*p1667 04 15 bridges The Change of Crowns. Country Gentleman-Lacy.*c1667 04 15 bridges The <i>King's Company</i>. For an edition of this play from the MS prompt copy, see <i>The Change of Crownes</i>, ed. $F. S. Boas= (<i>Oxford University Press</i>, 1949). For the consequences of $Lacy='s ad libbing, see 16, 20, and 22 April, and 1 May. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: I to the King's house by chance, where a new play: so full as I never saw it; I forced to stand all the while close to the very till I took cold, and many people went away for want of room. $The King= and $Queene=, and $Duke of York= and $Duchesse of York= there, and all the $Court=, and $Sir W. Coventry=. The play called <i>The Change of Crownes</i>; a play of $Ned Howard='s the best that ever I saw at that house, being a great play and serious; only $Lacy= did act the <i>country-gentleman</i>r come up to Court, who do abuse the Court with all the imaginable wit and plainness about selling of places, and doing every thing for money. The play took very much.... $Gervase Jaquis= to the $Earl of Huntington=, 16 April: Here is another play house erected in <i>Hatton buildings</i> called the <i>Duke of Cambridgs play-house</i>, and yester-day his Matie the Duke & many more were at the King's Playe house to see some new thing Acted (<i>Hastings MSS</i>, HA 7654, <i>Huntington Library</i>).