Event Comment: The 
Duke's Company.  This performance is on the 
L. C. list, 5@141, p. 81.  See also 
Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348.  There is no certainty as to whether this is the date of the first performance.  
Downes (
Roscius Anglicanus, p. 35): Then the 
Conquest of China by the Tartars, by 
Mr Settle; in this Play 
Mr Jevon Acting a 
Chinese Prince and Commander in it, and being in the 
Battle, Vanquisht by the Tartars; he was by his Part to fall upon the point of his Sword and Kill himself, rather than be a Prisoner by the Tartars: Mr Jevon instead of falling on the point of his Sword, laid it in the Scabbard at length upon the Ground and fell upon't, saying, now I am Dead; which put the Author into such a Fret, it made him speak Treble instead of Double Jevons answer was; did not you bid me fall upon my Sword
                   
                    
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                      Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of China By The Tartars