. This fashionable Ordinary stood
on the site of Drummond's Bank, Charing Cross. It was named from Adam
Locket, the landlord, who died in 1688. In 1702, however, we find an
Edward Locket, probably a son, as proprietor. The reputation of the
house was on the wane during the latter years of Anne, and in the reign
of George I its vogue entirely ceased. There are very frequent
references. In _The Country Wife_ (1675), Horner tells Pinchwife: 'Thou
art as shy of my kindness as a Lombard-street alderman of a courtier's
civility at Locket's' (IV, iii). In Shadwell's _The Scowerers_ (1691),
old Tope, replying to a health, cries: 'I'll answer you in a couple of
Brimmers of Claret at Locket's at Dinner' (I, i). In Vanbrugh's _The
Relapse_ (1696), Lord Foppington, when asked if he dines at home,
surmises: ''tis passible I may dine with some of aur House at Lacket's,'
which shows that it was then the very rendezvous of fashion and quality.

p. 27 _A King and no King._ Langbaine testifies to the popularity of
Beaumont and Fletcher's play both before and after the Restoration.
Pepys saw it 14 March, 1661, and again, 26 September the same year. The
1676 quarto 'as it is now acted at the Theatre Royal by his Majestie's
Servants' gives a full cast with Hart as Arbaces; Kynaston, Tigranes;
Mohun, Mardonius; Lacy, Bessus; Mrs. Betty Cox, Panthea; Mrs. Marshall,
Spaconia. In the earlier production Nell Gwynne had acted Panthea. The
two Companies amalgamated in 1682, opening 16 November. Hart 'never
Acted more' after this date. Mrs. Marshall had retired in 1677; and in
1683 Betterton was playing Arbaces with quite a new allotment of the
other roles.

p. 27 _The Rose._ There are repeated references to this celebrated
tavern which stood in Russell Street, Covent Garden. _vide_ _The Younger
Brother_, I, ii (Vol. IV), Motteux' Song: 'Thence to the Rose where he
takes his three Flasks,' and the note on that passage.

p. 29 _The London-Cuckolds._ Ravenscroft's rollicking comedy, which had
been produced with great success at the Duke's House in 1682 (4to,
1682), long kept the boards with undiminished favour, being very
frequently given each season. Genest has the following true and
pertinent remark: 'If it be the province of Comedy not to retail
morality to a yawning pit but to make the audience laugh and to keep
them in good humour this play must be allowed to be one of the best
Comedies in the English language.' 29 October (the old Lord Mayor'