King Henry VI., designed for Mr. Wilks.
Edward, Prince of Wales Mrs. Allison.
Richard, Duke of York Miss Chock.
Richard, Duke of Gloucester Mr. Cibber.
Duke of Buckingham Mr. Powel.
Lord Stanley Mr. Mills.
Duke of Norfolk Mr. Simpson.
Ratcliff Mr. Kent.
Catesby Mr. Thomas.
Henry, Earl of Richmond Mr. Evans.
Oxford Mr. Fairbank.
Queen Elizabeth Mrs. Knight.
Lady Ann Mrs. Rogers.
Cicely Mrs. Powel.

[ [226] A beautiful Portfolio of Sketches of Mr. Daly's Company has been published, in which is a portrait of Miss Rehan as Hypolita, with a critical note by Mr. Brander Matthews.

[ [227] This is a specimen of that commonest of blunders, the confusing of the dates of the first month or two of the year. The edict was issued February, 1647-8, that is, 1648. What Bellchambers calls the "subsequent" October was therefore the preceding October. (L.)

[ [228] See "Historia Histrionica."

[ [229] Nell Gwyn made her first appearance not later than 1665. Pepys, on the 3rd of April, 1665, mentions "Pretty, witty Nell, at the King's House." (L.)

[ [230] Should be for the remainder of his life. (L.)

[ [231] Vide Davies's "Dramatic Miscellanies," vol. iii. p. 264.

Another anecdote of the same kind is found in a "Life of the late famous comedian, J. Haynes," 8vo. 1701, which, as it preserves a characteristic trait of this valuable actor, is worth repeating.

"About this time [1673] there happened a small pick between Mr. Hart and Jo, upon the account of his late negotiation in France,{A} and there spending so much money to so little purpose, or, as I may more properly say, to no purpose at all.

{A} Soon after the theatre in Drury-lane was burnt down, Jan. 1671-2, Haynes had been sent to Paris by Mr. Hart and Mr. Killegrew, to examine the machinery employed in the French Operas.—Malone.