Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of Honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of Honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: The Queene at Othelo. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: The Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of Honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance, which is out of the chronological order, is on L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68; the list does not indicate which Part of this play was given. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350, and page 380, for an order (L. C. 5@147, p. 1) for rehabilitation of the seats in the theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350

Event Comment: The United Company. This Performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. When this play was revived at Lincoln's Inn Fields on 14 Aug. 1705, the bill bore the heading: Not Acted these Twenty Years

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 69: ye Moore of Venice at Whitehall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. See also an L. C. notice, 5@147, p. 24 (in Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, p. 85) concerning Preparations for plays to be acted at court every week

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance ison the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: Sr Phoplyn. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. The Earl of Middleton to Sir George Etherege, 7 Dec. 1685: Every week there are plays at court. The last time Sir Fopling appeared with the usual applause, and the King was pleased to tell me that he expected you should put on your socks (Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Rosenfeld, p. 345)

Event Comment: The United Company. An order (L. C. 5@147, p. 52, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 356), dated 19 Dec. 1685, calls for a payment of #20 for the King and Queen at Alexander, but the order does not indicate whether the performance occurred on this date

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. Peregrine Bertie to the Countess of Rutland, 31 Dec. 1685: Yesterday was acted The Committee. The King and Queen were there and all the whole Court went to see it, but coming a little after it was begun [I] could not get any roome (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Rutland MSS., Part V, Vol. II, p. 100). Bridget Noel to the Countess of Rutland, ca. 6 Jan. 1685@6: [Last Wednesday] my Lady Exeter engaged us to goe to a play with her...which was a Commity. The King and Queen was at it, and the house as full as ever I saw it (ibid.)

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. Peregrine Bertie to the Countess of Rutland, 28 Jan. 1685@6: Last night was acted, the Chances at Whitehall, and to-night should have been a musicke meeting at Yorke Buildings, which I am jest now told is to bee put of till next weeke. The French Opera will begin the weeke after the next (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Rutland MSS., Part V, Vol. II, p. 102)

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. On this date the Stationers' Register has a reference to a play called Love's Martyr; or, Witt Above Crownes, apparently by Mrs Anne Wharton, forbidding anyone from entering this play in the Stationers' Register

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. A reprint of this play in 1687 has the cast of the 1674 edition

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of this Performance is stated as 16 Feb. (L. C. records) or 17 Feb. (Peregrine Bertie), but as Lent began on Wednesday 17 Feb., the performance probably occurred on Shrove Tuesday. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, P. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. Peregrine Bertie to the Countess of Rutland, 17 Feb. 1685@6: To night will be the last play at court, they tell mee 'tis the Mocke Astrologer (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Rutland MSS., Part V, p. 105). John Povey to Sir Robert Southwell, 18 Feb. 1685@6: Sir, the enclosed had been sent last post, had it not been detained late by a play at Court which ended our Carnival. The night before the King and Queen were entertained by the Lord President at a ball or masque in Lady Portsmouth's lodgings. The Masquers were twelve couples whose habits were of several nations' and prescribed by a picture sent to each of them from the Queen, and the least habit cost !bove a hundred Pounds, and some above three hundred pounds, besides jewels of which Mrs Fox and some others had above thirty thousand pounds value each (Savile-Finch Correspondence, Add. Mss. 28,569; I owe this quotation to Professor John Harold Wilson)

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. General Patrick Gordon, 6 May 1686: I saw the Scots Batallion exercized in the Hide Park before the King and Queen, and saw the comedy, Rehearsal, acted (Passages from the Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auckleuchbies [Aberdeen, 1859], p. 133)

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125: The K: & Q: & a Box for ye Maydes of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 127-28, thinks that acting resumed on 27 Sept. 1686 and continued to 25 June 1687, with 30 Performances from 25 June to 12 Oct

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: The King & Queene & a box for ye Maydes of Honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351