*p1693 04 00 dl The Richmond Heiress; or, A Woman Once in the Right. Edition of 1693: Sir Charles Romance-Freeman; Sir Quibble Quere-Bright; Tom Romance-Powel; Dr Guiacum-Sandford; Frederick-Williams; Rice ap Shinken-Bowman; Dick Stockjobb-Underhill; Hotspur-Hudson [$Hodgson=]; Quickwit-Dogget; Cummington-Bowen; Fulvia-Mrs Bracegirdle; Sophronia-Mrs Barry; Mrs Stockjobb-Mrs Bowman; Madam Squeamish-Mrs Knight; Marmalette-Mrs Lee; Prologue-Mr Dogget [with a Fools Cap with Bells on his Head; Epilogue-.*c1693 04 00 dl The <i>United Company</i>. The date of the first performance is not precisely known, but by 9 May 1693 it had been acted four times (see $Dryden='s letter, below); on the other hand, the <i>Gentleman's Journal</i>, February 1692@3 (issued in March) had stated that $D'Urfey='s new farce would not appear until after <i>Easter</i>. Hence, it may well have been the first new play after <i>Passion Week</i>. A dialogue, <i>Behold, the man with that gigantick might</i>, the music by $Henry Purcell= and sung by $Mr Reading= and $Mrs Ayliff=, is in <i>Orpheus Britannicus</i>, 1690. See <i>Purcell's Works</i>, <i>Purcell Society</i>, XXI (1917), viii-x. A dialogue, <i>By these pigsnes eyes that stars do seem</i>, the music by $John Eccles= and sung by $Dogget= and $Mrs Bracegirdle=, is in <i>Joyful Cuckoldom</i>, ca. 1695. Another, <i>Stubborn church division, folly, and ambition</i>, to a Ground of $Mr Solomon Eccles=, is in <i>Thesaurus Musicus</i>, 1694. And <i>Maiden fresh as a rose</i>, the verse by D'Urfey and sung by $Pack=, but not printed in the play, is in <i>The Merry Musician</i>, I (1716), 56-57. This last song may have been for a later revival. <i>Gentleman's Journal</i>, April 1693 (issued in May 1693): Since my last we have had a Comedy by Mr Durfey; 'tis called the <i>Richmond Heiress or a Woman once in the right</i> (p. 130). $Dryden= to $Walsh=, 9 May 1693: Durfey has brought another farce upon the Stage: but his luck has left him: it was sufferd but foure dayes; and then kickd off for ever. Yet his Second Act, was wonderfully diverting; where the scene was in Bedlam: & Mrs Bracegirdle and <i>Solon</i> [$Dogget=] were both mad: the Singing was wonderfully good, And the two whom I nam'd, sung better than $Redding= and Mrs Ayloff, whose trade it was: at least our partiality carryed it for them. The rest was woeful stuff, & concluded with Catcalls; for which the two noble $Dukes of Richmond and St@Albans= were chief managers (<i>The Letters of John Dryden</i>, pp. 52-53).