*p1664 08 13 lif The History of Henry the Fifth. Edition of 1669: King Henry the Fifth-Harris; Duke of Bedford-Underhill; Duke of Exeter-Cogan; Earl of Warwick-Aingel; Bishop of Canterbury-Lylinston [$Lilleston=]; Owen Tudor-Betterton; The Dauphin-Young; Duke of Burgundy-Smith; Earl of Chareloys-Cadiman; Constable of France-James Noke; De Chastel-Norris; Bishop of Arras-Samford; Count of Blamount-Medborne; Monsieur Colemore-Floyd; Queen of France-Mrs Long; Princess Katherine-Mrs Betterton; Princess Anne-Mrs Davis; Countess of La Marr-Mrs Norris.*c1664 08 13 lif The <i>Duke's Company</i>. Pepys does not indicate that this performance is the premiere, and $Summers=, <i>The Playhouse of Pepys</i>, p. 137, states, without offering his evidence, that the play first appeared on 11 Aug. 1664. The play also appears in $Herbert=, <i>Dramatic Records</i>, p. 138. If Pepys saw the premiere, the play was possibly given on 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24 Aug. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: $Mr Creed= dining with me I got him to give my wife and me a play this afternoon, lending him money to do it, which is a fallacy that I have found now once, to avoyde my vowe with, but never to be more practised I swear, and to the new play, at the Duke's house, of <i>Henry the Fifth</i>; a most noule play, writ by my $Lord Orrery=; wherein $Betterton=, $Harris=, and $Ianthe='s parts are most incomparably wrote and done, and the whole play the most full of height and raptures of wit and sense, that ever I heard; having but one incongruity, or what did not please me in it, that is, that <i>King Harry</i>r promises to plead for Tudor to their Mistresse, <i>Princesse Katherine of France</i>r, more than when it comes to it he seems to do; and <i>Tudor</i>r refused by her with some kind of indignity, not with a difficulty and honour that it ought to have been done in to him. $Downes=, <i>Roscius Anglicanus</i>, pp. 27-28: This Play was Splendidly Cloath'd: <i>The King</i>r, in the $Duke of York='s Coronation Suit; <i>Owen Tudor</i>r, in $King Charle's=: <i>Duke of Burgundy</i>r, in the $Lord of Oxford='s, and the rest all New. It was Excellently Perform'd, and Acted 10 Days Successively.