*p1682 11 16 dl Title Unknown. <i>Prologue To the $King</i> and $Queen= At the Opening of Their Theatre by $Mr Dryden=-Mr Batterton; Epilogue by the same Authour-Mr Smith.*c1682 11 16 dl The <i>United Company</i>. There is uncertainty concerning this date; it appears on $Luttrell='s copy (<i>Huntington Library</i>) of the separately printed <i>Prologue</i> and <i>Epilogue</i>, and the date may represent the time of his purchase rather than a date of performance. The Prologue and Epilogue are reprinted in $Wiley=, <i>Rare Prologues and Epilogues</i>, pp. 141-45. $Downes= (<i>Roscius Anglicanus</i>, pp. 39-40): All the preceding Plays, being the chief that were Acted in <i>Dorset-Garden</i>, from November 1671, to the Year 1682; at which time the Patentees of each Company United Patents; and by so Incorporating the <i>Duke's Company</i> were made the <i>King's Company</i>, and immediately remov'd to the Theatre Royal in <i>Drury-Lane</i>. Upon this Union, $Mr Hart= being the Heart of the Company under $Mr Killigrew='s Patent never Acted more, by reason of his Malady; being Afflicted with the Stone and Gravel, of which he Dy'd some time after: Having a Sallary of 40 Shillings a Week to the Day of his Death. But the Remnant of that Company; as, $Major Mohun=, $Mr Cartwright=, $Mr Kynaston=, $Mr Griffin=, $Mr Goodman=, $Mr Duke Watson=, $Mr Powel, Sr=, $Mr Wiltshire=, $Mrs Corey=, $Mrs Bowtell=, $Mrs Cook=, $Mrs Montfort=. [Joined the new company]. Note, now Mr Monfort and $Mr Carlile=, were grown to the Maturity of good Actors. The mixt Company then Reviv'd the several old and Modern Plays, that were the Propriety of $Mr Killigrew=, as <i>Rule a Wife, and have a Wife</i>: $Mr Betterton= Acting <i>Michael Perez</i>r; <i>Don Leon</i>r, $Mr Smith=, <i>Cacofogo</i>r, $Mr Cartwright=: <i>Margaretta</i>r, $Mrs Barry=: <i>Estiphania</i>r, $Mrs Cook=. Next, @<i>The Scornful Lady</i>.@<i>The Plain Dealer</i>.@<i>The Mock Astrologer</i>.@<i>The Jovial Crew</i>.@<i>The Beggars Bush</i>.@<i>Bartholomew-Fair</i>.@<i>The Moor of Venice</i>.@<i>Rollo</i>.@<i>The Humorous Lieutenant</i>.@<i>The Double Marriage</i>.@ With divers others. $George Powell=, Preface to <i>The Treacherous Brothers</i> (1690): The Time was, upon the uniting of the Two Theatres, that the Reviveing of the old stock of Plays, so ingrost the study of the House, that the Poets lay dorment; and a new Play cou'd hardly get admittance, amongst the more precious pieces of Antiquity, that then waited to walk the Stage. <i>Cibber, Apology</i>, ed. $Lowe=, I, 95-96): I shall content myself with telling you that Mohun and Hart now growing old [for, above thirty Years before this Time, they had severally born the King's Commission of Major and Captain in the <i>Civil Wars</i>), and the younger Actors, as $Goodman=, $Clark=, and others, being impatient to get into their Parts, and growing intractable, the Audiences too of both Houses then falling off, the Patentees of each, by the King's Advice, which perhaps amounted to a Command, united their Interests and both Companies into one, exclusive of all others in the Year 1682. This Union was, however, so much in favour of the Duke's Company, that Hart left the Stage upon it, and Mohun survived not long after.