Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of his Majesty. [The Assembly at the Temple of Taste in the Five Bell's tavern (see 20 Feb.) received a puff this day: 'On Thursday Night there was a brilliant appearance of Ladies and Gentlemen, at the opening of the Temple of Taste, who express'd much Satisfaction at the entertainment they met with, which was not only instructive, but extremely polite and pleasing; if any Complaint was made, it was that (nothwithstanding is lasted full three hours) instead of being tir'd with the Performance, as at many Publick exhibitions, they seem'd to think they had too little of it; As we are always glad to embrace any Opportunity of shewing our zeal for the Service of the Publick, we can but applaud an Undertaking than which nothing appears more rational and better calculated for the general good" (General Advertiser).

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow & Children (Cross), who are fallen into great distress (Winston MS 8). Tickets to be had at Mr Gladman's, a Trunk-maker, Charing Cross; at the Amsterdam Coffee House, behind the Exchange; at the Rainbow and Janeways in Cornhill; at Anderton's and the Temple-Exchange, in Fleet St.; at George's, Temple Bar; Somerset Coffee House, Strand and at Stage Door of the Theatre. Receipts: #97 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow Vince (Cross). Tickets at Temple-Exchange Coffee House; Fleet St.; Mr Hanson's, Poulterer, Corner Fleet Market; the Cock at Temple Bar, and at Stage Door (playbill). This night Mr Foote open'd an Oratory against Macklin at ye little Haymarket House--great crowd-great Applause (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Event Comment: 6 Feb. 1659@60: Music, three nights, and acting The Clown #6 (A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 168)

Event Comment: See Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 169, for a fee of #20 paid to Sir William Davenant's@company, the receipt being signed by Richard Baddeley; and for #1 5s. for baize to cover the stage and scenes. The play may well have been Love and Honour

Event Comment: A play, unidentified, was given by the Duke's Company at this time. The customary fee of #20 was paid. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, II

Event Comment: By the King's Company. The fee paid the players was the customary #20. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 16: To Drake, the upholsterer, for a serge Curtain and for hire of a screen on All Hallows day, #1

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of performance is uncertain. The play was entered in the Stationers' Register, 15 Feb. 1663@4, and its publication noted in The Newes, 3 March 1663@4. Katherine Philips, writing from Cardigan, Wales to Lady Temple in London, 24 Jan. 1663@4: I beleive er'e this you have seen the new Pompey either acted or written & then will repent your partiallity to ye other, but I wonder much what preparations for it could prejudice Will Davenant when I heare they acted in English habits, & yt so aprope yt Caesar was sent in with his feather & Muff, till he was hiss'd off ye Stage & for ye Scenes I see not where they could place any yt are very extra-ordinary, but if this play hath not diverted ye Cittizens wives enough Sr W: D: will make amends, for they say Harry ye 8th & some later ones are little better then Puppett-plays. I understand ye confederate-translators are now upon Heraclius, & I am contented yt Sr Tho. Clarges (who hath done that last yeare) should adorn their triumph in it, as I have done in Pompey (Harvard Theatre Collection)

Event Comment: The King's Company. The players received the customary fee of #20. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 25

Event Comment: The King's Players. The company received the usual fee of #20. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 25

Event Comment: An unnamed play was given by the Duke's Company, with the usual fee of #20 received by Thomas Crosse. See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 171

Event Comment: The King's Company. The players receided the customary fee of #20. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 38

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: Then out and walked alone on foot to the Temple, it being a fine frost, thinking to have seen a play all alone; but there, missing of any bills, concluded there was none, and so back home

Event Comment: Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 307, lists The Comical Revenge (the Duke's Company) for the Inner Temple, 2 Feb. 1667@8. As this date falls on Sunday and as the sequence of entires quggests a later date, this performance appears under 2 Feb. 1668@9

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The entry in A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 65, is somewhat ambiguous as to the date of this performance, but as 2 Feb. fell on Sunday in 1667@8, the performance has been assigned to 2 Feb. 1668@9. The play was reprinted in 1669

Event Comment: This entry in A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 65, follows one for a play on 2 Feb. 1668@9, suggesting that this play fell on All Hallows Day. The customary fee of #20 was paid the actors

Event Comment: This play is not certainly indicated as the one given on this day in A Calendar of Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 73; but the sequence of performances listed there suggests that this may have been the play offered on Candlemas Day. The actors received the customary fee of #20

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 73