Event Comment: The data in
Langhans,
New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 130-31, leave the acting days uncertain. Between 13 May 1689 and 7 Dec. 1689 the company acted on 91 days. It then played regularly through 8 Feb. 1689@90, and acted on 83 days (out of a possible 84) between 10 Feb. and 7 June, on 8 days from 13 June through 4 July 1690. In Poems on Affairs of S
tate= (Fifth Edition, 1703), I, ii, 238, is A
Prologue spoken by
Mr Mountfort, after he came from the Army, and Acted on the Stage (see also
A. S. Borgman,
The Life and Death of William Mountfort [
Cambridge, Mass., 1935], p. 55). The date at which Mountfort spoke this Prologue is not certain, but he was certainly in
London ca. Tuesday 15 Oct. 1689 when he was involved in a disagreement within the
United Company. See
L. C. 5@192, in
Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 334n