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April 1689

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Theatre: Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre
Theatrical Season: 1688-1689
Volume: 1
Comments: The United Company. On 23 April 1689 Luttrell purchased a copy of the Prologue. The broadside copy, with Luttrell's date of acquisition, is in the possession of Mr Louis Silver, Wilmette, Illinois, to whose courtesy I am indebted for permission to use this date. When the Prologue, which is reprinted in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 271-72, appeared in The Fourth and Last Volume of the Works of Mr Tho. Brown (1719), the Prologue has the title: Jo. Haines in Penance; Or, his Recantation-Prologue, at his acting of Poet Bays in the Duke of Buckingham's Play call'd The Rehearsal. Spoken in a white Sheet, with a burning Taper in his Hand, upon his Admittance in to the House after his Return from the Church of Rome. In the Preface to his play, The Fatal Mistake (1691-92), Haines stated: In troth I have Acted Mr Bays so often, and so feelingly, that I could not possibly forbear copying after so fair an Original

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    *p-`dlordg The Rehearsal. Bayes-Haines. [$Mr Haynes= His Recantation-Prologue Upon his first Appearance on the Stage After His Return from <i>Rome</i>.% *c-`dlordg The <i>United Company</i>. On 23 April 1689 $Luttrell= purchased a copy of the <i>Prologue</i>. The broadside copy, with Luttrell's date of acquisition, is in the possession of $Mr Louis Silver=, <i>Wilmette, Illinois</i>, to whose courtesy I am indebted for permission to use this date. When the Prologue, which is reprinted in <i>Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues</i>, pp. 271-72, appeared in <i>The Fourth and Last Volume of the Works of Mr Tho. Brown</i> (1719), the Prologue has the title: <i>Jo. Haines in Penance; Or, his Recantation-Prologue</i>, at his acting of <i>Poet Bays</i> in the $Duke of Buckingham='s Play call'd <i>The Rehearsal</i>. Spoken in a white Sheet, with a burning Taper in his Hand, upon his Admittance in to the House after his Return from the $Church of Rome=. In the Preface to his play, <i>The Fatal Mistake</i> (1691-92), Haines stated: In troth I have Acted Mr Bays so often, and so feelingly, that I could not possibly forbear copying after so fair an Original.
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    *p1689 04 00 dlordg The Rehearsal. Bayes-Haines. $Mr Haynes= His Recantation-Prologue Upon his first Appearance on the Stage After His Return from <i>Rome</i>.*c1689 04 00 dlordg The <i>United Company</i>. On 23 April 1689 $Luttrell= purchased a copy of the <i>Prologue</i>. The broadside copy, with Luttrell's date of acquisition, is in the possession of $Mr Louis Silver=, <i>Wilmette, Illinois</i>, to whose courtesy I am indebted for permission to use this date. When the Prologue, which is reprinted in <i>Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues</i>, pp. 271-72, appeared in <i>The Fourth and Last Volume of the Works of Mr Tho. Brown</i> (1719), the Prologue has the title: <i>Jo. Haines in Penance; Or, his Recantation-Prologue</i>, at his acting of <i>Poet Bays</i> in the $Duke of Buckingham='s Play call'd <i>The Rehearsal</i>. Spoken in a white Sheet, with a burning Taper in his Hand, upon his Admittance in to the House after his Return from the $Church of Rome=. In the Preface to his play, <i>The Fatal Mistake</i> (1691-92), Haines stated: In troth I have Acted Mr Bays so often, and so feelingly, that I could not possibly forbear copying after so fair an Original.
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    Event: 1716 | 16890400 | dlordg | The <i>United Company</i>. On 23 April 1689 $Luttrell= purchased a copy of the <i>Prologue</i>. The broadside copy, with Luttrell's date of acquisition, is in the possession of $Mr Louis Silver=, <i>Wilmette, Illinois</i>, to whose courtesy I am indebted for permission to use this date. When the Prologue, which is reprinted in <i>Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues</i>, pp. 271-72, appeared in <i>The Fourth and Last Volume of the Works of Mr Tho. Brown</i> (1719), the Prologue has the title: <i>Jo. Haines in Penance; Or, his Recantation-Prologue</i>, at his acting of <i>Poet Bays</i> in the $Duke of Buckingham='s Play call'd <i>The Rehearsal</i>. Spoken in a white Sheet, with a burning Taper in his Hand, upon his Admittance in to the House after his Return from the $Church of Rome=. In the Preface to his play, <i>The Fatal Mistake</i> (1691-92), Haines stated: In troth I have Acted Mr Bays so often, and so feelingly, that I could not possibly forbear copying after so fair an Original
    Performance: 1721 | 1716 | p | The Rehearsal | Bayes-Haines. $Mr Haynes= His Recantation-Prologue Upon his first Appearance on the Stage After His Return from <i>Rome</i>.
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    2771 | 1721 | Bayes | Haines. $Mr Haynes= His Recantation-Prologue Upon his first Appearance on the Stage After His Return from <i>Rome</i>.
    2772 | 1721 | His Recantation | Prologue Upon his first Appearance on the Stage After His Return from <i>Rome</i>.

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Bayes-Haines. Mr Haynes His Recantation-Prologue Upon his first Appearance on the Stage After His Return from Rome.

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