Event Comment: This work is advertised in
The Loyal Protestant 22, 27, and 29 Aug. 1682: at
Mrs Saffry's, a
Dutch Woman's booth, over against the
Greyhound Inne in
West Smithfield. [Her first announcement calls the company "By an Approved Company"; the other two notices refer to it as "the first
New-market Company." See
Rosenfeld,
The Theatre of the London Fairs, p. 6.]
John Coysh paid #6 for a booth at the Fair (Rosenfeld, The Theatre of the London Fairs, p. 6). See also
Morley,
Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair, p. 222, for notice of the
Indian Water Worksv. In
Wit and Drollery (1682), p. 304, are verses on the Fair: @Here's the Whore of Babylon the Devil and the Pope,@The Girl is just agoing on the Rope@Here's Dives and Lazarus and the World's Creation,@Here's the Tall Dutch Woman the like's not in the Nation,@Here is the Booth where the High-Dutch Made is@Hear are the Bears that dance like any Ladies,@Tat, tat, tat, tat, tat says the little penny Trumpet@Here's Jacob Hall, that does so jump it, jump it.@Sound Trumpet Sound, for Silver Spoon and Fork,@Come here's your dainty Pit and Pork.@ [See also August 1680.
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Irish Evidence, The Humours Of Tiege; Or, The Mercenary Whore