*p1668 01 13 atcourt The Indian Emperour. Persons of the Court.*c1668 01 13 atcourt <i>The Journal of Sir Richard Bulstrode</i> (p. 19): This evening is repeated in the great Hall by foure persons of quality the Indian Emper, but the Company is made very private, soe as few attempt to gett in. $Jean Chappuzeau=, <i>Le Theatre Francois</i> (<i>Paris</i>, 1675), p. 55, states that in 1668 he saw a revival of <i>The Indian Emperor</i> in <i>London</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: 14 Jan.: They fell to discourse of last night's work <i>at court</i>, where the ladies and $Duke of Monmouth= and others acted The IndianEmperour; wherein they told me these things most remarkable: that not any woman but the $Duchesse of Monmouth= and $Mrs Cornwallis= did any thing but like fools and stocks, but that these two did do most extraordinary well: that not any man did any thing well but $Captain O'Bryan=, who spoke and did well, but, above all things, did dance most incomparably. That she did sit near the players of the <i>Duke's house</i>; among the rest, $Mis Davis=, who is the most impertinent slut, she says, in the world; and the more, now the King do show her countenance; and is reckoned his mistress, even to the scorne of the whole world; the King gazing on her, and my $Lady Castlemayne= being melancholy and out of humour, all the play, not smiling once. $The King=, it seems, hath given her a ring of #700, which she shews to every body, and owns that the King did give it her; and he hath furnished a house for her in <i>Suffolke Street</i> most richly, which is a most infinite shame. It seems she is bastard of $Colonell Howard, my Lord Berkshire=, and that he do pimp to her for the King, and hath got her for him; but $Pierce= says that she is a most homely jade as ever she saw, though she dances beyond any thing in the world.