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 (C
ross). [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 C
ross 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 C
ross 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.