ii. 141;

his favour for Mills, ii. 223; his connection with Steele during the dispute about Steele's Patent, ii. 193, _note_ 1; his love of acting, ii. 225; a genuine admirer of Cibber, ii. 226, _note_ 1; attacked by Dennis, ii. 226, _note_ 2; his excellence as Macduff, ii. 228; gives the part to Williams, ii. 229; but withdraws it, ii. 230; complains of acting so much, ii. 232; a scene between him and his partners, ii. 234-237; benefits arising from his enthusiasm for acting, ii. 237; and Booth, their opinion of each other, ii. 240; formed his style on Mountfort's, ii. 241; Cibber's comparison of Booth and Wilks, ii. 239-245; his Othello, ii. 244; death of, ii. 254; memoir of, ii. 254, _note_ 4; Patent granted to him, Cibber, and Booth, after Steele's death, ii. 257.

Wilks, Mrs., inherits Wilks's share in the Patent, ii. 258; delegates her authority to John Ellys, ii. 258; her share sold to Fleetwood, ii. 261.

Willard, E. S., mentioned, i. 135, _note_ 1.

William of Orange, Cibber a supporter of, at the Revolution, i. 60; made king, i. 70; gives a Licence to Betterton, i. 192, _note_ 1.

Williams, Charles, Wilks gives him the part of Macduff, ii. 229; but withdraws it, ii. 230; hissed in mistake for Cibber, i. 179, _note_ 1.

---- Joseph, mentioned, i. 157, i. 200; Bellchambers's memoir of, ii. 356.

Wiltshire (actor), leaves the stage for the army, i. 84; killed in Flanders, i. 85.

Winchester College, Cibber stands for election to, and is unsuccessful, i. 56; his brother, Lewis Cibber, is afterwards successful, i. 56; his father presents a statue to, i. 56; communication from the Head Master of, i. 56, _note_ 2.

Wintershal (actor), belonged to the Salisbury Court Theatre, i. xxiv.

Woffington, Margaret, her artistic feeling, i. 166, _note_ 1; an anecdote wrongly connected with her, ii. 266.

"Woman's Wit," cast of, i. 264, _note_ 1.

Women, their first introduction on the stage, i. xxxii., i. 89, _note_ 1, i. 90.

Wren, Sir Christopher, the designer of Drury Lane Theatre, ii. 82.

Wright, James, his "History of Rutlandshire," i. 8; quoted, i. 9, _note_ 1; his "Historia Histrionica," i. xix.

Wykeham, William of, Cibber connected with by descent, i. 56.

"Ximena," cast of, ii. 163, _note_ 1.

York, Duke of (James II.), at Whitehall, i. 30.

Young, Dr. Edward, his "Epistle to Mr. Pope" quoted, i. 54, _note_ 1.

Young actors, dearth of, ii. 221.

END OF VOL. I.

FOOTNOTES

[Footnote 1: Colley Cibber's "brazen brainless brothers." According to Horace Walpole, "one of the Statues was the portrait of Oliver Cromwell's porter, then in Bedlam."]

[Footnote 2: Till the 25 Year of Queen _Elizabeth_, the Queen had not any Players; but in that Year 12 of the best of all those who belonged to several Lords, were chosen & sworn her Servants, as Grooms of the Chamber. Stow's _Annals_, p. 698.]

[Footnote 3: The Right Honourable Henry Pelham. Davies ("Life of Garrick," ii. 377) says that the "Apology" was dedicated to "that wise and honest minister," Pelham. John Taylor ("Records of my Life," i. 263) writes: "The name of the person to whom the Dedication to the 'Apology' was addressed is not mentioned, but the late Mr. John Kemble assured me that he had authority for saying it was Mr. Pelham, brother to the Duke of Newcastle." From the internal evidence it seems quite clear that this is so. In the Verses to Cibber quoted in "The Egotist," p. 69, the authoress writes:--

"_Some praise a Patron and reveal him: You paint so true, you can't conceal him._ Their _gaudy Praise undue but shames him, While_ your's _by Likeness only names him."_]

[Footnote 4: Cibber, in Chapter ix., mentions that he is writing his Apology at Bath, and Fielding, in the mock trial of "_Col._ Apol." given in "The Champion" of 17th May, 1740, indicts the Prisoner "for that you, not having the Fear of Grammar before your Eyes, on the ---- of ---- at a certain Place, called the _Bath_, in the County of _Somerset_, in _Knights-Bridge_, in the County of _Middlesex_, in and upon the _English_ Language an Assault did make, and then and there, with a certain Weapon called a Goose-quill, value one Farthing, which you in your left Hand then held, several very broad Wounds but of no Depth at all, on the said _English_ Language did make, and so you the said Col. _Apol._ the said _English_ Language did murder."]

[Footnote 5: This seems to be a favourite argument of Cibber. In his "Letter" to Pope, 1742, he answers Pope's line, "And has not Colley still his Lord and Whore?" at great length, one of his arguments being that the latter accusation, "without some particular Circumstances to aggravate the Vice, is the flattest Piece of Satyr that ever fell from the formidable Pen of Mr. _Pope_: because (_defendit numerus_) take the first ten thousand Men you meet, and I believe, you would be no Loser, if you betted ten to one that every single Sinner of them, one with another, had been guilty of the same Frailty."--p. 46.]

[Footnote 6: Cibber's "Apology" must have been a very profitable book. It was published in one volume quarto in 1740, and in the same year the second edition, one volume octavo, was issued. A third edition appeared in 1750, also in one volume octavo. Davies ("Dramatic Miscellanies,"