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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO THE READER THE Editor of the enfuing Relation, being long Converjant with the Plays and AEtors of the Original Company, under the Patent of Sir William Davenant, at his Theatre in Lincolns.Inn Fields, Operid there 1662. And as Book keeper and Prompter, continud fo, till Oftober 1706. He Writing out all the Parts in each Play; and Attending every Morning the AEtors Rehearfals, and their Performances in After noons; Emboldens him to affirm, he is not very Erronious in his Relation. But as to the AElors of Drury Lane Company, A 2 underunder Mr. Thomas Killigrew, he having the AccountfromMr. Charles Booth fometimes Book keeper there ; If he a little Deviates, as to the Sue cejffive Order, and exaEl time of their Plays Performances, He begs Pardon of the Reader, and Subfcribes himfelf, His very Humble Servant, n Downes. Ro/ctus Rofcius Anglicanus, O R A N HISTORICAL REVIEW O F T H E STAGE IN the Reign of King Charles the Firft, there were Six Play Houfes allow'd in Town : The Black Fryars Company, His Majefty's Servants ; The Bull in St. John's ftreet; another in Salisbury Court; another call'd the Fortune; another at the Globe; and the Sixth at the Cock Pit in Drury Lane; all which con tinu'd Acting till the beginning of the faid Civil Wars. The fcattered Remnant of feveral of thefe Houfes, upon King Charles's Reftoration, Fram'd a Company who Acted again at the Bull, and Built them a New Houfe in Gibbon's Tennis Court in Clare Market; in which Two Places they continu'd Acting all 1660, 1661, 1662 and part of 1663. In this time they Built them a New Theatre in Drury Lane: Mr. Thomas Killigrew gaining a Patent from the King in B orderorder to Create them the King's Servants ; and from that time, they call'd themfelves his Ma jefty's Company of Com...
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