29 November 1666

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Theatre: no theater listed
Theatrical Season: 1666-1667
Volume: 1
Comments: Henry Muddiman, 29 Nov. 1666: The Players have upon great proffers of disposing a large share to charitable uses prevailed to have liberty to act at Both Houses, which they begin this day (CSPD, Charles II, clxxcii, 6, in Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 250). A manuscript prologue for the opening of the theatre in Bridges Street is in J. Payne Collier's MS Restoration Stage History, Part I, p. 106, in the Houghton Library, Harvard. The Diary of John Milward, Esq., ed. Caroline Robbins (Cambridge, 1938), p. 49: This day at my coming to the House [of Commons] it moved that plays might be tolerated and acted in the common theatres, and whether any members of the House of Commons should be admitted to go to acts of the playhouses, but it was not resolved

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    *p ?none Comment. *c ?none $Henry Muddiman=, 29 Nov. 1666: The Players have upon great proffers of disposing a large share to charitable uses prevailed to have liberty to act at Both Houses, which they begin this day (<i>CSPD</i>, <i>Charles II</i>, clxxcii, 6, in $Hotson=, <i>Commonwealth and Restoration Stage</i>, p. 250). A manuscript prologue for the opening of the theatre in <i>Bridges Street</i> is in $J. Payne Collier='s <i>MS Restoration Stage History</i>, Part I, p. 106, in the <i>Houghton Library</i>, <i>Harvard</i>. <i>The Diary of John Milward, Esq</i>., ed. $Caroline Robbins= (<i>Cambridge</i>, 1938), p. 49: This day at my coming to the House [of Commons] it moved that plays might be tolerated and acted in the common theatres, and whether any members of the <i>House of Commons</i> should be admitted to go to acts of the playhouses, but it was not resolved.

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    *p1666 11 29 none Comment.*c1666 11 29 none $Henry Muddiman=, 29 Nov. 1666: The Players have upon great proffers of disposing a large share to charitable uses prevailed to have liberty to act at Both Houses, which they begin this day (<i>CSPD</i>, <i>Charles II</i>, clxxcii, 6, in $Hotson=, <i>Commonwealth and Restoration Stage</i>, p. 250). A manuscript prologue for the opening of the theatre in <i>Bridges Street</i> is in $J. Payne Collier='s <i>MS Restoration Stage History</i>, Part I, p. 106, in the <i>Houghton Library</i>, <i>Harvard</i>. <i>The Diary of John Milward, Esq</i>., ed. $Caroline Robbins= (<i>Cambridge</i>, 1938), p. 49: This day at my coming to the House [of Commons] it moved that plays might be tolerated and acted in the common theatres, and whether any members of the <i>House of Commons</i> should be admitted to go to acts of the playhouses, but it was not resolved.

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    Event: 477 | 16661129 | none | $Henry Muddiman=, 29 Nov. 1666: The Players have upon great proffers of disposing a large share to charitable uses prevailed to have liberty to act at Both Houses, which they begin this day (<i>CSPD</i>, <i>Charles II</i>, clxxcii, 6, in $Hotson=, <i>Commonwealth and Restoration Stage</i>, p. 250). A manuscript prologue for the opening of the theatre in <i>Bridges Street</i> is in $J. Payne Collier='s <i>MS Restoration Stage History</i>, Part I, p. 106, in the <i>Houghton Library</i>, <i>Harvard</i>. <i>The Diary of John Milward, Esq</i>., ed. $Caroline Robbins= (<i>Cambridge</i>, 1938), p. 49: This day at my coming to the House [of Commons] it moved that plays might be tolerated and acted in the common theatres, and whether any members of the <i>House of Commons</i> should be admitted to go to acts of the playhouses, but it was not resolved

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