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August 24 – Samuel Pepys sees the new production of Hamlet by Sir William Davenant's troupe of actors, the Duke's Company, with the innovation of stage scenery.The Duke's Company have recently moved from the Salisbury Court Theatre to the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, where they have been joined by Thomas Betterton; Pepys praises Betterton's Prince Hamlet as "beyond imagination."
28 June – Lisle's Tennis Court in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London is opened as a playhouse. [3] 1 October – a yacht race from Greenwich to Gravesend between King Charles and James, Duke of York makes the sport fashionable. [1] October Collection of a "free and voluntary present" of cash for the King from householders commences.
Lisle's Tennis Court was a building off Portugal Street in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. Originally built as a real tennis court, it was used as a playhouse during two periods, 1661–1674 and 1695–1705. During the early period, the theatre was called Lincoln's Inn Fields Playhouse, also known as The Duke's Playhouse, The New Theatre or The ...
During the 17th century, the house was known as the Fountain Inn and was visited by Samuel Pepys on 14 October 1661. He wrote "In the afternoon Captain Ferrers and I walked abroad to several places; among others, to Mr. Pim's my Lord's tailors and there he went out with us to the Fountain tavern and did give us store of wine.
The Modyford Baronetcy, of Lincoln's Inn, was created in the Baronetage of England on 1 March 1664 for Thomas Modyford, Governor of Jamaica from 1664 to 1670. He was the brother of the first Baronet of the 1661 creation. The title became extinct on the early death of the fifth Baronet in 1702.
In 1660 he became treasurer of Lincoln's Inn and on 26 October 1660 he was sworn serjeant-at-law. He was one of those designated a member of the projected order of Knights of the Royal Oak . He was re-elected MP for Northampton in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament , and sat until 16 November 1663 when he was raised to the bench as Baron of the ...
He matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford on 24 April 1635, aged about 17 and was a student of Gray's Inn in 1636. [2] In 1658, he succeeded his father to the estate of Dawley in Harlington. He was made a Knight of the Bath on 23 April 1661 at the coronation of Charles II [1] and was Lieutenant of the Gentlemen Pensioners. [2]
1 November 1661 Sir Richard Spencer (1593 − 1 November 1661) was an English nobleman, gentleman, knight, and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1629 and in 1661. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War .
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