Ει δε τι παραπται, η ουκ εκ ιβως ανειληπται, μηδεις ημας γράφετω μεμψεως,
εννοῶν ως πεπλανημένην ιστορίαν συνελεξαμεν..

-EVAGRIUS, p. 473.

IF ANY THING BE OVERLOOKED, OR NOT ACCURATELY INSERTED, LET'
NO ONE FIND FAULT, BUT TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THAT THIS
HISTORY IS COMPILED FROM ALL QUARTERS.

VOL I.

BATH:

PRINTED BY H, E. CARRINGTON.

SOLD BY THOMAS RODD, GREAT NEWPORT STREET, LONDON.

CONTENTS.

Short Account previously to 1660.

Some Account from 1660 to 1663.

Theatre Royal & Lincoln's Inn Fields-from 1663 to 1668.

Sir William Davenant.

Duchess of Newcastle.

Dryden's Essay of Dramatick Poesie.

T. R. and L. I. F. 1669.

Sir John Coventry and Charles 2d.

T. R. and L. I. F. to 1671.

Dorset Garden 1671

T. R. and D. G. to 1675.

Dryden and Crowne.

T. R. and D. G. to 1677.

Rymer.

T. R. and D. G. to 1682.

Union of the two Companies in 1682.

T. R. to 1684.

Charles the 2d.

T. R. 1685 to 1688.

James the 2d.

T. R. to 1690.

N. B. For Corrections and Additions see vol. 10 p. 246.