Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 30 May: Some of the Patentees of [
dl] having thought fit, at Midnight on Saturday last, to give a very extraordinary Instance of the Wisdom
and Justice of their Conduct,
and of their Capacity for the Management they had undertaken, did also in Justification of their Proceedings, publish
and disperse on Monday last, a printed Paper, containing several unjust
and false Suggestions
and Misrepresentations almost in every Particular, of their own Conduct,
and the Case
and Intention of the present
Company of Comedians, who, in humble Duty...do intend very speedily by plain Matters of Fact, to set the whole affair in a just
and clear Light. [See 4 June for a statement by the Patentees.
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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal
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Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham