoy ; 
 
 The clean and well performance of this 
 Comedy, got the Company more Reputation 
 and Profit than any preceding Comedy ; the 
 Company taking in a Months time at it looo/. 
 
 Cutter of Coleman -fireet ; Written 
 by Mr. Abraham Cowley, Colonel ^°^'^ ™s ^l^y 
 
 cv 7 7 r > 1 1 n yr Ti '^'^s not alittle m- 
 
 Jolly, perform d by Mr. Betterton ; jurious to the Ca- 
 Old True -man, by Mr. Lovel ^^^l^"" indigent 
 
 ^ T.i TT • /^ ' Officers ; efpecial- 
 
 Young True-man, Mr. tiarris ; Lut-\y the Character 
 /^r,Mr. Underbill \ Captain Worme,""^^^";"''- ^""^ 
 Mr. Sandford , Parfon Soaker, Mr. 
 Daeres ; Puny, Mr. Nokes; JVill. Mr. Price; Au- 
 relia, by Mrs. Betterton ; Lucia, Mrs. Ann Gibbs; 
 Laughing Jane, by Mrs. Long : This Comedy 
 being A6led fo perfectly Well and Exadl, it was 
 perform'd a whole Week with a full Audience. 
 
 The Dutchefs of Malfey. Wrote by Mr. Web- 
 lier : Duke Ferdinand, Perform'd by Mr. Harris: 
 Bofola, by Mr. Betterton : Antonio, Mr. Smith: 
 Cardinal, Mr. Toung : Dutchefs of Malfey, by 
 Mrs. Betterton : Julia, the Cardinals Miftrefs, by 
 Mrs, Gibbs : This Play was fo exceeding Ex- 
 cellently ASfed in all Parts ; chiefly, Duke Ferdi- 
 nand and Bojola : It fiU'd the Houfe 8 Days Suc- 
 ceflively, it proving one of the Beft of Stock 
 Tragedies. 
 
 The Tragedy of Muftapha, Wrote by the Earl 
 of Orrery. The part of Solyman the Magnifi- 
 cent, 
 
 j^^^ 
 
( ^6 ) 
 
 cent, was done by Mr. Betterton : Mujlapha^ Mr. 
 Harris : Zanger, Mr. Smith : Rujlan^ Mr. Sand- 
 ford: Pyrrhus^ Mr. Richards : Mr. Young. Hal}\ 
 Mr. Cademan: Roxolana, Mrs. Davenport : ( Af- 
 terward Mrs. Betterton^ and then by one Mrs. 
 Wijeman ) Queen oiHiingaria, Mrs. Davies. All 
 the Parts being new Cloath'd with new Scenes, 
 Sir JVilliam^s great Care of having it perfed: 
 and exactly perform'd, it produced to himfelf 
 and Company vaft Profit. 
 
 Thefe being all the Principal, which we 
 call'd . Stock-Plays ; that were ASIed from the 
 Time they Open'd the Theatre in 1662, to 
 the beginning of May^ 1665, at which time 
 the Plague began to Rage : The Company 
 ceas'd Acting ; till the Chrijlmajs after the Fire 
 in 1666. Yet there were feveral other Plays 
 A5led^ from 1662, to 1665, both Old and Mo- 
 dern : As a Comedy call'd, A Trick to catch the 
 Old One : T'he Sparagus Garden: Wit in a ConJIa- 
 ble. Tu Quoque : '•the tragedy of King Lear, as 
 Mr. Shakefpear Wrote it ; before it was alter'd 
 by Mr. Tate. The Slighted Maid : The Step-Mo- 
 ther ^ both Written by Sir Robert Stapleton : Lazv 
 again/l Lovers, by Sir William Davenant. 'fis bet- 
 ter than it roas : Worfe atul Worfe : Thefe Two 
 Comedies were made out of Spanip, by the 
 Earl of Brijiol. The Ghofts, Wrote by Mr. 
 Holden : Pandora, Wrote by Sir IJ'illiam Killi- 
 grew. The Company ending as I faid with Mujia- 
 pha, in May 1665, after a Year and Half's 
 Difcontinuance ; they by Command began 
 with the fame Play again at Court .- The Chrijl- 
 inafs after the Fire in 1666 : And from thence 
 continu'd again to Ad at their Theatre In Lin- 
 cohCs Inn- Fie Ids. The 
 
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 ^YERSITY ) 
 
 OF / 
 
 The firfl new Play fh^iy^^i^^a in 1666, 
 was : The Tragedy of Cambyfes, Ki?7g of Perfi^, 
 Wrote by Mr. SeUle : Cambyfes, was perfornt'd 
 by Mr. Betterton : Frexajpes the General, by Mr. 
 Harris : Prince Smerdis, Mr. I'oung : Mandana, 
 by Mrs. Betterton : All the other Parts, being 
 perfe6lly well A6ted, Succeeded fix Days with 
 a full Audience. 
 
 ^fter this the Company Revived Three Comedies of 
 Mr. SherlyV, viz. 
 
 The Grateful Servant. 
 The Witty Fair One. 
 The School of Comple- 
 ments. 
 
 The JVoman's a Weather 
 Cock. 
 
 Thefe Plays being per- 
 fecflly well Perform'd ; ef- 
 pecially Dulciiio the Grate- 
 ful Servant, being Atled by 
 Mrs. Long; and the firfl 
 time fhe appear'd in Man's 
 Habit, pro\-'d as Beneficial 
 to the Company, as feveral 
 fucceeding new Plays. 
 
 Richard the Third, or the Englijh Princefs, 
 "Wrote by Mr. Carrol^ was Excellently well Ac- 
 ted in every Part ; chiefly, King Richard, by 
 Mr. Betterton ; Duke of Richmond, by Mr. Har- 
 ris ; Sir William Stanly, by Mr. Smith, Gain'd 
 them an Additional Eftimation, and the Ap- 
 plaufe from the Town, as well as profit to the 
 whole Company, 
 
 King Henry the ^th. Wrote by the Earl of 
 Orrery. Mr. Harris, y^^edthe.K'mg : Mr. Bet- 
 terton, Owen Tudor : Mr. Smith, Duke of Bur- 
 gundy : Duke of Bedford, Mr. Lillijlon : Earl of 
 Warwick, Mr. Angel : Clermont, Mr. Medburn: 
 Queen, Mrs. Betterton. This Play was Splen- 
 didly Cloath'd : The King in the Duke of 
 
 Tork's 
 
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 York's Coronation Suit : Owen Tudor, in King 
 Charles : Duke of Burgundy, in the Lord of 
 Oxford^Sy and the reft all New. It was Excel- 
 lently Perform'd, and Aded lo Days Succef- 
 fively. 
 
 After this my Lord Orrery, Writ Two Come- 
 dies : The firft call'd Gufman ; the other Mr. 
 Anthony Gufman^ took very well, the other but 
 indifferent. There being an odd fort of Duel 
 in it, between Mr. Nokes and Mr. Angel, both 
 Comicks meeting in the Field to fight, one 
 came Arm'd with a Blunderbus, the other with 
 a Bow and Arrows. 
 
 Sir Martin Marral, The Duke of New-Cajlle, 
 giving Mr. Dryden a bare Tranflation of it, out 
 of a Comedy of the Famous French Poet Mon- 
 Jeur Moleiro : He Adapted the Part purpofely 
 for the Mouth of Mr. Nokes, and curioufly Po- 
 liftiing the whole ; Mr. Smith, Adling Sir John 
 Swallow ; Mr. Toung, Lord Dartmouth; Mr. Un- 
 der hill ^ Old Moody ; Mr. Harris y Warner ; Mrs. 
 Norris, Lady Dupe; Mrs. Millijent, Madame Da- 
 vies. All the Parts being very Juft and Exact- 
 ly perform'd, 'fpecially Sir Martin and his 
 Man, Mr Smith, and feveral others fince have 
 come very near him but none Equall'd, nor 
 yet Mr. Nokes in Sir Martin : This Comedy 
 was Crown'd with an Excellent Fntry : In the 
 laft Ad at the Mask, by Mr. Prieji and Madam 
 Davies ; This, and Love in a Tub, got the Com- 
 pany more Money than any preceding Come- 
 
 She Wou'd if She Cou'd, Wrote by Sir George 
 Etheridgc; Courtall, A6\:cd by Mr. Smith: Free- 
 man, Mr. Toung : Sir Jojlin, Mr. Harris : Sir O- 
 
 livery 
 
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 liver^ Mr. "Nokes : Ariana, Mrs. Jenning\ Gatty^ 
 Mrs. Davies: Lady Cj^/^i^;!?!?^, Mrs. Shadwell. It 
 took well, but Inferior to Love in a Tub. 
 
 After this were A6led, The Queen of Arra- 
 gon^ and Cupid's Revenge 
 
 The Impertinents, or Sullen Lovers, Wrote 
 by Mr. Shadwell ; This Comedy being Admi- 
 rably A6ted : Efpecially, Sir Pofitive At-all, by 
 Mr. Harris : Poet Ninny ^ by Mr. Nokes ; IVood- 
 cock^ by Mr. Angel : Standford and Emilia ; the 
 Sullen Lovers : One by Mr. Smith, and the o- 
 ther by Mrs. Shadwell, This Play had won- 
 derful Succefs, being A6ted 1 2 Days together, 
 when our Company were Commanded to Dos 
 ver, in May 1670. The King with all his Court, 
 meeting his fifter, the Dutchefs of Orleans there. 
 This Comedy and Sir Solomon Single^ pleas'd 
 Madam the Dutchefs, and the whole Court 
 extremely. The Fre^ich Court wearing then 
 Exceffive fhort Lac'd Coats ; fome Scarlet, 
 fome Blew, with Broad waft Belts ; Mr. Nokes 
 havinof at that time one fhorter than the French 
 Fafhion, to Ad Sir Arthur Addle in ; the Duke 
 of Monmouth gave Mr. Nokes his Sword and 
 Belt from his Side, and Buckled it on himfelf, 
 on purpofe to Ape the French : That Mr. Nokes 
 lookt more like a Dreft up Ape, than a Sir 
 Arthur : Which upon his firft Entrance on the 
 Stage, put the King and Court to an Excef- 
 five Laughter ; at which the French look'd ve- 
 ry Shaggrin, to fee them.felves Ap'd by fuch a 
 Buffoon as Sir Arthur : Mr. Nokes kept the 
 Dukes Sword to his Dying Day. 
 
 Sir Solo7nan Single, Wrote by Mr. Carrol, Sir 
 Solomon Adled by Mr. Betterton: Peregrine Wood- 
 land 
 
( 30) 
 
 land, by Mr. Harris : Single, by Mr. Smith: Mi. 
 IVary^ by Mr. Sandford: Timothy, by Mr. Under- 
 hill: Betty, by Mrs. Jofmjon: Julia, Mrs. Better- 
 ton. The Play being Singularly well Jcfed, 
 it took 1 2 Days together. 
 
 The Woman made a Juftice : Wrote by Mr. 
 Betterton: ^rs. Long , Aclingxht Juftice fo Charm- 
 ingly ; and the Comedy being perfe(5l and juft- 
 ly Afted, fo well pleas'd the Audience, it con- 
 tinu'd Afling 14 Days together: The Prologue 
 being fpoke to it each Day. 
 
 The Amorous Widow, or the Wanton Wife, 
 Wrote by the fame Author. Mr. Betterton, Ac- 
 ted Lovemore: Mr. Smith, Cunnigham: Mx. Nokes, 
 Barnaby Brittle : The Widow, A/rs. Betterton .- 
 Mrs. Longy Mrs. Brittle : She Performed it fo 
 well, that none Equall'd her but Mrs. Brace- 
 girdle. 
 
 The Unjuft Judge,or Appi us Virginia, done by 
 the sa.mQ Author, FirginiusA^ed by Mr. Betterton, 
 Appius, the Unjuft Judge, by Mr. Harris: Virgi- 
 nia, by Mrs. Betterton. And all the other Parts 
 Exa5lly perform'd, it lafted SucceHively 8 Days, 
 and very frequently A5ied afterwards. 
 
 The Afan's the Mifter, Wrote by Sir IVilliam 
 Davenant, being the laft Play he ever Wrote, 
 he Dying prefently after ; and was Bury'd in 
 Wejlminfter-Abby , near Mr. Chaucer sMo\\\xrr\tr\\., 
 Our whole Company attendinq^ his Funeral. 
 This Comedy in general was very well Per- 
 form'd, efpecially, the Maflcr, by Mr. Harris ; 
 the Man, by Mr. Under hill: Mr. Harris and Mr. 
 Sandford, Singing the Epilogue like two Street 
 Ballad-Singers. 
 
 Note, 
 
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 Note, My. Cademan in this Flay\ not long after 
 our Company began in Dorfet-Garden; his Fart be- 
 ing to Fight with Mr. Harris, was Unfortunately, 
 with a JharpFo{lpierc'dneartheEye,which]foMaim'd 
 both his Hand and his Speech, that he canmake little 
 ufe of either-, for which MiJ chance, he has received a 
 Fenjion ever si7ice 1673, being 35 Years a goe. 
 
 This being the laft New Play that was Jfied 
 in Lincolns-Inn Fields, yet there were fundry o- 
 thers done there, from 1662, till the time they 
 left that Houfe ; As Love's Kingdom, Wrote by 
 Mx.Fleckno: The Royal Shepherdefs, by Mr. Shad- 
 well: Two Fools well met,hY My. Lodwick Car Hie: 
 The Coffee-houje, by My. Sincerf: All-Flot, or the 
 Difguifes, by My. Stroude : All which Expir'd the 
 third Day, fave the Royal Shepherdefs, which 
 liv'd Six. 
 
 Note, About the Year 1670, Mrs. Aldridge, 
 after Mrs. Lee, after Lady Slingsby, alfo Mrs. 
 L^z;^/AVife,Mr. John Lee, My. Crosby, MYS.John- 
 fon, were entertain'd in the Dukes Houfe. 
 
 The new Theatre in Dorfet-Garden being Fi- 
 nifh'd, and our Company after Sir William^s 
 Death, being under the Rule and Dominion 
 of his Widow the Lady Davenant, Mr Betterton, 
 and Mr Harris, ( Mr. Charles Davenant ) her 
 Son Acting for her) they remov'd from Lincolns- 
 Inn- Fields thither. And on the Ninth Day of 
 Nove7nber i6yi, they open'd their new Theatre 
 with Sir Martin Marral, which continu'd Ailing 
 3 Days together, with a full Audience each 
 Day ; notwithftanding it had been A^ed 30 
 Days before in Lincolns-Inn- Fields j and above 4 
 times at Court. * 
 
 Next 
 
( 32 ) 
 
 Next was AHed Love In a Tub, it was per- 
 form'd 2 Days together to a full Audience. 
 
 The firft new Play AEled there, was King 
 Charles the VIII. of France ; it was all new 
 Cloath'd, yet lafted but 6 Days together, but 
 'twas A5led now and then afterwards. 
 
 The next new Comedy, was the Mamamou- 
 chi or the Cittzen -turn'd Gentleman, Wrote 
 by Mr. Ravenscraft i Trickinore, and Fencing- 
 Mafter, by Mr. Harris ; French Tutor and Sing- 
 ing Mafter, by Mr. Haines : ( He having Af- 
 fronted Mr. Hart J he gave him a Difcharge and 
 then came into our Houfe ) Old Jorden, Mr. 
 Nokes-JDi: Curai, M r.Sand/ord;S\rSi?;ieonLofi-head, 
 Mr. Underhill;Lucia, Mrs. Betterton; Betty '•Trick- 
 more^ Mrs. Leigh : This Comedy was look upon 
 by the Criticks for a Foolifh Play ; yet it con- 
 tinu'd Acling g Days with a full Houfe ; upon 
 the Sixth the Houfe being very full : The Poet 
 added 2 more Lines to his Epilogue, viz. 
 
 The Criticks come to Hi/s, and Dam this Play, 
 Tet/pite of tliem/elves tliey can't keep away. 
 
 However Mr. ISIokes in performing the Ma- 
 momouchi pleas'd the King and Court, next Sir 
 Martin^ above all Plays. 
 
 The third new Play AHed there was the Gen- 
 tleman Dancing-Mafter, Wrote by Mr. IVitcher- 
 lyy it lafted but 6 Days, being like't but indiffe- 
 rently, it was laid by to make Room for o- 
 ther new ones. 
 
 Note, Several of the Old Stock Plays were AHed 
 between each of the/e 3 new Ones. 
 
 Epfom 
 
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 Epfotn Wells, a Comedy Wrote by Mr. Shad- 
 well : Mr. Rains, was AEied by Mr. Harris'. Be- 
 vilj by Mr. Betterton: IVoodly, by Mr.Smith: Juf- 
 tice Clod-pate, Mr. Underhill : Carolina, Mrs. 
 John/on : Lucia, Mrs. Gz-^i-j : Mrs. Ji//, i^^y Mrs. 
 Betterton : Mr. A^fj/^d-^, Mr. ^zj/^^-Z : Mr. ^w^d-/, 
 Fribble. This Play in general being Admirably 
 A6led, produc'd great Profit to the Company. 
 
 Note, Mrs. Johnfon in this Comedy^ Dancing a 
 Jiggfo Charming well. Loves power in a little time 
 afterCoerc'dher toDance moreCharming,elfe-where. 
 
 A Comedy call'd 'The Reformation, Written 
 by a Afafter of Arts in Cambridge ; The Refor- 
 mation in the Play, being the Reverfe to the 
 Laws of 7l<forality and Virtue ; it quickly made 
 its Exit, to make way for a i'kforal one. 
 
 The Tragedy of iVf^(:^^//7,alter'd by Sir fFilliam 
 Davenant ; being dreft in all it's Finery, as new 
 Cloath's, new Scenes, Machines, as flyings for 
 the Witches ; with all the Singing and Dan- 
 cing in it : THE firft Compos'd by Mr. 
 Lock, the other by Mr. Channell and Mr. Jofeph 
 Preiji ; it being all Excellently perform'd, be- 
 ing in the nature of an Opera, it Recompenc'd 
 double the Expence ; it proves ftill a lafting 
 Play. 
 
 Note, That this Tragedy, King Lear and the 
 Hempefi, were A£ied\rs.Lincolns-Inn-Fields\ Lear, 
 being A£led exa6lly as Mr. Shake/pear Wrote it ; 
 as likewife the Tempejl alter'd by Sir William 
 Davenant and Mr. Dry den, before 'twas made in- 
 to an Opera. 
 
 Loves Jealou/y, and [ Written by Mr. Nevil 
 The Morning Ramble. ■ j Pain. 
 
 D Both 
 
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 Both were very well A5fed, but after their 
 firft run, were laid afide, to make Room for 
 others ; the Company having then plenty of 
 new Poets. 
 
 The Jealous Bridegroom, Wrote by Afrs. 
 Bhen, a good Play and laded fix Days ; but this 
 made its Exit too, to give Room for a greater. 
 ^he Tempeft. 
 
 Note, In this Play^ Mr. Otway the Poet having 
 an Inclination to turn Afior\ Mrs. Bhen gave him 
 the King in the Play, for a Probation Part^but he be- 
 ing not US' d to the Stage\thefullHouJe -puthim tofuch 
 a Sweat and Tremendous y Agony, being dajh'tjpoilt 
 him for an A5lor. Mr. Nat. Lee, had the fame 
 Fate in Acting Duncan in Macbeth, ruin d him for 
 anA5ior too. I mujl not forget my felf, being Lified 
 for an Aflor in 6'/rWilliamDavenant'j Company in 
 Lincolns-Inn-Fields : The very firjl Day of open- 
 ing the Houje t here , with t he Siege of KhoAts, being to 
 A51 Haly ; ( The King, Duke 0/ York, and all the 
 Nobility in the Iloufe, and the firji time the King 
 was in a Publick Theatre)The fight of that Augull 
 prefencejpoird me for anABor too. But being fo in 
 the Company oftwofuch Eminent Poets, as they prov\i 
 aftervoard,made my Dif grace fo mucJi the ltfs;from 
 that time, theirGeniusfet tfiem uponPoetry.ThefirJi 
 Wrote Alcibiades; The later, the Tragedy o/Nero; 
 the one for theDukes,the other for the Kings Ibufe. 
 The Year after in 1673. The Tempell:, or 
 the Inchanted I Hand, made into an Opera by 
 Mr. Shadwell, having all New in it ; as Scenes, 
 A/achines ; particularly, one Scene Painted 
 with Myriads of Ariel Spirits ; and another fly- 
 ing away, with a Table b'urnilht out with 
 Fruits, Sweet meats and all forts of X'iands; 
 
 juft 
 
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 juft when Duke Trinculo and his Companions' 
 were going to Dinner ; all was things per- 
 form'd in it fo Admirably well, that not any 
 fucceeding Opera got more Money. 
 
 About this time the Company was very 
 much Recruited, having loft by Death Mr. 
 Joje^h Price, M.^. Lovell, yiwLillifi on, Mx. Robert 
 Nokes, Mr. Mojely, Mr. Coggan, My. Floid, Mr. 
 Gibbons; Mrs.Davenport, Mrs. Davies, Mrs.Jen- 
 nings, &c. The three laft by force of Love 
 were Erept the Stage : In their Rooms came 
 in Mr. Anthony Lee, Mr. Gillo, Mv. Jevon, Mr. 
 Percival^ Mr. Williams, who came in a Boy, and 
 ferv'd Mr. Harris, Mr. Boman a Boy likewife. 
 Mrs. Barry, Mrs.Currer, Mrs. Butler, Mrs.Slaugh- 
 ter, Mrs^ Knapper, Mrs. Twiford. 
 
 After the Tempeft, came the Siege of Con- 
 Jiantinople, Wrote by Mr. Nevill Pain. 
 
 Then the Conqueft of China by the Turtars, 
 by Mr. Settle ; in this Play Mr. Jevon A6ling a 
 Chinefe Prince and Commander in it, and being 
 in the Battle, Vanquilht by the Tartars ; he 
 was by his Part to fall upon the point of his 
 Sword and Kill himfelf, rather than be a Prifo- 
 ner by the Tartars : Mr. Jevon inftead of fall- 
 ing on the point of his Sword, laid it in the 
 Scabbard at length upon the Ground and fell 
 upon't, faying, now I am Dead ; which put 
 the Author into fuch a Fret, it made him ipeak 
 Treble, inftead of Double Jevons anfwer was ; 
 did not you bid me fall upon my Sword 
 
 In February 1673. The longexpe6led Opera of 
 Pfyche, came forth in all her Ornaments ; new 
 Scenes, new Afachines, new Cloaths, new 
 French Dances : This Opera was Splendily fet 
 out, efpecially in Scenes ; the Charge of which 
 D 2 amoun- 
 
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 amounted to above 800/. It had a Continuance 
 of Performance about 8 Days together it prov'd 
 very Beneficial to the Company ; yet the Tem- 
 feft got them more Money, 
 
 After this Sir Patient Fancy was A(5i:ed, 
 
 Then the Rover. Both Wrote by Mrs. Bhen. 
 
 Alcihiades,t\i^ firft Play that Mr.O/x-rty Wrote. 
 
 Madam Fickle, by Mr. Durfey. 
 
 Then Don Carlos Prince o^ Spain ; the Second 
 Play Wrote by yir.Otivay : The King, was per- 
 form'd by Mr. Betterton : Prince, by Mr. Smith: 
 Don John of Aufiria, by Mr. Harris: Gomez.Mr. 
 Medburn : Queen, Madam Slingsby ; and all the 
 Parts being admirably Afled^ it lafted fuccef- 
 fively 10 Days ; it got more Money than any 
 preceding Modern Tragedy. 
 
 After this in 1676. The Man of Mode, or Sir 
 Fopling Flutter was A^ed: Dorimant, hy Mr. Bet- 
 terton : Medly, Mr. Harris: Sir Fopling, by Mr. 
 Smith : Old Bellair, Mr. Leigh: Young Bellair^ 
 Mr. Jevon : Mrs. Lovit, Mrs. Barry, Bellinda^ 
 Mrs. ^^-//^r/o;/, Lady IVoodvi I , Mrs. Leigh, Emiliay 
 Mrs. Tzviford : This Comedy being well Cloath'd 
 and well AHed, got a great deal of Money. 
 
 'The Soldiers Fortune, fVrote by Mr. Otway. 
 
 Ihen the Fond Husband, by Mr. Durfc)-. 
 
 Thele two Comedies took extraordinary 
 well, and being perfe6lly Ailed; got the Com- 
 pany great Reput:ition and Profit. 
 
 Circe, an Opera Wrote by Dr. Davcnant ; O- 
 rejtes, was A^edhy Mr. Betterton : Py lades, Mr. 
 irHliams: Ithacus, Mr. Smith: Thoas,^\v. Harris-. 
 Circe, \^:^.dy Slingsby : Iphigenia, Mrs. Betterton: 
 0/mida, Mrs. Tzviford. All the Mufick w:is fet 
 by Mr. Banifter^ and being well Perform'd, it 
 
 anfwcr'd 
 
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 anfwer'd the Expedlation of the Company. 
 
 'The Siege of Troy. 
 Anna Bullen. 
 
 By Mr. Banks. 
 
 The feign' d Curtezans. | Both by Mrs. Bhen. 
 The City Heirefs. j 
 
 Thefe Four were well A6led ; Three of them 
 liv'd but a fhort time : But Ann Bullen prov'd a 
 Stock-Play. 
 
 Timon of Athens, alter'd by Mr. Shadwell ; 
 'twas very well A^ed, and the Mufick in't 
 well Perform'd ; it wonderfully pleas'd the Court 
 and City ; being an Excellent Moral 
 
 The Li der tine, and Virtuojo: Both Wrote by Mr. 
 Shadwell ; they were both very well A£fed, and 
 got the Company great Reputation The Liber- 
 tine perform'd by Mr. Betterton Crown'd the Play. 
 
 TheSpanifh Fryar,WrotQ byMr. Dryden; 'twas 
 Admirably A£led, and produc'd vaft Profit to 
 the Company. 
 
 Oedipus King of Thebes, Wrote by Mr. Nat. 
 Lee, and Mr. Dry den : The laft Writing the firft 
 two Afis, and the firft the 3 laft This Play 
 was Admirably well Afied ; efpecially the Parts 
 oi Oedipus and Jocafla: One by yir. Betterton, the 
 other by Mrs. Betterton ; it took prodigioufly,be- 
 ing A£led 10 Days together. 
 
 The Orphan,or theUnhappy Marriage-^ rotthy 
 
 Mr. Otway. Ca/ialio Acted hy Mr Betterton: Poli- 
 
 dor, Mr. Williams: Chamont, yir.Smith-.Chaplain, 
 
 s/Mr. Percival : Monimia, Mrs Barry : Serina, 
 
 ..Mrs. Monfort. All the Parts being Admirably 
 
 done, efpecially the Part of Mo7iimia\ This 
 
 D 'X and 
 
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 and Beh'idera in Venice prefervd, or a Plot Dijco- 
 ver'd\ together with IJabella^ in the Fatal Mar- 
 riage : Thefe three Parts, gain'd her the Name 
 of Famous A/rs. Barry ^ both at Court and Ci- 
 ty ; for when ever She Aoled any of thofe three 
 Parts, fhe forc'd Tears from the Eyes of her 
 Auditory, efpecially thofe who have any Senfe 
 of Pity for the Diftrefs't. 
 
 Thefe 3 Plays, by their Excellent perfor- 
 mances, took above all the Modern Plays that 
 fucceeded. 
 
 'Titus and Berenice^ Wrote by the fame Author, 
 confifting of 3//^^: With the F^nr of the Cheats 
 of Scapin at the end : This Play, with the Farce, 
 being perfedly well A£fed ; had good Succefs. 
 
 Theodofius, or the Force of Love, 
 Note, Mr. \'^^. Vq xoteh\ Mx. 'Nathaniel Lec'.Var a- 
 
 WrotctheJras'eity of \ r\ r t» • *r-. j l 
 
 Nero. The Court of nes., the Ferfian Prnice, Acted by 
 Au-ufius.>Diu.y- y^^^ Bctterton : Marcian the Ge- 
 
 I.nne HoKje. I lie i iv /r o • ; -t-i i - 
 
 /v?>»r^ ^/ cieve >r neral, Mr. bmith \ Theodojius^ 
 ^^7/'';S''v^?'/'/"^' Mr. ♦ IVilliams, : Athenais, Mrs. 
 
 ivell Aaed, Out (uc- n i r« • ' i • 
 
 ceedej not /o Will as Barrv '. All the Parts in t bemg 
 t/u- others. perfedly perform'd, with feve- 
 
 ral Entertainments of Singing ; Compos'd by 
 the Famous Mafter Mr. henry Fiircell, ( being 
 the firft he e'er Compos'd for the Stage ) made 
 it a living and (jainful Play to the Company : 
 The Court ; efpecially the Ladies, by their 
 daily charming prcfcnce, gave it great Encour- 
 agement. 
 
 The Lancajltirc Witches, Acted in i68r, made 
 by Mr. Shad-zirll, being a kind of Opera, hav- 
 ing feveral Machines of Myings for the Witches, 
 and other Divcrtinij^ Contrivances in't : All 
 being well perlorm d, it prov'd beyond Kx- 
 
 pcdation ; 
 
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 pedlation ; very Beneficial to the Poet and 
 A^ors, 
 
 All the preceding Plays, being the chief that 
 were A5led in Dorfet-Garden, from November 
 1 6/ 1, to the Year 1682 ; at which time the 
 Patentees of each Company United Patents ; 
 and by fo Incorporating the Duke's Compa- 
 ny were made the King's Company, and im- 
 mediately remov'd to the Theatre Royal in 
 Drury-Lane. 
 
 Upon this Union, Mr. Hart being the Heart 
 of the Company under Mr. Killsgreisj^s Patent 
 never A5led more, by reafon of his Malady ; 
 being Afflifted with the Stone and Gravel, of 
 which he Dy'd fome time after : Having a 
 Sallary of 40 Shillings a Week to the Day of 
 his Death. But the Remnant of that Compa- 
 ny ; as Major Mohun, Mr. Cartwright , INIr. Ky- 
 najion, M.Y.GriJfin, Mr. Goodman,Mr. Duke Wat- 
 fon, Mr. Powel Senior, Mr. Wiltjhire, Mrs Corey, 
 Mrs. Bowtell, Mrs Cook, Mrs. Monfort, &c 
 
 Note, now Mr. Monfort and Mr. Carlile, were 
 grown to the Maturity of good Actors 
 
 The mixt Company then Reviv'd the feve- 
 ral old and Modern Plays, that were the Pro- 
 priety of Mr. KilUgrew, ?iS,Rule a Wife, and have 
 a Wife: Mr Better ton A^ing Michael Perez: Don 
 Leon, Mr Smith: Cacofcgo, Mr. Cartwright: Mar- 
 garet ta, Mrs. Barry: E/iiphania,'N[vs Cook: Next, 
 
 1'he Scornful Lady. 
 'The Plain Dealer. 
 The Mock AJirologer. 
 The Jovial Crew. 
 The Beggars Bufh. 
 
 D 4 Bar- 
 
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 Bartholomew- Fair. 
 
 The Moor ^Venice. 
 
 Rollo. 
 
 The Humorous Lieutenant. 
 
 'TheDoubleMarriage.'^'\x.\\d\wtTsot\\tTS. 
 
 Next new Play was the Tragedy of Valenti- 
 nian^ wrote by the Lord Rochejler ^ from Beau- 
 mont and Fletcher. Mr. Goodman A^cd Valentini- 
 an : Mr. Beiterton^ y^cius : Mr. Kynajion^ Maxi- 
 jnus: Mr. Griffin^ Pontius: Madam Barr)\ Lucina^ 
 &c. The well performance, and the vaft Inte- 
 reft the Author made in Town, Crown'd the 
 Play, with great Gain of Reputation ; and Pro- 
 fit to the A^ors. 
 
 In Anno 1685. The Opera of Albion and Al- 
 hianus was perform'd ; wrote by Mr. Dryden, 
 and Compos'd by Monfieur Grabue : This being 
 perform'd on a very Unlucky Day, being the 
 Day the Duke of Monmouth^ Landed in the 
 Weft : The Nation being in a great Confterna- 
 tion, it was perform'd but Six times, which 
 not Anfwering half THE Charge they 
 were at, Involv'd the Company very much in 
 Debt. 
 
 The firft new Comedy after 
 ^°^J' {^^'iP'j^'Y^ K'mcr James came to the Crown, 
 Edward Hcifomiy/z.- was bir Courfly A ue, wrote by 
 riainUoaicr /,^//<y»/.- jyj Crown : Sir Courtly, A^cd 
 
 ceedim; tn the 2 Jor- tt i i * ^ 
 
 mer ^ have /u/iia/iii by Mv. Mounfort '. Hothead, Mr. 
 'Zi^t'^J^Z VnderhiU : Teftimcuy, Ah. Gillo : 
 the latter. Lord Beaugard^ Mr. Kynafton: 
 
 Surly, by Mr. Grijfin : Sir Nicho- 
 las Call/co, by the Famous Mr. Antony l^igh: Le- 
 onora, A/adam Barry, ike. This Comedy being 
 
 juftly 
 
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 juftly A^ed, and the Charafters in't new, 
 Crown'd it with a general Applaufe : Sir Court- 
 ly was fo nicely Perform'd, that not any fuc- 
 ceeding, but Mr. Cyber has Equall'd him. 
 
 The Squire of Aljatia^ a Co- 
 medy Wrote by Mr. Shadwell : ^J'^^^^J^ll]]^ -^^'f^ 
 Sir William Belfond^ DONE part of sir Wiiiiam, 
 by Mr. Lei^h : Sir Edward, Mr. ;^^^^Pi^,°f ^"i,?' 
 
 r^ -XT T-u c • k A/r A7 / ble 6-/;- Jolly Jumble. 
 
 Lrrijjin: i he Squire by Mr JNokes, Mercury in Amphi- 
 afterwards by Mr. Jevon: Bel- %''":. ^% ^T^^' 
 
 . •' -^ bpaniui rryar Pan- 
 
 /ond junior, Mr. Mounfort : Mrs dams in Troiius 
 Termigant.yixs. Boutel-.LuciaMrs "'"^ ^''^•^^• 
 Bracegirdle. This Play by its Excellent Ading, 
 being often Honour'd with the prefence of 
 Chancellour Jefferies, and other great Perfons ; 
 had an Uninterrupted run of 13 Days together. 
 Note, 'The Poet received for his third Day in the 
 Houje in Drury-Lane at Jingle Prizes 130/, which 
 was thegreatejl Receipt they ever had at thatHouJe at 
 Jingle Prizes. 
 
 About this time, there were feveral other new 
 Plays A Sled. As, 
 
 The True Widow. 
 
 Sir Anthony hone. 
 
 The Scowrers, 
 
 Amphytrion. 
 
 Love iny and Love out of 
 
 Fajhion. 
 Greenwich Park. 
 Cleomenes. 
 
 Troiius and Crejfida. 
 C^efar Borgia. 
 
 All but Amphitrion ; 
 which fucceeding but 
 indifferently, I Omit 
 the Perfons Names that 
 A(5led in this Play ; 
 this proving a Stock- 
 Play. 
 
 The 
 
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 The Old Bachelor, wrote 
 by Mr. Congreve. 
 
 The Fatal Marriage^ or 
 Innocent A dultry; by- 
 Mr. Southern 
 
 The Double Dealer ; by 
 Mr. Congreve. 
 
 I All 3 cTOod Plays ; 
 and by their juft Per- 
 formances ; fpecially, 
 Mr. Doggets andMadam 
 Barry's Unparrell'd. 
 
 The Boarding School ; Wrote by Mr. Dur/y, it 
 took well being juftly Aded. 
 
 The Marriage Hater MatcJid, Wrote by the 
 fame Author : There Mr. Dogget perform'd the 
 part of Solon inimitably ; likewife his Part in 
 the Boar ding-School. 
 
 King Arthur an Opera, wrote by Mr. Dry den; 
 it was Excellently Adorn'd with Scenes and Ma- 
 chines : The Mufical Part fet by Famous Mr, 
 Henry Purcel ; and Dances made by Mr. Jo. 
 Priejl : The Play and Mufick pleas'd the Court 
 and City, and being well perform'd, twas ve- 
 ry Gainful to the Company. 
 
 The Prophete/s, or Diocltftan an Opera, wrote 
 by Mr. Betterton ; being fet out with Coaftly 
 Scenes, Machines and Cloaths : The Vocal and 
 Inftrumental Mufick, done by Mr. Purcel ; and 
 Dances by Mr. Priejl \ it gratify 'd the Expci5i:a- 
 tion of Court and City ; and got the Author 
 great Reputation, 
 
 The Fairy Queen, made into an Opera, from 
 a Comedy of Mr. Shake/pears : This in Orna- 
 ments was Superior to the other Two ; cfpe- 
 cially in Cloaths, for all the Singers and Dan- 
 cers, Scenes, Machines and Decorations, all 
 moft profufely fet off; and excellently perform*,d 
 chiefly the Inftrumental and Vocal part Com- 
 
 pos'd 
 
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 pos'd by the faid Mr Purcel, and Dances by Mr. 
 Prieji. The Court and Town were wonderfully 
 fatisfy'd with it ; but the Expences in fetting it 
 out being fo great, the Company got very little 
 by it. 
 
 JSote, Between thefe Opera's there were feve- 
 ral other Plays A6ted, both Old and Modern. As^ 
 
 Bury Fair. , 
 
 Wit without Money. ' 
 
 The Taming of a Shrew. 
 
 The Maiden dueen. 
 
 The Mifirefs, by Sir Charles Sydly. 
 
 IJland Princefs. 
 
 A Sea Voyage. 
 
 The Englifh Fryar, by Mr Crown. 
 
 Bujfy DAmbois. 
 
 The Majfacre of Paris, i^c. 
 
 Some time after, a difference happening be- 
 tween the United Patentees, and the chief Ac- 
 tors: As Mr. Betterton; Mrs.Barry andMrs.^r^ife"- 
 girdle ; the latter complaining of OpprelTion 
 from the former ; they for Redrefs, Appeal'd 
 to my Lord of Dor/et, then Lord Chamberlain, 
 for juftice ; who Efpoufing the Caufe of the 
 A6tors, with the affiftance of Sir Robert Howard, 
 finding their Complaints juft, procur'd from 
 King William, a Seperate Licenfe for Mr. Con- 
 greve, Mr. Betterton^ Mrs. Bracegirdle and Mrs. 
 Barry, and others, to fet up a new Compa- 
 ny, calling it the New Theatre in Lincolns-Inn- 
 Fields ; and the Houfe being fitted up from a 
 Tennis-Court, they Open'd it the laft Day of 
 ^ April, 1695, with a new Comedy : Call'd, 
 
 Love 
 
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 Love for Love^ Wrote by Mr. Congrcve ; this 
 Comedy was Superior in Sueccfs, than moft of 
 tlie precedent Plays : Valentine^ A^ied by Mr. 
 Betterton ; Scandall, Mr. Smith ; Forefight^ Mr. 
 Sand/or d ; Samp/on^ Mr. Underhill ; Ben the Say- 
 lor, Mr. Dogget; Jeremy^ Mr. Bowen; Mrs. Frail^ 
 by Madam Barry; Tattle^ Mr. Bo7nan\ Angelica^ 
 Mrs. Bracegirdle : This Comedy being Extra- 
 ordinary well A6ted, chiefly the Part of Ben the 
 Sailor, it took 13 Days Succeflively. 
 
 The Principal new Plays that {ucceeded this 
 from April 1695, to the Year 1704. Were, 
 
 Lovers Luck^ a Comedy, Wrote by Captain 
 Diiks, which fiU'd the Houfe 6 Days together, 
 and above 50/. the 8///, the Day it was left off. 
 
 The Grand Cyrus, wrote by Mr. Bunks; it was 
 a good Play ; but Mr. Sniiih having a long part 
 in it, fell Sick upon the Fourth Day and Dy'd, 
 upon that it lay by, and ne'er has bin A^ed fince. 
 
 The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy, wrote by Mr. 
 Congreve : had fuch Succefs, that it continu'd 
 Ading Uninterrupted 1 3 Days together. 
 
 Boadicea, the Brittifh Queen, wrote by Mr. 
 Hopkins ; 'twas a well Writ Play in an Ovidean 
 Stile in Verfe ; it was lik'd and got the Company 
 A/oney. 
 
 Heroick Love, Wrote by Mr. George Greenvil, 
 Superlatively Writ ; a very good Tragedy, well 
 Aded, and mightily pleas'd the Court and City. 
 
 Lov's a Jejl, a Comedy, done by A/r. Mateox; 
 fuccecded well, being well Ad:ed, and got the 
 Company Reputation and A/oney. 
 
 TheAnatomi/I, or Sham Doolor^ had profperous 
 
 Succefs, 
 
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 Succefs, and remains a living Play to this Day ; 
 'twas done by Mr. Raven/croft. 
 
 Don duixot, both Parts made into one, by Mr. 
 Durfey^Mrs. Bracegirdle Acling,and her excellent 
 Singing in't ; the Play in general being well 
 Perform'd, 'tis little Inferior to any of the pre- 
 ceding Comedies. 
 
 'The She-Gallants^ a Comedy, wrote by Mr. 
 George Greenvil^ when he was very Young : Ex- 
 traordinary Witty, and well Adled ; but of- 
 fending the Ears of fome Ladies who fet up for 
 Chaftity, it made its Exit. And gave place to, 
 
 Iphigenia a Tragedy, wrote by My, Dennis, a 
 good Tragedy and well A6led ; but anfwer'd 
 not the Expences they were at in Cloathing it. 
 
 The FateofCapuay wrote by Mr. Southern, bet- 
 ter to Read then A61 ; 'twas well Aded, but 
 anfwer'd not the Companies Expedlation. 
 
 Jufiice Bujy, a Comedy wrote by Mr. Crown ; 
 'twas well A5fed, yet prov'd not a living Play : 
 However Mrs. Br acegir die, hy a Potent and Mag- 
 netick Charm in performing a Song in't , 
 caus'd the Stones of the Street s to fly in the Men's 
 Faces. 
 
 The Way of the World, a Comedy wrote by Mr. 
 Congreve, twas curioufly A5ied\ Madam Brace- 
 girdle performing her Part fo exadly and juft, 
 gain'd the Applaufe of Court and City ; but 
 being too Keen a Satyr, had not the Succefs the 
 Company Expedled. 
 
 The Ambitious Step-Mother ^ done by y\.r.Rowe', 
 'twas very well A5led, efpecially the Parts of 
 Mr. Betterton^ Mr. Booth and Madam Barry; the 
 Play anfwer'd the Companies expeftation 
 
 Tamerlane, wrote by the fame Author, inge- 
 
 neral 
 
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 neva] wtW y4^cd ; but chiefly the Parts of Mr. 
 Betterton, Vanbruggen^ Mr. Pour/, Madam Brace- 
 girdle and Barry ; which made it a Stock-Play. 
 
 The Fair Penitent, by the fame Author, a very 
 good Play for three Ahs \ but failing in the two 
 laft, anfwer'd not their Expedation. 
 
 The Biter, a Farce, wrote by the fame Author, 
 it had fix Days run ; the fix Days running it 
 out of Breath, it Sicken'd and Expir'd. 
 
 Abra-jnule, wrote by Mr. Trap of Oxford; a 
 very good Play and exceedingly well Acled. 
 
 Thefe being all the chiefefl new Plays, that 
 have been J^ed by Mr. Betterton's Company, 
 fince its Separation from Mr. Rich in the Year 
 1695. The Names of feveral of the Aclors I 
 have not mention'd or offer'd to your View, as 
 in the others, by Reafon the late Acting of them, 
 makes them live in your Memories, 
 
 Flote, In the fpace of Ten Years past, Mr. 
 Betterton to gratify the defires and Fancies .of 
 the Nobility and Gentry ; procur'd from Abroad 
 the beft Dances and Singers, as, Monfieur L! 
 Abbey Madam Sublini, Monfieur Baton, Mar- 
 garita Delpine, Maria Gallia and divers others ; 
 who being Exorbitantly Expenfive, produc'd 
 fmall Profit to him and his Company, but vaft 
 Gain to themfelves ; A/adam Delpine fince her 
 Arrival in England, by A/odeft: Computation; 
 having got by the Stage and Gentry, above 
 1 0000 Guineas 
 
 Note, From Candlemas 1704, to the 2i,d, of 
 April 1 706. There were 4 Plays commanded to 
 be Aited -At Court at St. Jame's, by the yJ/7ors of 
 both Houfcs, viz. 
 
 hivdjAll for Love: Mr. Better ton, ABing Marc. 
 
 Antony ; 
 
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 Antony ; Mx. Vanthrugg^ Ventidius \ Mr. Wilks^ 
 Dolabella; Mx. Booths Alexas the Eunuch; Mrs. 
 Barry .^ Cleopatra] Mrs. Bracegtrdle, 05favia: All 
 the other Parts being exadly done, and the 
 Court very well pleas'd. 
 
 The Second was, Sir Solomon, ^rM^ Cautious 
 Coxcomb : Mr. Betterton., A^ing Sir Solomon ; Mr. 
 Wilks^ Peregrine; Mr. Booth, Yonng Single; Mr. 
 Dogget, Sir Arthur Addle ; Mr. John/on, Juftice 
 JVary ; Mr. Pinkethman^ Ralph; Mr. Under hi II , 
 Timothy; Mrs. Bracegirdle, jH^i^', Mrs.Mounfort^ 
 Betty : The whole being well perform'd, it 
 gave great Satisfaction. 
 
 The next was, The Merry PFives of Windfor, 
 Acted the 2^7*^, of April., the Oueens Coronati- 
 on Day .* Mr. Betterton, Adling Sir John Falfiaff; 
 Sir Hugh, by Mr. Dogget ; Mr. Page, by Mr. 
 Vanbruggen; Mr. Ford, by Mr. Powel; Dr. Cains ^ 
 Mr. Pinkethman ; the Hoft, Mr. Bullock ; Mrs. 
 Page, Mrs. Barry; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Bracegirdle; 
 Mrs. Ann Page, Mrs. Bradjhaw. 
 
 The laft was, The Anatomift, or Sham-Doctor ; 
 it was perform'd on Shrove-T uejday , the Queen's 
 Birth Day, it being done by the ASfors of both 
 Houfes, and perfe6lly Perform'd ; there being 
 an Additional Entertainment in't of the beft 
 Singers and Dancers, Foreign and Englijh : As 
 Margarita D'elpine, Maria Gallia, Mrs. Lind/ey, 
 Mrs. Hud/on and Mr. Leveridge, and others: The 
 Dances were perform'd by Monfieur LtAhbe ; 
 Mr. Ruel; Afonfieur Cherrier; Mrs. Elford;M\{s 
 Campion ; Mrs. Ruel and Devon/hire Girl: Twas 
 very well lik'd by the whole Court. 
 
 About the end of 1 704, Mr. BettertonAffign'd 
 his Licenfe, and his whole Company over to 
 
 Captain 
 
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 Captain Vanthrugg to AB under HIS, at the 
 Theatre in the Hay Market. 
 
 And upon tht gth^ oi April 1705. Captain 
 Vantbrugg open'd his new Theatre in the Hay- 
 Market^ with a Foreign Opera, Perform'd by 
 a new fet of Singers, Arriv'd from Italy ; ( the 
 worfl that e're came from thence ) for it lafted 
 but 5 Days, and they being lik'd but indiffe- 
 rently by the Gentry ; they in a little time 
 marcht back to their own Country. 
 
 The firft Play A5fed there, was 'The Game/ler. 
 Then theJVanton Wife. Next, Duke and no Duke. 
 After that, She 'wou'd, if She Cou'd\ and half a Score 
 of their old Plays, A5led in old Cloaths, the 
 Company brought from Lincolns-Inn-Fields. The 
 Audiencies falling off extremly with enter- 
 taining the Gentry with fuch old Ware, 
 whereas, had they Open'd the Houfe at firft, 
 with a good new EnglifJi Opera, or a new Play ; 
 they wou'd have preferv'd the Favour of Court 
 and City, and gain'd Reputation and Profit to 
 themfelves. 
 
 The firft new Play A^ed there. Was the Con- 
 qiiefl of Spain ; the beginning of May 1705, 
 Written by Mrs. 7'/.v, it had not the life of a 
 Stock-Play, for it Expir'd the 6//;, Day. 
 
 The next new one was Ulyffes, wrote by Mr. 
 Row : The Play being all new Cloath'd, and 
 Excellently well perform'd had a Succefsful run, 
 but fell ftiort of his Ambitious Step-Mother^ and 
 his Tamerlane. 
 
 Then was A5fed a Comedy call'd the Confede- 
 racy^ wrote by Captain Vantbrugg., an Kxcel- 
 Icnt Witty Play, and all Parts very well Aoled: 
 But the Nice Criticks Cenfure was, it wanted juft 
 Decorum, made it flag at laft Trclooby 
 
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 Trelooby a Farce^ Wrote by Q^i^tdanVantbrugg: 
 My. Congreve and Mr. JValJhy Mr. Dogget Ading 
 Treloohy fo well, the whole was highly Ap- 
 plauded, 
 
 The Mi/iake, Wrote by Captain Vantbrugg ; 
 a very diverting Comedy, Witty and good 
 Humour in't, but will fcarce be EnroU'd a 
 Stock-Play. 
 
 The next new Play was, The Revolution of 
 Sweden ; Wrote by Mrs. Trotter^ fhe kept clofe 
 to the Hiftory, but wanting the juft Decorum 
 of Plays, expir'd the Sixth Day. 
 
 Then a new Opera call'd, The Britijh Enchan- 
 ters^ Wrote by the Honourable Mr. GeorgeGreen- 
 vil ; very Exquifitly done, efpecially the Sing- 
 ing Part; making Love the Acme of all Ter- 
 reftrial Blifs : Which infinitely arrided both 
 Sexes, and pleas'd the Town as well as any 
 Englijh Modern Opera. 
 
 After this was perform'd, an Opera, call'd 
 The Temple of Love ; confifting all of Singing 
 and Dancing : The Singing Compos'd by 
 Monfieur Sidgeon : The Verfion into Englifj^ by 
 Monfieur Moteux from the Italian : The Sing- 
 ing perform'd by Mr. Laurence^ Mr. Laroon, Mr. 
 Cook, Mrs. Bracegirdle, Maria Gallia, and feve- 
 ral other Men and Women for the Chorus's : 
 The Dances, made and perform'd all by French- 
 Men ; it lafted but Six Days, and anfwer'd not 
 their Expedlation. 
 
 The laft Opera was, The Kingdom of Birds ; 
 made by Mr. Durfey, perform'd in July, 1706. 
 The Singers in't were, Mr. Cook, Mr. Laroon, 
 Mr. Laurence, Mrs. Hud/on and others : Dancers 
 were, Monfieur Be Bargues, Monfieur L Abbes 
 E Brother, 
 
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 (50) 
 
 Brother, Mr. Fairbanks Mrs. Elf or d and others : 
 It lafted only Six Days, not anfwering half the 
 Expences of it. 
 
 After this. Captain Vanthrugg gave leave to 
 Mr. Verbruggen and Mr. Booth, and all the 
 Young Company, to A(5t the remainder of 
 the Summer, what Plays they cou'd by their 
 Induftry get up for their own Benefit ; continu- 
 ing till 5<«r//^/9/6l;««?•I£;-£^'f, 23 (^,of^//|-/</?, I 7o6,end- 
 ing on that Day, with The London Cuckolds: But 
 in all that time their Profit Amounted not to 
 halftheir Salaries, they receiv'd in Winter. 
 
 From Bartholomew day i 706, to the 1 5/^, of 
 05lob. following, there was no more Acting there. 
 
 In this Interval Captain Vanthrugg by A- 
 greement with Mr. Swi}tny, and by the Con- 
 currence of my Lord Chamberlain, Trans- 
 ferr'd and Inverted his Licenfe and Govern- 
 ment of the Theatre to Mr. Sii-hwy ; who 
 brought with him from Mr. Rich, Mr. IVilks, 
 Mr. Cyber, Mr. Mills, Mr. John/on, Mr. Keene, 
 Mr.AWrisM^-Fairbarjk,Mi:s.OLl/jelcla.ndothQrs; 
 United them to the Old Company; Mr. Bet /er ton 
 and Mr. Underhill, being the only remains of the 
 Duke of iV/f'j Servants, from 1662, till theUnion 
 in Oflober 1 706. Now having given an Account of 
 all the Principal Adtorsand Plays, down to 1706. 
 I with the {aid Union, conclude my Hiftory. 
 
 ISlext follows the Account of the prefent ToungCom- 
 pany ( which United with the Old, in Odober, 
 I 706. ) NowA£fing at the Theatre Royal /;/Dru- 
 ry Lane ; Her Majejlfs Company of Comedians, 
 under the Government of Col. Brett. 
 
 Mr. IVilks, 
 
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 Mr. J'Filks, Proper and Comely in Perfon, 
 of Graceful Port, Mein and Air ; void 
 ol Affeilation ; his Elevations and Cadencies 
 juft, Congruent to Elocution : Efpecially in 
 Gentile Comedy ; not Inferior in Tragedy. 
 The Emiffion of his Words free, eafy and na- 
 tural ; Attrading attentive filence in his Audi- 
 ence, ( I mean the Judicious ) except where 
 there are Unnatural Rants, As, 
 
 -Pie mount the Sky, 
 
 And kick the G — ds like Foot-balls , as Ifly : 
 
 As Poet Z) — rfy has it, 
 
 PFhich puts the Voice to/uch Odjlrepcrous Jiretch, 
 Requires the Lungs of a Smith'j Bellows to reach. 
 
 He is indeed the finifht Copy of his Famous 
 
 Predeceffor, Mr. Charles Hart. 
 
 Mr. Cyber, A Gentleman of his time has Ar- 
 riv'd to an exceeding Perfedlion, in hitting 
 juflly the Humour of a ftarcht Beau, or Fop ; 
 as the Lord Fopington-, Sir Fopling and S^vc Courtly, 
 equalling in the laft, the late Eminent Mr. 
 Mounfort, not much Inferior in Tragedy, had 
 Nature given him Lungs Strenuous to his finifht 
 Judgment. 
 
 Mr. EJcourt ,HiJirio Flatus ; he has the Honour 
 ( Nature enduing him with an eafy, free, un- 
 affected Mode of Elocution ) in Comedy a - 
 ways to Lastificate his Audience, efpecially 
 Quality, ( Witnefs Serjeant Kyte ) He's not 
 Excellent only in that, but a Superlative Mi- 
 mick. E 2 Mr. 
 
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 Mr. Booths A Gentleman of Liberal Education, of form Venuft ; 
 of Mellifluent Pronuntiation, having proper Gefticulations, which 
 are Graceful Atteada nts of true Elocution ; of liis time a most Com- 
 pleat Tragedian. 
 
 Mr. John/on, He's Skilful in the Art of Painting, which is a 
 great Adjument, veiy Promovcnt to the Art of true Elocution, 
 which is always requirable in him, that bears the Name of an Ac- 
 tor ; he has the Happinefs to gain Applaufe from Court and Ci- 
 ty : Witnefs, Moro/e, Corhaccio, Mr. Hothead and feveral others ; 
 He is a true Copy of Mr. Underliill, whom Sir William Dave' 
 nant judg'd 40 Year ago in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, the truefl Come- 
 dian in his Company. 
 
 Mr. Doggct, On the Stage, he's very Afpe(flabund, wearing a 
 P'arce in his Face; his Thoughts deliberately framing his Utte- 
 rance Congruous to his Looks : He is the only Comick Original 
 now Extant : Witnefs, Ben. Solon, Nikin, The yew of Venict, Ac. 
 
 Mr. Pinkdhman, He's the darling of Fortunatits, he has gain'd 
 more in Theatres and Fairs in Twelve Years, than thofe that 
 have Tugg'd at the Oar of Acfting thefe 50. 
 
 Next Mr. Mills, Mr. Powel, Mr. Bullock ; the 2 firft Excell in 
 Tragedy ; the other in Comedy, ^c. 
 
 I mull not Omit Praifes due to Mr. Betterton. Hit fir/} and no'M 
 only remain of the old Stock, of the Company of Sir William Da- 
 venant in Lincolns-Inn Fields ; he like an old Stately Spreading 
 Oak noao flands fixt. Environ' d round 7vitk braz'e Youn^^ Growing, 
 Fknu-ifJiing Plants: There needs nothing to f peak his Fame, more 
 than the follo7uing Parts, 
 
 Pericles Prince of Tyre. 
 The Bondman. 
 Cafar Borgia. 
 The LoyarSubjedt. 
 The Mad Lover. 
 Richard the Third, 
 King Lear. 
 
 Solyman the Magnificent. 
 
 Hamlet. 
 
 Macbeth. 
 
 Timon of Athens. 
 
 Othello. 
 
 Oedipus. 
 
 Jaffeu: 
 
 King Henry the Eighth. 
 
 .S/r John Falflaff. 
 
 Mr, Dryden a little before his Death in a Prologue, rendring him 
 this PRAISE. 
 
 He like thefctting Sun,flilljlioots a Glimmery Kay, 
 Like Antient R .M E Mayjlick in decay. 
 
 FINIS 
 
 _^ 
 
S DECLARATION I 
 
 J Of The %. 
 
 J LORDS and COMMONS J 
 1^ Aflembled in Parliamem, X 
 
 S. For the appeafing and quietting of ^ 
 
 rog^ all unlawfull Tumults and Infurredions in "^ 
 
 <t^ the feverall Counties of England, and ^ 
 
 «^ Dominion of Wales. ^ 
 
 ^' ^ 
 
 4^ Die Veneris^ Septemb. 2. 1642. ^ 
 
 ^^ Ordered by the Lords and Commons aAffembled in Par- ■*^* 
 
 ^^ liament, that this Declaration JJiall be forthwith Printed, and ^^ 
 
 ^fij, afterwards publifhed in all Market Townes^ Parish Chur- ^« 
 
 ^ f/?^j, ^«^ Chappels, within the Kingdome of England, and ^^ 
 
 ^^ Dominion of Wales, and efpecially in the County of EfTex. ^^ 
 
 ^ lohn Browne Cler. Parliament. ^ 
 
 ^ ^ 
 
 Ǥ^ Alfo an Ordinance of both Houfes, ^ 
 
 1^ for the fuppresfing of Stage-Playes. ^ 
 
 ^z^, ~ 1^^ 
 
 ^v Ordered by the Lords and Commons, that this Order be forth- ^^ 
 ^^ with printed and publiflied. |^ 
 
 lohn Browne, Cler. Parliament. ^>, 
 
 Septemb. 3. London Printed for lohn Wright. 1642. ^51 
 
Die Veneris 2 Septem. 1 642. 
 
 A Declaration of the LORDS 
 
 and Commons Aflembled in 
 
 Parliament. 
 
 [e Lords and Commons 
 having lately fent Sir 
 'Thomas Barrington, and M. 
 \^k Grymjione, into the Coun- 
 ty of EJfezy for the appea- 
 I ling and quieting of di- 
 g vers AfTemblies of peo- 
 jlple gathered together in 
 ■g in great bodies , w^ho had 
 much damnified the hou- 
 ies, and taken the goods of divers perlbns without 
 Law or other authority; And having received a re- 
 port from Sir Thomas Barrington^ being returned, 
 
 A 2 that 
 
that the peopleupon thefirfl: knowledgegiventhem 
 that the Parliament required theyfliouldforbearthe 
 fearchins: of any houfes for Armes and Ammuni- 
 tion, or the taking goods out of any Houfe other- 
 wife then is or fhall be dire(5ted by the Parliament, 
 or without the affiftance of fome ofthofe perfons 
 who are by both Houfes of Parliament declared 
 that they ought to be prefent ; The people did 
 thereupon prefently yeeld obedience and with- 
 drew themfelves in a peaceable manner, and as they 
 were required, did make reftitution of Plate, Mo- 
 ney, and many other goods by them taken from 
 fuch as were pretended popifli Recufants, and o- 
 ther malignant perfons, and that they had expref- 
 fed great zeal and forwardnefle to comply with 
 the directions of Parliament for the future. The 
 r^^-^ Lords and Commons doe declare, that they re- 
 ■TH' fcent the aforefaid exprefTions of the people, and 
 
 ^RSf r / i their ready obedience, as a teftimony of that duti- 
 ^£SN^i><^ full affedion which they beare to the Parliament, 
 and to the prefent fervice of the Kingdome, & doe 
 hereby order and declare, that all persons whofoe- 
 ver,that have taken either Mony Plate or any other 
 Goods out of the Houfe or Houfes, or ftom the 
 perfons of any whofoevet, without the fpcciall 
 commaud or Order of both, or either Houfe of 
 Parliamentjdiall forthwith reftore the fame to the 
 parties, from whome they were taken, or other- 
 wife be proceeded againll,as the Lords and Com- 
 mons (hall furthcrdircO, upon complaiut made, 
 1 And 
 
And as both Houfes of Parliament have beene,and 
 will be very careful! to preferve the peace of the 
 Kingdome, by difarming of all Recufants,and fuch 
 others as fhall be knowne or juftly fulpecSted to be 
 enemies thereunto, and to the pious and good en- 
 deavours of this Parliament; And to that purpofe 
 have by a Declaration paffed by affent of both 
 Houfes, the three and tw^entieth oi Augud laft, ex- 
 preiled what perlbns fhall be inrrufted for the ma- 
 naging of that fervice ; They doe thereby further 
 Order and Command, that no perfon doe prefume 
 either alone,or accompanied with others,to break 
 or violently enter the Houfe of any whatloever, 
 under colour of pretence of difarming Recufants 
 or other perfon s pretended to be enemies to the 
 peace of the Kingdome ; without the particular 
 command of fuch as are intrufted or deputed by 
 the Parliament, And it is further declared,that fpe- 
 ciall and fpeedy care be taken therein, for the ie- 
 curity of the Kingdome ; and particularly for the 
 County of EJfex, from whom they have received 
 fo many expreisions of their duty to the fervice of 
 the publike, though the Parliament cannot but let 
 them know,that feverall violent actions by fome of 
 them unwarrantably committed,are extreamly dif- 
 allowed;but as the Lords and Commons declare , 
 that they fhall be ever ready to give afsiftance, and 
 protection to all fuch as fhall obey the commands 
 of both, or either Houfes of Parliament , fo they 
 doe refolve, that they will inflid: exemplary pu- 
 
 A 3 nifhment 
 
nifhment on all fuch according to their feverall 
 demerits, as fhall be refra(5tory and difobedient to 
 thefe their commands made knovvne to them; and 
 by all good wayes, and meanes will further endea- 
 vour to bring them to a legall tryall for fuch their 
 Offences; But for the incouragement of thofe who 
 have beene forward, and a(ftive in the fervice of the 
 Common-wealth, It is thought fit to give them 
 notice, that thofe eight Horfes taken from Sir 
 John Lucas, and brought up to the Parliament by 
 Sir Thomas Barritjgton, and intended by Sir John 
 Lucas, for the ftrengthning of a Malignant party, 
 and are delivered by command to the Lord Gene- 
 rail to be by him imployed for the prefervation 
 of the Kingdome, and the Parliament hath caufed 
 the fame Sir lohn Lucas, and M. Newcomeny to bee 
 committed to feverall prifons; And it is Refolved, 
 that they fliall be brought to their feveralls tiyalls 
 and receive fuch punilliment as Ihall appeare to be 
 juft according to their demerits. And like pro- 
 ceedings fliall be had againll: all fuch as Ihall be 
 found difturbers of the peace of that County. 
 
 Die 
 
An Order of the Lords and Commons concerning 
 Stage-playes. 
 
 WHereas the diftrefled E- 
 ftate of Ireland, fteeped 
 in her own Blood, and the diftra- 
 £led Eftate of England,threatned 
 with a Cloud of Blood, by a Ci- 
 vil! Warre, call for all pofTible 
 meanes to appeafe and avert the 
 Wrath of God appearing in thefe 
 Judgements ; amongft which, Fa- 
 iling and Prayer having bin often 
 tryed to be very effe^luall, have 
 bin lately, and are ftill ejoyned ; 
 and whereas publike Sports doe 
 not well agree with publike 
 Calamities, nor publike Stage- 
 playes with the Seafons of Hu- 
 miliation, this being an Exercife 
 of fad and pious folemnity, and 
 the other being Spectacles of 
 
 pleafure 
 
pleafure, too commonly expref- 
 fing laciuious Mirth and Levitie: 
 It is therefore thought fit,and Or- 
 deined by the Lords and Com- 
 mons in this Parliament Aflem- 
 bled, that while thefe fad Caufes 
 and fet times of Humiliation doe 
 continue, publike Stage-Playes 
 fliall ceafe,and bee forborne. In- 
 ftead of which, are recommended 
 to the people of this Land, the 
 profitable and feafonable Confi- 
 derations of Repentance, Recon- 
 ciliation, and peace with God, 
 which probably may produce 
 outward peaceandprofperity,and 
 bring againe Times of Joy and 
 Gladnefle to thefe Nations. 
 
 Die Veneris, Septemb. 2. 1642. 
 Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament^ 
 thai this Order be forthwith Printed and published. 
 
 John Browne Cler. Pari. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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