Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. My oath &
Mrs Simson's appear'd in ye G: Advertiser, &
Mr Fitzpatrick now swore (in ye
Inspector) to what before he had given his Honour to--when
Woodward appear'd in ye Pant: great Noise, he said gentlemen, if you think
the two affidavids to-day not sufficient I will corroberate 'em on Monday with six or Seven more. quiet on Sunday Mr Fitz: waited on
Lord Chamberlain, to complain of Woodward's Insolence, my
Lord sent for
Garrick who told ye whole Story; & upon Mr Fitz owing he threw an apple at him, my
Lord said, that act put upon a Footing with ye lowest, & judg'd him
the Agressor,--upon wch Fitz; desir'd all affidavids &c shoul'd cease & he wou'd drop his resentment. which was done (
Cross). Receipts: #100 (Cross). [In
the General Advertiser appeared (1)
Letter to the Public from Woodward disclaiming any note of insolence, and accusing Fitzpatrick of having a bad memory; (2) an Affidavit from Cross that he was present and heard Woodward say distincly "Sir I thank you," without any air of menace. He heard this from his prompter's seat "next adjoining
the Stage box call'd
the Prince of Wale's box"; (3) an Affidavit from
Mrs Elizabeth Simson, who was standing in
the "First entrance next
the stage door, on
the Prompter's side," that she heard what Cross Heard and no more, and understood no air of Menace to be present. In
the General Advertiser also appeared a letter from one
T. C. explaining
the approach of
Birnam Wood to
Dunsinane in
Macbeth on
the basis of a story told him by a Scots Laird of a nearby castle, to
the effect that
the Clans used to distinguish
themselves in battle by sprays from different trees attached to
their bonnets. From this T. C. developed a
theory that Macbeth's experience was one of historical face ra
ther tahn a figment of
Shakespeare's imagination.