Event Comment: As it was altered by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: Benefit Wm. Mills and Mrs Mills. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master, and the Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons. Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Henderson. Pit and Boxes will be laid together. Ladies and Gentlemen are most earnestly requested to come early, to prevent Inconvenience in getting to their Places, and to send their Servants to keep them by Four o'clock. [Prologue by Arthur Murphy {Works, 1786, VII, 369).] Morning Herald, 14 Feb.: Tickets to be had at the house of the late Mr Henderson [see 8 Nov. 1785], Buckingham-street, York Buildings. "The poetical address delivered by Mrs Siddons before the play was written by Murphy, and was so very dull that we will charitably suppose his feelings obstructed the operation of his fancy" (General Advertiser, 27 Feb.). Receipts: #141 9s. 6d. (140/15/0; 0/14/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: free)

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. There is no certainty that this performance is the premiere, but as the play was licensed for printing on 9 Jan. 1676@7, this performance may well be the first one. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, pp.9-10) lists the same cast except for the ommission of Letice. It is not certain which Mrs Knight played Letice. Possibly it was Frances Maria Knight (see Wilson, All the King's Ladies, where she is tentatively listed for that role), but the presence of Mrs Ursula Knight on an undated L. C. list, 3@24, with the date of her swearing into the company given as 12 March 1676@7, it is quite likely that she played this role. (I owe this reference to Ursula Knight to Professor John Harold Wilson.) John Dennis: And when upon the first representations of the Plain Dealer, the Town, as The Authour has often told me, appeard Doubtful what Judgment to Form of it; the foremention'd gentlemen [The Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Rochester, Earl of Dorset, Earl of Mulgrave, Savil, Buckly, Sir John Denham, Waller] by their loud aprobation of it, gave it both a sudden and a lasting reputation (Defense and Defects of Dramatick Poetry, 1725, in The Works of John Dennis, ed. Hooker, II, 277)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was Alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham. Afterpiece: Revis'd with Alterations

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was Alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was Alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Wantlow; By Their Royal Highness's Command. Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: Not Acted these Eight Years. Written by Shakespear. Containing, the Death of the Duke of Buckingham. The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey. The Divorce, and Death of Queen Catherine. The Coronation of Queen Anne Bullen, and the Christning of Queen Elizabeth. With Decorations proper to the Play. [The Prince of Wales present.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was Alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham. Pit and Boxes together at 5s. Note, to prevent the Company's waiting, none but the Gallery Doors will be opened till 5 a Clock

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing in Grotesque Characters

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was altered by the late Duke of Buckingham

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham