ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA.

Vol. I.

Prefatory Memoir, page v., line 16.-For 1744 read 1780.

Page lvii.-Upon the commotions which preceded the Restoration, and particularly upon Sir George Booth's insurrection, Sir William Davenant fell into fresh troubles, and underwent another imprisonment, from which, however, he was speedily released.- Whitelocke's Mem., p. 682. He complimented General Monk upon his good designs, and his great capacity, in a short poem, and his Majesty, King Charles the Second, upon his return, in a very long one.

Davenant, the

Page 84.-Charles Davenant.-Charles eldest son of Sir William, was born, it has been conjectured, some time in 1656. He was sent to the Grammar School of Cheame, in the county of Surrey. It is said he was scarcely twelve when his father died. He became a Fellow Commoner of Baliol College in Midsummer Term 1671, but left the university without taking a degree. His play of Circe, written when he was about nineteen, was well received, 1675, and frequently acted afterwards with just applause. He had a considerable share in this theatre in right of his father, but he turned his attention to other pursuits. He applied himself to the study of Civil Law, in which he had the degree of Dr conferred upon him by the University of Cambridge. He was elected with James St Amand, Esq., to represent the burgh of St Ives in Cornwall, in the first Parliament of King James II., summoned to meet 19 May 1685; and about the same time was jointly empowered, with the Master of the Revels, to inspect all plays, to preserve the stage from immorality. He had also been appointed a Commissioner of the Excise, and so continued from 1683 to 1689. thorough acquaintance with the laws and constitution of the kingdom, joined to his great skill in figures, and his happiness in applying that skill according to the principles advanced by

"His

Sir William Petty, for the perfecting Political Arithmetic enabled him to enter deeply into the management of affairs, and procured him great success as a political writer."-Oldmixon's History of the Stuarts, vol. ii. p. 217. His merit as a political writer has been always acknowledged. He died 6th Nov. 1714.-Help to History, vol. iii., p. 296.

Among the legacies left by the Duchess of Shrewsbury who died in July 1720, there is :

"To Mrs Davenant, Daughter of the late Duke, £100."

Her Grace was Adelhida, daughter of the Marquis of Paliotti, in Italy, descended by her mother from Sir Robert Dudley, the celebrated son of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and created Duke of Northumberland abroad. By her, his only wife, the Duke of Shrewsbury had no issue, and, dying on the 1st of February 1717-18, his Marquisate and Dukedom became extinct. The Earldom of Shrewsbury, however, devolved upon the next heir male, aud is at present the premier Earldom in this country.

Mrs Davenant is presumed to have been a natural daughter of the Duke and the wife of Dr Davenant.

It may be well to note that the Duchess' brother, Ferdinando, Marquis de Paleotti, was executed at Tyburn, 17th March 1718, for the murder of his footman.

We hear, that upon the Dutchess of Richmond's presenting an humble petition to her Majesty, setting forth the most deplorable circumstances of six daughters of the late Dr Davenant (who were left quite destitute of all manner of subsistence, by their brother's leaving the kingdom), her Majesty, with great goodness, recommended their miserable condition to the King; and his Majesty, out of his Royal Bounty, was graciously pleased to order each of them a pension of £50 a-year.' -[20 May 1732.]—Newspaper.

Fletcher's Comedy of the Woman Hater was revived by Sir William Davenant, who wrote a new Prologue in Verse, which is printed in the folio edition of his works, p. 249.

12 Sept. 1667.-To the Duke's house, where 'Tu quoque' was the first time acted, with some alterations of Sir W. Davenant's; but the play is very silly, methinks; for I, and others that sat by me, Mr Povey and Mr Progers, were weary of it; but it will please the citizens."-Pepys.

This play was written by John Cooke, and first printed in 1614, having been published by the Dramatist, Thomas Heywood. It was called "Greene's Tu quoque," on account of the celebrity of the actor, Thomas Greene, in the part of Bubble. It was afterwards known as the City Gallant, the second title being made the first. It is reprinted in Dodsley's Old Plays.

Vol. II. page 9, Poppaa (Platonic Lovers).

Poppaa, the wife of Nero, is said to have invented the mask to guard her complexion from the sun.

Ib., p. 57. The Tub. See Mayne's City Match, A. 5, S. 3. Also note to Timon of Athens in Stevens' edition of Shakespeare, 1778, vol. 8.

Vol. II. p. 121, Brasil Pole (The Wits).

"Your sticks ought to be heavy, made of Brasile, Lignum Vitæ, or some other weighty wood, which at the broad end must be tipt with ivory.' "Of Billiards," in Compleat Gamester, 1710.

"Drake resolved to build his pinnaces in this convenient Port, which they finished in seven days, by the help of some large trees growing there near forty yards about, being white, and as heavy as brasil-wood."-Life of Sir Francis Drake.

Vol. III. p. 15, The Unfortunate Lovers.

"11 Sep. 1667.-To the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw part of The Ungratefull Lovers,' and sat by Beck Marshall, whose hand is very handsome."-Pepys. There is no such play as the Ungrateful Lovers-evidently a mistake for "The Unfortunate Lovers."

"8 April 1668.-With Lord Brouncker to the Duke of York's playhouse, where we saw The Unfortunate Lovers,' no extraordinary play, methinks."—Ib.

"3 Dec. 1668.-So to the office, where we sat all the morning; and at noon home to dinner, and then abroad again, with my wife, to the Duke of York's Playhouse, and saw The Unfortunate Lovers'-a mean play, I think, but some parts very good, and excellently acted."-1b.

Vol. III. p. 196, Captain Cooke. Entertainment at Rutland House.

12 Aug. 1660.-Pepys.-"After sermon, a brave anthem of Captain Cooke's, which he himself sung, and the King was well pleased with it."

"13 Feb. 1666-7.-To Dr Clerke's, by invitation. Here was his wife painted, and her sister Worshipp, a widow now, and mighty pretty, in her mourning. Here was also Mr Pierce and Mr Floyd, Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of Prizes, and Captain Cooke to dinner, an ill and little mean one, with foul cloth and dishes, and everything poor. Discoursed most about plays and the opera, where, among other vanities, Captain Cooke had the arrogance to say that he was fain to direct Sir W. Davenant in the breaking of his verses into such and such lengths, according as would be fit for musick, and how he used to swear at Davenant, and command him that way, when W. Davenant would be angry, and find fault with this or that note-a vain coxcomb he is, though he sings and composes so well. Dr Clerke did say that Sir W. Davenant is no good judge of a dramatick poem, finding fault

with his choice of Henry the 5th, and others, for the stage, when I do think, and he confesses, The Siege of Rhodes' as good as ever was writ. Cooke gone, Dr Clerke fell to reading a new play, newly writ, of a friend's of his; but, by his discourse and confession afterwards, it was his own.”—Pepys.

Volume V. page 3, The Man's the Master.

"26 March 1668.-To the Duke of York's house, to see the new play, called "The Man is the Master,' where the house was, it being not one o'clock, very full. But my wife and Deb. being there before, with Mrs Pierce and Corbet and Betty Turner, whom my wife carried with her, they made room; and there I sat, it costing me 8s. upon them in oranges, at 6d. a-piece. By and by the King came; and we sat just under him, so that I durst not turn my back all the play. This play is a translation out of French, and the plot Spanish, but not anything extraordinary at all in it, though translated by Sir W. Davenant, and so I found the King and his company did think meanly of it, though there was here and there something pretty but the most of the mirth was sorry, poor stuffe, of eating of sack posset and slabbering themselves, and mirth fit for clownes; the prologue but poor, and the epilogue little in it but the extraordinariness of it, it being sung by Harris and another in the form of a ballad." --Pepys.

From this opinion, however, he was subsequently induced to depart.

7 May 1668.-To the Duke of York's house, and there saw The Man's the Master,' which proves, upon my seeing it again, a very good play."

Volume V. p. 396, Tempest.

The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island. A Comedy. As it is now acted at his Highness the Duke of York's Theatre. London: Printed by T. N. for Henry Herringham, at the Blew Anchor, in the Lower Walk of the New-Exchange. 1674.

P. 402, Beard. There is a mezzotint engraving of a scene from the English opera, "Love in a Village," by Finlayson, after Zoffany, 1 March 1768, in which Beard appears as Squire Hawthorn in the act of singing "Let gay ones and great," the others being Sam Foote in the character of Justice Woodcock, and Dunstall in that of Hoop.

One of the "London sights" alluded to by Trincalo were the two Indians brought away from Virginia by Captains Amidas and Barlow, of Raleigh's first expedition (27 April 1584), who discovered Virginia.

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