Event Comment: On this day and on Friday the 20th the
Duke's players gave
The Impertinents; or, The Sullen Lovers or
Sir Salomon.
Downes (
Roscius Anglicanus, p. 29) lists these as the two plays presented by the Duke's Company, but no contemporary statement indicates for certain which play was given on each day. The Journal of
Sir Richard Bulstrode: Yesterday [19] at five of ye clocke, the
Court were entertained with a comedy acted by the Duke's player (
The Bulstrode Papers, 1879, I, 139). Saturday 28 May 1670: The absence of the court which continues at
Dover till Wensday next makes us very barren of news. There is the greatest gallantry and mirth imaginable. The Dukes players have beene there all the time past came up yesterday and the
kings goe downe this day (
Aston Papers, Vol. XVI, Add. Mss. 36916, folio 182)