One of them is
erroneously stated, in the notes to the Memoires de Grammont, and
Davies' Dramatic Miscellanies, to have become Lord Oxford's
mistress; for Mr. Pepys uniformly calls the Marshalls by their
proper name, and only speaks of the other lady as "the first or
old Roxalana, who had quitted the stage."--VIDE Feb. 18, 1661-2,
and Dec. 27, in the same year.] did do her part most excellently
well as I ever heard woman in my life; but her voice is not so
sweet as Ianthe's: [Malone says, in his HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH
STAGE, that Mrs. Mary Saunderson performed Ianthe in Davenant's
play of the Siege of Rhodes, at the first opening of his theatre,
April 1662. She married Betterton the following year, and lived
till 1712, having filled almost all the female characters in
Shakespeare with great success. It is probable, therefore, that
she was the person alluded to here, and frequently mentioned
afterwards, without any more particular designation.] but,
however, we come home mightily contented. Here we met Mr.
Pickering; and he tells me that the business runs high between
the Chancellor and my Lord Bristoll against the Parliament; and
that my Lord Lauderdale and Cooper open high against the
Chancellor; which I am sorry for.
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