Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. My oath &
Mrs Simson's appear'd in ye G: Advertiser, &
Mr Fitzpatrick now swore (in ye
Inspector) to what before he had given his Honour to--when
Woodward appear'd in ye Pant: great Noise, he said gentlemen, if you think the two affidavids to-day not sufficient I will corroberate 'em on
Monday with six or Seven more. quiet on Sunday Mr Fitz: waited on
Lord Chamberlain, to complain of Woodward's Insolence, my Lord sent for
Garrick who told ye whole Story; & upon Mr Fitz owing he threw an apple at him, my Lord said, that act put upon a Footing with ye lowest, & judg'd him the Agressor,--upon wch Fitz; desir'd all affidavids &c shoul'd cease & he wou'd drop his resentment. which was done (
Cross). Receipts: #100 (Cross). [In the General Advertiser appeared (1)
Letter to the Public from Woodward disclaiming any note of insolence, and accusing Fitzpatrick of having a bad memory; (2) an Affidavit from Cross that he was present and heard Woodward say distincly "Sir I thank you," without any air of menace. He heard this from his prompter's seat "next adjoining the Stage box call'd the
Prince of Wale's box"; (3) an Affidavit from
Mrs Elizabeth Simson, who was standing in the "First entrance next the stage door, on the Prompter's side," that she heard what Cross Heard and no more, and understood no air of Menace to be present. In the
General Advertiser also appeared a letter from one
T. C. explaining the approach of
Birnam Wood to
Dunsinane in
Macbeth on the basis of a story told him by a Scots Laird of a nearby castle, to the effect that the Clans used to distinguish themselves in battle by sprays from different trees attached to their bonnets. From this T. C. developed a theory that Macbeth's experience was one of historical face rather tahn a figment of
Shakespeare's imagination.