The story of Nell Gwyn (28 page)

137 Norris (Henry), actor, nicknamed

" Jubilej Dicky," 14, 172 Norris (Mrs.), actress at the

Duke's Theatre, 14

O'Bryan (Pat), highwayman,

and Nell Gwyn, 161 Oldfield (Anne), the actress, 37 Oldys (William), his life of Nell

Gwyn, 2, 23 Orange-girls at the playhouse, 6,

16, 17 Orange Moll, mistress of the

orange-girls, 17 ; Pepys's discourse with, 45 Orleans (Henrietta, Duchess of),

arrives at Dover, 59, 99, 100;

her death, loi Ormonde (James Butler, Duke

of), Nell Gwyn's letter to, 209 32

Orrery (Roger Boyle, Earl of), his play of The Black Prince,

Otway (Thomas), the Dramatist, 72, 136 «.; probably tutor to Nell Gwyn's eldest son, 100 ; his death, 145

Oughtred (William), dies of joy at the news of the Restoration,

7

Oxford, supposed to be the birthplace of Nell Gwyn, 4«., 165 ; Nell Gwyn there in i6Si,io8 //.

Pall Mall, Nell Gwyn's houses

in, 102, 105, 187, 189 Pall Mall Place, alluded to, 32,

175

Patrick (Symon, Bishop of Ely), excuses himself from a royal chaplaincy, 87 ; his Autobiography cited, 140

Pegg (Katharine), afterwards Lady Greene {q.v.')

Pembroke (Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of), brother-in-law of the Duchess of Portsmouth, 118 ; his blunt reply to her threat, 107 ; account of him, 190

Pembroke (Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of), appointed by Nell Gwyn one of her executors, 150 ; account of him, 214

Penn (William), the Quaker, Charles II. gently rebukes him, 85

Pepys (Samuel), his Diary, quoted, 5, 17, 20, 21, 26, 27, 29. 33. 36, 42, 44. 54. 56. 57 n., 65, 66, 68 n. , 69, 70 n. , 94, 104, win., 168, 171, 172, 173,176, 177, 188 ; with his wife at the theatre, 16, 27, 29, 45, 54; talks with Orange Moll, 17, 45, 178 ; his experience with

an orange wonian, 17; his portrait painted by Hales, 20 ; composer of the music for " Beauty retire," 20, 173 ; sees Nell Gwyn for the first time, 21 ; describes her acting as Lady Wealthy, 26 ; kisses her, 27 ; enraptured with her performance of Florimel, 29; sees her standing at her door in Drury Lane on May Day, 33

Perkin, Prince, nickname of James, Duke of Monmouth, 124, 200

Peterborough (Charles Mor-daunt, Earl of), anecdote of, 108 n.

Philberds, or Filberts, near Windsor, 122, 198

Pictures depicting incidents in Nell Gwyn's life, 27 n., 105

Plays with Nell Gwyn for heroine, 163 n., 178

Portsmouth (Louise de Qu^rou-aille, Duchess of), comes to England, 100 ; installed as mistress of Charles II., loi ; the King's nickname for her, 85 ; called by the common people Mrs. Carwell, 106, 189 ; her fidelity to the King doubt ful, 106, 190 ; detested by the populace as the Popish mistress and a pensioner from France, 107 ; her visits to France, log, 191 ; her portmits, 100 n., 111; her hatred of Nell Gwyn, ic8, 191-195 ; goes into mourning for the Prince de Rohan, in, 195; alludes to Nell Gwyn's habit of swearing, 112 ; delivered of a son by the King, 117 ; created Duchess of Portsmouth, 117; her statement

233

that Charles II. was poisoned, 141, 212 ; her mourning for Charles II., 143 ; Otway dedicates his Vetiice Preserved to her, 145 n. ; account of her,

183 Potvin [perhaps identical with

Bodevine], an upholsterer,

(?)i23 «, 135, 136 Public-houses with the sign of

" Nell Gwyn," 131, 198, 202

QuEROUAiLLE (Louise Rende de Penencourt de). See Portsmouth (Duchess of)

Quin, or Quyn (Mrs. Anne), an actress constantly confounded with Nell Gwyn, 28 n., xjj, 220

Reresby (Sir John), assured by Charles II. of his steady friendship, 86 ; his Memoirs cited, 79 n., 90 n.

Restoration of King Charles II., rejoicings at the, 7

Richmond (Charles Lennox, Duke of), son of Charles II. by the Duchess of Portsmouth, 117, 118, 120; made K.G., 134, 205 ; account of him, 185

Richmond (Frances Stewart, afterwards Duchess of), Charles II.'s passion for her, 53, 69; his ungallant speech to her, 76 ; joins the Queen in a frolic near Audley End, 115 ; death of her husband, 117

Riley (John), his portrait of Cliarles II., 63, 90, 179

Roberts, or Robarts (Jane), one of Charles II.'s mistresses \see Chaloner Smith's British Mez-zotinto Portraits, pt. i, p. 119, for her portrait engraved after

Lely by Alexander Browne: also Ibid., pt. ii. p. 527, for another engraved portrait of her, attributed to Henri Gas-car], her death, 130, 149

Robinson (Mary), known as " Perdita," mistress of George, Prince of Wales, 55, 61

Rochester (John Wilmot, Earl of), his Panegyrick on Nelly cited, 166, 167 ; other quotations from his satires, 6, 13 n., 65, 68, 79, 142 ti. ; remark on the King's love of telling stories, 'j'j ; the King undisturbed by his libels, 77 ; satirical epitaph upon Charles II., 82 ; in the guise of a German fortune-teller, 117

Rochester (Laurence Hyde, Earl of), 92, 142 n. ; Nell Gwyn appoints liim one of her executors, 150; her letter to him,

207 ; account of him, 181 Rohan (Prince de), the Duchess

of Portsmouth in mourning for him, iii, 195

Romney (Earl of). Set Sidney (Henry)

Rowley, or Old Rowley, Charles II. nicknamed, 7, 84, 180

Rupert (Prince), his passion for Peg Hughes, the actress, 12, 170, 213 ; regarded as a madman by Charles II., 66

St. Albans (Charles Beauclerk, Duke of), Nell Gwyn's eldest son, born, 99 ; his hor.ours, emoluments, and places, 118, 135, 146, 155, 213 ; referred to in his mother's letters, 135,

208 ; mention of, in her will, 150; her last requests to him and his consent thereto, 151,

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155; further account of him, 218

St. Albans (Diana de Vere, Duchess of), 22, 118, 156, 218 ; Lord Halifax's lines on, 173

St. Albans (Harriet Mellon, Duchess of), 156

St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Nell Gwyn's mother buried in the church, 125 ; Nell Gwyn herself buried there, 153

Bancroft (William) appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Charles II., 95, 138

Sandford (Samuel), actor at the Duke's Theatre, 13

Saunderson (Mary), afterwards Mrs. Betterton, actress at the Duke's Theatre, 13, 22 ; her irreproachable character, 35

Savile (Jeremy), musical composer, 169

Savile,Saville (Henry), incurs the displeasure of James, Duke of York, 74; mentioned in Nell Gwyn's letter to Laurence Hyde, 207, 208

Scrope (SirCarr), song attributed to him, 37 «.; offends Nell Gwyn, 207

S^vign^ (Madame de), her lively description of the rivalry between Nell Gwyn and the Duchess of Portsmouth, no,

193

Shadwell (Thomas), his dramas cited, 6, 14, 35; illustrative of the maimers of his age, 40, 41, 55; brings Sir Robert Howard on the st

Shaftesbury (.Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of), his saying

in regard to Charles II., 75 ; called by Charles II. the greatest rogue in England, 91 ; his witty answer to the King, 96 ; his description of the royal mistresses, 114

Shank (John), actor at the Blackfriars' Theatre, 11, 171

Sharpe (Charles Kirkpatrick), his note on Nell Gwyn's birthplace, 4 «.; his memoranda for this story of Nell Gwyn, 142 n,

Shatterell (Robert), actor at the King's Theatre, 10, 11

Sheffield (John), third Earl of Mulgrave, afterwards first Duke of Buckingham, on Charles II.'s love of telling stories, 77; his satires not resented by Charles II., 78 ; on the King's death, 140

Sheppard (Sir Fleetwood), tutor to Charles Beauclerk, Nell Gwyn's eldest son, 100, 183

Sheridan (Richard Brinsley), excluded from Brooks's by George Selwyn, 35

Shirley (James), a song by him often sung to Charles II. by Bowman, 71, 144

Sliore (Jane), i, 162

Shrewsbury (Anna Maria, Countess of), 138

Sidney (Henry), afterwards Earl of Romney, one of Nell Gwyn's friends, 124 ; his Diary cited, 80 «., 84 «., 148 «., 206

Smith (William), actor at the Duke's Theatre, 13

South (Robert), his reproof to Lauderdale, 64; Charles II.'s appreciation of him, 92, 181

Stage, licence of the, 104. Set also Theatres

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Stewart (Frances, called La Belle). See Richmond (Duchess of)

Stillingfleet (Dr. Edward) and Charles II., 87

Strand, the maypole in the, 33 ; Nell Gwyn's "dairy" in the, 122, 198

Sussex (Thomas Lennard, Earl of), his marriage, 115; account of him, 196

Symcott (Margaret), alleged to be Nell Gwyn's true name, 166

Tenison (Archbishop), his kindly feeling for Nell Gwyn, 147; ministers to her on her deathbed, 149; preaches her funeral sermon according to her wish, i, 151, 153 ; forbids in his will either funeral sermon or oration at his own interment, 155 Theatres, revival of the, at the Restoration, 7, 169 ; scenery and dresses at the, 14 ; time of performances, 16 ; prices of admission, 16; how gallants should behave there, 17 ; coxcombs at the, 55; described as nests of prostitution, 103 Thynne (Thomas), 149 Tring Park, monument in, 221 Tunbridge Wells, Nell Gwyn

acts at, 178 Turberville (Edward), 149 n.

Underhill (Cave), actor at the

Duke's Theatre, 13 Uphill (Mrs.), actress at the

King's Theatre, 10, 12 Urquhart (Sir Thomas), laughs

himself to death at the news

of the Restoration, 7

Vii.LiERS (Edward, Viscount)"

>S6'(; Jersey (Earl of) Viner, or Vyner (Sir Robert),

and Charles II. at a Guildhall

banquet, 83

Walpole (Horace), collected the sayings of Charles II., 81, 82; delighted with Nell Gwyn's letter, 136, 206

Walter (Lucy), mother of the Duke of Monmouth, 124 ; account of her, 200

Ward (Edward Matthew), R.A., his picture of Charles II. and Nell Gwyn, 105

Warner (Sir John), Charles II.'s opinion of him, 95

Whitcombe (Robert), dedicates a book to Nell Gwyn, 132, 133' 203

William of Orange, his marriage to the Princess Mary, 94

Williams (Lady), 135, 136 ; account of her, 207

Winchester, Nell Gwyn at, 137

Windsor, Nell Gwyn's house at, 122, 123

W^intershall (William), actor at the King's Theatre, 10, 11

Wolley, or Woolley (Edward, Bishop of Clonferi;, Charles II.'s opinion of him, 91

Women act in plays for the first time at the Restoration, 8, 11

Wren (Sir Christopher) and Charles II., 88 ; architect of the King's new palace at Winchester, 137

YONGE (Sir William), Sir Robert Walpole's opinion of, 68

Young Gallant's Academy, quoted, 17

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