Nell Gwynne, or the Prologue
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Excerpt from Nell Gwynne, or the Prologue: A Comedy in Two Acts On the death of Charles our heroine lived a secluded life. She inhabited a house, in Pall-Mall, built for her on her retirement from the stage by the king. According to Pennant (in his Account of London,) the walls of the back room on the ground floor, were entirely covered with looking-glass, as, it was said, the ceiling had been. Over the chimney, was her picture. At this house, she died, in November, 1687; the day of the month is unknown. Her mother was drowned near the Neat-houses, Chelsea, in July, 1679. Any further account of her kindred has escaped research. She was interred on the 17th of November in the old church of St. Martin´s-in-the-Fields: her funeral sermon was preached by Dr. Tenison, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. The Queen, in allusion to the circumstance, said she was convinced the deceased had merited the praises of the worthy Doctor, or he had never bestowed them. Among the correspondence of Sir George Etherege, with the Scotch College, at Ratisbon, is a letter to him, from his under secretary, Mr. Wigmore, written on the 18th of November, in which he acquaints him - "Last night was buried Mad. Ellen Gwyn, the D. of St. Alban´s mother. She has made a very formal will, and died richer than she seemed to be whilst she lived. She is said to have died piously and penitently; and as she dispensed several charities in her lifetime, so she left several such legacies at her death; but what is much admired is, she died worth, and left to D. St. Alban´s, vivis et modis, about 1,000,000l. sterling, a great many say more, few less." "The assertion of her dying worth a million of money (says a writer in The Athenoeum) is hardly worth attention; the extract from the original letter, by Seward, must have contained a 0 too much. What the Duke of Buckingham told Bishop Burnet, that Nell´s first demand on the king was five hundred a year, which he rejected; but that in about four years afterwards, she had managed to obtain more than sixty thousand pounds, goes far to make up the one hundred thousand, which it is more generally allowed she died possessed of. "The will and codicil, now first published, will set at rest many vague stories relative to the disposal of her property, which was bequeathed in the bulk to her only surviving son, Charles Beau-clerc, Duke of St. Alban´s. The will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Dec. 7, 1687, and the original given up to Sir Robert Sawyer, on the 18th of Feb. following. The documents in the archieves of the Court are official copies, with an autograph receipt for the original, by Sir Robert Sawyer, attached. Any reference to the depository of the original, has eluded my particular inquiries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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