The dramatic works of John Crowne

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DRAMATISTS OF THE RESTORATION.

OROWNE. r.

Prologue To Horace, Spoken By The Duchess Of

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LANGBAINE, in his account of the English Dram atic Poets, Oxon. 1691, 12mo, although a contem porary, mentions Orowne as " a person, now living, who has attempted all sorts of Drarnatick poetry with different success. ... If I may be allowed to speak my sentiments/ he continues, "I think his genius seems fittest for Comedy, though possibly his Tragedies are no ways con temptible, of all which, in my weak judgment, his Destruction of Jerusalem seems the best." Then follows a list of his plays to the above date, with some notes as to the sources whence their plots have been derived.

Subsequent biographers have for the most part derived what little information they are pleased to offer from the account of this poet given by John Dennis in his Letters.* Following in the wake of one another they simply indorse without enquiry, as seems usual with book-makers, the statements made by the original writer, copying even his very words. In this way, they unite in saying, as Dennis himself has it, that "John Crowne was the son of an independent minister in that part of America which is called Nova Scotia. The vivacity of his genius made him soon grow

x Letters, vol. i.. p. IS.

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impatient of that sullen and gloomy education, and soon oblig d him to get loose from it, and seek his fortune in England; but it was his fate at his first arrival here, to happen on an employ ment more formal, if possible, than his American education." Olclys has these notes in MS. on his annotated copy of Langbaine, in the British Museum : " John Crowne was the son of William Crown e, gent., who travelled under the Earl of Arundel to Vienna, and published a relation of the remarkable places and passages in the said Earl s said Embassy to the Emperor Ferdinand II., 1G37, but full of imperfections and errors. This William, afterwards succeeded H. Lilly as Eouge Dragon in the Herald s office, and was continued in 1600; but, selling to Mr Sanclford,* went over with his family to one of the plantations and there died." " There is some order or paper of instructions I once saw in the Harleian Library, from Charles II., as I remember, either to the Lord Baltimore or some other possessors, or Governors in one of the American settlements, to enquire into, recover, or restore for or on behalf of Mr John Crowne or his father."

On Crowne s arrival in England, his urgent

* The following notice of Mr Sanclford is from a MS. of Dr Farmer s : " Francis Sandford, a younger brother of the Wandfordsof Sandford, in (Shropshire, a gentleman of good education, and a lover of antiquities and mathematics. Ho was lirsb iwulo Kougo Dragon, drat 1(562, on the death [?] of Mr Crown, and second, 1675, on the death of Mr Chaloner, waw made Lancaster Herald. He published many treatises in the way of Heraldry of his own translation and composition, the principal wlioroof was, his Genealogical History of the Kings of Juglaucl, and the History of the Coronation of King James II. ; in which hist ho was jointly assisted by Mr King, Itougo Dragon. JIo remaned his place of Lancaster in the beginning of William find Mary to King William aforesaid, and died in low circumstances, a prisoner to the Fleet, Ifjth Jan. 1603." ft jwllns itt ( Vw/iVw *S*. /frvV/ftfd 1 , Flwt fifwrt, London.

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necessities obliged him to become gentleman-usher to an old Independent lady of quaSty, but, so soon as he was able to exist otherwise, he quitted this most uncongenial employment, and launched into the world of letters, for which he had evinced an aptitude. His taste lay in favour of dramatic literature, which was the readier path to favour and distinction, though not to power or fortune. His writings ere long made him known to the Court and the town, and the Earl of Eochester, in order, as it is said, to mortify Dryden, at whom he had taken umbrage, prevailed on the king or his brother to lay commands on Crowne, in preference to the Poet-Laureate, to write a masque for performance at Court, which he duly executed under the title of Calisto. The circumstance of Crowne being set up in opposition to Dryden is noticed by St. Evremond in a letter to the Duchess of Mazarine.

That the favour extended to our poet by Lord Eochester was not owing, it has been asserted, to any peculiar personal regard, for, in the short space of two years, he incurred the envy and subsequent enmity of that nobleman, in consequence of the great success of his two-part tragedy the Destruc tion of Jerusalem and the Earl went so far as to endeavour to injure him at Court \ but in this he was unsuccessful, Crowne standing high in the favour of the King, as all those usually did who contributed to his amusement. However this may be, Crowne dedicated his tragedy of Charles VIII. of France (1680) to Eochester, who in return thus lampooned the author, in an imitation of Boileau s Third Satire, which will be found in the collected edition of his remains :

" Kickiun for Crown declared ; said, in Romance, He had out-done the very wits of France.

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WitncHH Pandion find his Charles the Eight ; Where a young; monarch., careless of his fate, Tlio foreign troops and rebels shock his state, Complains another sight afflicts him more. (Viz.) *Tho Queen s galleys rowing from the shore, Fitting their oars and tackling 1 to be gone, Whilst sportive waves smil d on the rising sun. Waves smiling on the sun ! I m sure that s new, And twas well thought on, give the devil his due."

Eo Chester wrote some other verses upon Crowne. in which he characterized him as "Starch Johnny Crowne." " Many a cup of metheglin have I drank with little starch Johnny Crowne," says the author of a letter on the celebrated poets and actors in King Charles II. 7 s time, in the " Gentle man s Magazine," vol. xv., 1745. "We called him so from the stiff unalterable primness of his long cravat."

After the discovery of what was called the Popish plot, and the consequent antagonism of the two parties, Crowne, from the favour he was held in by the King, and the natural gaiety of his temper, sided with the Tory party, and wrote a comedy called the City Politiques, in ridicule of the Whigs, the wit and merit of which even many of his opponents acknowledged. When written, he found much difficulty in getting it performed. Bennet, Lord Arlington, the then Lord Cham berlain, exerted all his authority to suppress it. It would seem that Lord Arlington, in order to support himself against the power of tlio Earl of Danby, the Lord Treasurer, his declared enemy, was secretly a supporter of the Whigs, who were at that time potent in Parliament. The reasons for prohibiting the performance of the play wero various; at one time it was dangerous, at another it was flat and insipid, and exception would have been taken to it at every turn, had not Crowne

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exerted his influence \vitli the King to cause the Lord Chamberlain not to delay it longer. This command the King was pleased to impose in person.

Crowne, though attached to his Majesty, disliked the insincerity of the Court, and seldom made his appearance there excepting when he went to receive such sums of money as were from time to time accorded him.

Towards the end of King Charles reign, Crowne, desirous to escape from the tedium of writing combined with the uncertainty of theatrical suc cess, and at the same time to shelter himself from the resentment of numerous enemies he had made by the production of his City Politiques, applied to his Majesty for an appointment to some per manent office. The Khig assured him he should be provided for, but he must first produce another comedy. Crowne begged to be excused in this, stating that he was slow and awkward in devising a plot. His objections were overruled by his Majesty saying he would help him to a plot, and immediately placed in his hands a Spanish comedy called " No puede ser." He set at once to work upon this, and was far advanced in his adap tation, when he discovered that the piece had been previously translated by Thomas St Serfe, a Scotchman,* under the title of "Tarugo s Wiles, or, the Coffee House," and acted at the Duke s Theatre without success.

Pepys has the following entry in his diary,

* Ho was son of the Bishop of Galloway, the only surviving prolate, at the Restoration, of those removed at the famous, or rather infamous, Assembly of 1638. See, A. Book of Scotish Pas<iuils, 1568-1715, Edin. 1868, p. 25, owrw 8w. The Bishop, though a very old man upon tho restoration of Episcopacy, was translated to the richer benefice of Orkney, which he held until his death in 1063.

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from which it is evident that, before recom mending the play to Crowne, the King had previously seen the performance of the adapta tion by Sidserff or St Serfe, as his name was spelt and had not been satisfied with it : 15/A October 1667. "My wife and I, and Willet to the Duke of York s house, where, after long stay, the King and Duke of York came, and there saw the Coffee House, the most ridiculous, insipid play that ever I saw in my life, and glad we were that Betterton had no part in it." It appears that Mrs Pepys suspected her husband of paying too much attention to Willet, and began to knag about it, a circumstance which would not tend to put the worthy Secretary in a proper humour for considering a performance, which was specially recommended by so competent a judge as the Earl of Dorset, in verses addressed to the author on its publication, in which he is styled Sir Thomas St Serfe, " whence we may gather that he had been honoured with a Knight Hood, though in the title page of his play he is called Thomas St Serfe, Gent/ *

Encouraged by the King, to whom he had read his piece scene by scene, in so far as it had gone, he completed it, taking for its title " Sir Courtly Nice ; or, It cannot be," but, alas ! for his hopes of gratifying the King, and obtaining the provision for life which had been promised him. The very morning of the last rehearsal of the play, his Majesty was seized with a fit, caused, as has beou

* Jones Biographia Dramatica, vol. ii., p, f>24. Tlio followingis a correct copy of the title pa^o: Tam^o s Wilon, or Uio Coffee House. A Comedy as it was acted at his Llitflinoss s the Duke of York s Theater. Written by Tims. Hfc. SeriFo, Gout. London. Printed for Henry Herringman, at the Si#n of 1,Iu> Anchor, on the lower-walk of the New-Exchange. 1008. 4l,o

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hinted, by some mysterious agency, which event uated in his death in three days thereafter.

The comedy of " Sir Courtly Nice " was, how ever, produced some short time after the King s death, and was well received. It continued to be a stock piece at many theatres for upwards of a century.

Dennis, although he promises in his letter to give further particulars of Crowne on another occasion, does not appear to have done so. His subsequent career is therefore uncertain, as well as the period of his decease. It has been conjectured that his writings were his only means of support, for, after Sir Courtly Nice, he wrote other six plays, which were pretty generally successful. From Mr Coxeter s notes we learn that Crowne was alive in 1703, and, being then advanced in years, it is probable he did not thereafter long survive. Jacob tells us that he was buried in St Griles s-in-the-Fields .

The following are his Dramatic works :

1. Juliana. A Tragi-Qomedy . 1671

2. Charles YIII. of France . . 1672

3. The Country Wit. Comedy . 1675

4. Andromache. Tragedy . . 1675 This was merely a translation from Eacine,

which he edited for a friend.

5. Calisto. A Masque . . . 1675

6. City Politicoes. Comedy . 1675

7. The Destruction of Jerusalem.

Tragedy 2 parts . . , 1677

8. The Ambitious Statesman. Tragedy 1679

9. Henry the Sixth. Tragedy 2 parts 1681

The first part is called Henry the Sixth ; or, the Misery of Civil War, under which latter title it was acted and printed in 1680.

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10. Thyestes. Tragedy . . 1681

11. Sir Courtly Nice. Comedy . 1685

12. Darius. Tragedy . . . 1688

13. The English Friar. Comedy . 1090

14. Eegulus. Tragedy . . . 1G94-

15. The Honied Beau. Comedy . 160-1-

16. Caligula. Tragedy , . 1698

17. Justice Busy. A Comedy (not printed).

In addition to these dramatic pieces, Crowno wrote :

Pandion and Amphigenia ; or, the History of the Coy Lady of Thessalia. Adorned with Sculpture. London 1665, Svo.

Dceneids ; or, the Noble Labours of the great Dean of Notre Dame in Paris, for erecting in his quire a throne for his glory, and the eclipsing the pride of an imperious usurping chanter. An heroic poem in four cantos, containing a true history, and shews the folly, foppery, luxury, laziness, pride, ambi tion, and contention of the liomisli clergy, 1692, 4to. This is a burlesque poem partly translated from the Lutrin of N. Boileau Despr^aux. It was subsequently reprinted by Dryden under the title of " The Church Scuffle," in the third part of Miscellany Poems, p. 352, 1716, 12mo.

A Poem on the lamented death of our lalo gratious Sovereign, King Charles tho II., of ever Mossed memory. With a congratulation to the Happy succession of King James the II. London, printed for John Smith, bookseller in liussel Street, near Covent Garden, 1685, 4to.

In this "Poe.m" Charles is depicted, according to the adulation of the day, as powu SHing ovcry

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virtue under the sun, and as being greater than divinity itself.

Crowne also contributed a song or two, set to music by Henry Purcell, to the " Gentleman s Journal, or Monthly Miscellany," edited by Motteux, 1691-2.

Of Crowne and his merits as a dramatist, the " Biographia Dramatica " advances this opinion, of which our own is confirmatory : "As a man, he seems to have possessed many amiable and social virtues, mingled with great vivacity and easiness of disposition. As a writer, his numerous works bear sufficient testimony of his merit. His chief excellence lay in comedy, yet his tragedies are far from contemptible. His plots are for the most part his own invention; his characters are in general strongly coloured and highly finished ; and his dialogue lively and spirited, attentively diversi fied, and well adapted to the several speakers."

As a writer of Comedies, he is the superior of Dryden, who in no one instance has produced any thing to be compared to Sir Courtly Nice.

TVarton, in a note upon a passage in one of Pope s prologues to his Satires relative to the public starving Dryden when alive, and burying him munificently after his decease,* gives an account of the Laureate s emoluments, so far as Tonson was concerned, and instances the receipt upon the pub lication of his Eables of two hundred and sixtyeight pounds, " for ten thousand verses, and to complete the full number of lines stipulated for, he gave the bookseller the Epistle to his cousin and the celebrated Music Ode." It cannot be said that this was an overpayment. It leads to a somewhat interesting disclosure : " Old Jacob used to say,

* Bowles Pope, vol. iv., p. 47.

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that Dryden was a little jealous of rivals. He would compliment Crowne when a play of his failed, but was very cold to him if he met with success. He used to say that Crowne had some genius, but then he added always that his father and Crowne s mother were very well acquainted."

If this anecdote is true, which it probably is, the explanation is not difficult* Born a poet, and con scious of the dmnus afflatus, what pain Dryden must have endured at the indignity of having such a miser able poetaster as Elkanah Settle set up as a rival, and patronised by parties in power who preferred, or seemed to do so, such wretched tragedies as the Empress of Morocco, and the Illustrious Bassa to his All for Love and Don Sebastian, in both of which are passages worthy of the older dramatists. Nor could the insult in transferring Calisto to Crowne be pardoned. No doubt the latter, in his address to the reader, yields the palm to Drydou with a delicacy and propriety exceedingly to be commended, but still the insult by Eochestcr would not be forgotten, and when it is recollected that neither an ancient pedigree, a titled wife, nor noble relatives could supply the wants of a family or exclude the presence of poverty, we are surely entitled to overlook such ebullitions of temper as Old Jacob has been the means of preserving for the edification of posterity.

It has not been deemed essential to reprint Crowne s Dramatic pieces in the exact chronolo gical order in which they were first presented to the public, or to include such as cannot properly be described as his own composition*

JAMES MAIDMKNT.

W. H. LOGAN.

.) I LIANA.

.ITLIAXA, vr the Princess of Poland. A Tragi- Comedy, As ft acted at his Royal Highness the Duke of York s Then t re. Jhf J. Crtiwnn, Gent. Presto, e bene, di rado r/Y.sv- Jjene. Licenced Sept. 8, 1671. Hoger L } Estrange. Lnttjtw. printed for Will. Cademan, at the Pope* $ Head* in tin lawcr Walk in the New Exchange, and Will Birch, at t?tt Inirtr fd nf Chtftpside. 1671.

In his dedication to the Earl of Orrery the author laments that his ; * first-born had, in the absence of the Court, been left to the mercy of a common audience, " in which unguarded condition 1 it might well be expected to receive some wounds, and so it did though much fewer than b I expected, yet such as it deserved " : ad missions which shew that the drama had only been partially successful. It is not surprising that such had been its reception, for the plot is somewhat confused, and. without the explanations added to the names of the dramatis yersouse, not very intelligible to spectators.

Although the events are represented as occurring at Warsaw, before the meeting of the Diet for election of u King, they have no foundation in reality, there never having been a Princess called Juliana, and no Duke of Curland, or Courland, bearing the Christian name of Ladislaus, who was elected King of Poland upon his marriage with the Princess of that kingdom. At no period in the history either of that country or of the Duchy of Curlaud was there a King or Duke called Ladislaus. The list of Polish monarchs, and Dukes of Courland, given in 1690 by Dr Connor* in his inter esting letters from Poland, have been carefully gone over to discover if any information could be procured relative either to the parties or incidents in this Tragi comedy, but without success.

Why a Duke of Courland was selected as the hero may have arisen from the fact that, in the early part of the reign of Charles II., the ruler of that Duchy, a fief of

* " The History of Poland, in several Letters to Persons of Quality, giving an account of the ancient and present state of that Kingdom. London, 1696 , 2 vols. 8vo." Published by the care and assistance of Mr Savage.

This must have been the " J. Savage " vho is represented in the Biographia Dramatica as the " translator of Celesthia, 1 Fc. Svo, 1707.

Poland, b<r;ime known to the people of England from a contention hi relation to the occupancy by the Dutch of the Island of Tobago, which had been discovered by Jtitnes, the fourth Duke a godson of James I. of England and named after his Majesty. The Duke placed a colony there, and built a fort called James Fort.

For a series of years the colony prospered, so much so that it attracted the notice of a rich Dutchman of the name of Lambson, who, getting permission to settle on u corner of the Island upon condition of paying a ywirly tribute, took the opportunity of the imprison ment of the owner by the Swedes, to dispossess him of the Island, and refused, after his Highness had re covered his liberty, to restore it to him. After ineffec tually endeavouring to induce Lambson and the States of Holland to give back what had been so unfairly taken from him, the Duke applied to Charles II. for assistance, and offered to hold the Island off the Crown of England. Accordingly, an agreement, dated 17th of November 1664, was entered into between Charles and the Duke, by which the former gave and granted u to the said Duke of Curland, his heirs, and successors, all and every that Island called Tobago, to be held and en joyed under the Kings protection."

Their High Mightinesses the States of Holland were by no means pleased with the interference of Charles in endeavouring to procure restoration of a colony so un warrantably taken from the godson of his grandfather, and by various artifices contrived to hold possession, so that it was not until the year 1081, or about that time, that Duke James, by compulsion, got back his Island, which, during* the occupation of the Dutch, had been held by them as convenient for the ready pillaging of their neigh bours its remote position and its accessible harbours rendering it a suitable place for depositing the spoil which they had obtained either by their own acts or through the pirates whom they patronized. At this date, the Amboyna massacres had not been forgotten in England, and the Dutch wer,e still unpopular. Thus the name of this ill-used Prince would naturally find favour with the London citizens, and Crown e, alive to this impression, conferred the honours of Courland on the

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hero of his drama as a means of drawing atd-ut^a to it.

As a first production this drama is entitled to more credit than is accorded to it either in the Biographic Dramatica, or by Geneste in his history of the Engl.sh stage. The plot is apparently original, and not tak^n from any of the Italian novelists, upon whom our old dramatists were accustomed so frequently to draw. No doubt the story is somewhat perplexing, andtlie marriage in the dark of the supposed Ladislaus to the Muscovite Princess Paulina rather improbable, still, with judicious pruning and curtailment, Juliana might yet be converted into an attractive play infinitely superior to the great mass of modern sensational dramas of ephemeral existence which appear for a season or two and then vanish arid are seen no more.

The character of the landlord is admitted by Gene?te to be an amusing one. He must have contributed materially to such success as attended the original ivpresentation.

But Paulina in her male costume is infinitely inoiv calculated to please an audience than the Polish Princess. The interest of the piece rests with her rather than with Juliana ; and her wild goose chase after an imaginary husband is more interesting than the bold defiance of the Cardinal by Juliana, or her grief for the support infidelity of LaJislaus.

The piece was w r ell cast. Mrs Saunderson, better known subsequently as Mrs Betterton, a performer ot great merit, acted the Princess of Poland, and Mrs Long, esteemed "a fine actress," was the representative of Paulina.* She assumed the part of the Justice in Betterton s comedy of " The Woman made a Justice" a play so successful as to be acted fourteen days running. She afterwards appeared as Mrs Brittle m " the Amorous Widow or the Wanton Wife," a character in which she was succeeded by Mrs Bracegirdle. In Lord Orrery s Henry V., 1688, she took the character of the Queen of France. Geneste says the name of Mrs Long does not appear after 1673. Downes commends

* See History of the English Stage. London, Curl], 1741, Svo.

her greatly in Widow Rich, as well as in the characters above mentioned.

!Mrs Shad well is named as Cleora the Queen of Hun gary s woman in Lord Orrery s tragedy of Mustapha, KJG8. She must have been a vocalist, as, in her character of Joanna, the attendant of Paulina, she is discovered, upon the rising of the curtain, singing beside her mistress, who is sleeping under a tree.

Geneste says : u Mrs Shadwell s name does not occur after the union of the two companies in 1682. She was certainly the wife of [Thomas] Shadwell the poet, and perhaps Mrs Williams before her marriage. The name of Mrs Williams stands to the parts of Leandra in the Slighted Maid, and Pontia in the Stepmother in 16G3, after which we hear no more of her. Mrs ShadwelFs name first appears in 1604/ She survived her husband, who died suddenly in 1692 in the fifty-second year of his age at Chelsea, and was interred in the church there. In the Apotheosis of Milton, printed in the Gentleman s Magazine^ vol. 8, p. 235, a singular picture of Shadwell s personal appearance will be found, which may be presumed to be correct, as many persons then alive must have seen him often.* Mrs Shadwell was living in 1608, as she dedicated to Queen Mary her husband s post humous comedy of the Volunteers, or the Stock-jobbers. The late Sir Launcelot Shadwell, the vice -Chancellor, is understood to have been a descendant of the Dramatist.

Of the male performers, the important part of the Jesuitical Cardinal was assigned to Joseph Harris, origin ally a seal cutter, a calling he abandoned for the stage where he met with great success. Pepys was a great friend of his, and makes mention of his agree able society. His portrait was painted as Henry V. by Hales, and the Secretary of the Admiralty saw it in his studio but " did not think the picture near so good as any yet he has made for me." This was not Shakspeares Henry V., but a rhyming tragedy by the Earl of Orrery, first published by Herringham in folio at London 1668, with the tragedy of Mustapha by the same noble Earl, in which Harris is entered amongst the Dramatis

* See D Avenant s Dramatic Works, vol. i. p. liv. ? Prefatory . Edinburgh, Paterson, 187"^.

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Personse as Mustapha, the son of Solyman the magijii:- cent. He was so successful in the Cardinal TTolsey of Shakespeare that a mezzotint engraving was taken of him in the character now of extra-rarity but of which an impression is preserved in the Pepysian Library at Cambridge.

In 1793 a print of him was published, probably from the painting by Hales just mentioned, then in posses sion of Horace VTalpole at Strawberry Hill but whither it has gone since the dispersion of the treasures, oi;ct there preserved, has not been ascertained.

Of Betterton, the representative of Ladislaus, so much is known that, respecting his extraordinary talent> as a performer, it is unnecessary to say more than that he has never been excelled either as an actor uii the stage, or as a gentleman off it.*

"Among the many fine players of this age/* it i? remarked in *" Betterton s History of the English Stajre. * "Mr Sandford must be remembered, and sorry we are that we can obtain no other notices of him than what we iind among the Dramatis Personse prefixed to the plays in which he acted.* 7 Sandford excelled ** in such characters as Creon, Malignii, lago, and Machiavel. :; f Xece&sity more than choice forced him into this line of acting, hi? stature being low and his person crooked. Gibber"** had often lamented that Sandford s masterly performance was not rewarded with that applause which inferior actors met with, merely because they stood in more amiable characters." This gentleman s name appear* in the list of Dramatis Persons appended to the present play, set against two characters, " Count Palatines of the Cardinal s faction." "Which of the two he performed is not apparent, but, from the fact of both of them being on the stage at the same time, it is evident he did not " double " the parts, as one might be induced to think.

Young, the Demetrius of the piece, took the part of the Cardinal of Veradium in Lord Orrery s Mustapha, and the Dauphine in his Lordship s Henry Y. Of his history or his histrionic merits the writers on the stage have thrown no light.

* See D Avenant. Life, Iviii,, Ixvui.* et s^. t Geneste, vol. i p. 493.

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William Smith, who played the part of Sharnosky the friend of Ladislaus, was a barrister of Gray s Iim. After Sir William Davenaut s decease he became a partner in the Duke s Theatre, and, as such, appears as a party to a memorandum of agreement between I)r Charles Davenant, the eldest sou of Sir William, Thomas Betterton and himself, on the one part ; and Charles Hart and Edward Kynaston, players of eminence, on the other, dated Mth October 1(581. The document was reprinted from the life of Hetterton, by Genestc, in his useful and generally accurate " Account of the English Stage from the period of the Restoration in 1C60 to 183U. 11 Smith performed Danger in Mustapha, and the Duke of Burgundy, in Orrery s Henry V.