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• Soon after his restoration in 1660 he granted exclusive staging rights, so-called Royal patents, to the King's Company and the Duke's Company, led by two middle-aged Caroline playwrights, Thomas Killigrew and William Davenant.
• Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras and who was active both before and after the English Civil War and during the Interregnum.
• August 21 – The newly restored King Charles II of England issues a royal grant for two theatre companies: a King's Company under his own patronage, led by Thomas Killigrew, and a Duke's Company under the patronage of his brother, the Duke of York and future King James II, led by Sir William Davenant.
• January 21 – Salmacida Spolia, a masque written by Sir William Davenant and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace.
• February 6 – Luminalia, a masque written by Sir William Davenant and designed by Inigo Jones, is staged at the English Court.
• When Charles II allowed Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Davenant to form two theatre companies under royal patronage, the King's Company and the Duke's Company, in August 1660, Herbert complained bitterly at what he perceived as the violation of his rights, and started court actions; he was especially irate with Davenant, who had carried on clandestine theatrical performances in the 1656–1660 period, without Herbert benefitting.
• Edward Davenant told me that this learned man had a shrew to his wife, who was irreconcileably angrie with him for sitting-up late at night so, compileing his Dictionarie, (Thesaurus linguae Romanae et Britannicae, Londini, 1584; dedicated to Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, and Chancellor of Oxford).
• Arthur Acheson suggested that Matthew Roydon may have been the author, arguing that the poem obliquely described Shakespeare's relationship to Jane Davenant, the mother of William Davenant, who later hinted that he was Shakespeare's son.
• On the opening of the new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1661, Davenant, the patentee of the Duke's Company, engaged Betterton and all Rhodes's company to play in his The Siege of Rhodes.
• Other friends among English Whigs were Charles Davenant, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Walter Moyle, William Stephens and John Trenchard.
• Chesterton - Henry Chettle - John Clare - John Cleveland - Arthur Hugh Clough - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - William Collins - William Congreve - Richard Corbet - William Cornish - William Cory - Abraham Cowley - George Crabbe - Richard Crashaw - Samuel Daniel - George Darley - William Davenant - John Davidson - John Davies - W.
• Joe Lee Davis listed eleven playwrights in this group: Richard Brome, Thomas Nabbes, Henry Glapthorne, Thomas Killigrew, Sir William Davenant, William Cartwright, Shackerley Marmion, Jasper Mayne, Peter Hausted, Thomas Randolph, and William Cavendish.
• Vertue also states that before the Duke of Chandos acquired it, the portrait was owned by Shakespeare's possible godson, William Davenant (1606–1668), who, according to the gossip chronicler John Aubrey, claimed to be the playwright's illegitimate son.
• Charles Davenant (1656 – 1714) was an English economist, Tory politician and pamphleteer who sat in the Parliament of England representing the parliamentary constituencies of St Ives and Great Bedwyn.
• Henry Aldrich – Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling – Jacob Allestry – Mary Astell – William Austin – Sir Robert Ayton – William Basse – Richard Baxter – Francis Beaumont – Sir John Beaumont – Joseph Beaumont – Thomas Beedome – Aphra Behn – Edward Benlowes – Henry Bold – Anne Bradstreet – Richard Brathwait – Alexander Brome – Sir Thomas Browne – William Browne of Tavistock – John Bunyan – Robert Burton – Samuel Butler – Thomas Campian – Thomas Carew – James Carkesse – William Cartwright – Patrick Cary – Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle – William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle – John Chalkhill – William Chamberlayne – George Chapman – John Cleveland – John Collop – Richard Corbett – Charles Cotton – Abraham Cowley – Richard Crashaw – Hugh Crompton – John Cutts, Lord Cutts – Alicia D'Anvers – Thomas D'Urfey – John Dancer – George Daniel – Samuel Daniel – Sir William Davenant – Robert Davenport – Thomas Dekker – Sir John Denham – John Digby, Earl of Bristol – John Donne – Michael Drayton – William Drummond of Hawthornden – John Dryden – Richard Duke – 'Ephelia' – Sir George Etherege – Mary Evelyn – Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax – Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland – Sir Richard Fanshawe – Henry Farley – George Farquhar – Owen Feltham – Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea – Thomas Flatman – Richard Flecknoe – Giles Fletcher – John Fletcher – Phineas Fletcher – John Ford – Simon Ford – Thomas Forde – Sidney Godolphin – James Graham, Marquis of Montrose – Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke – William Habington – Henry Hall – John Hall – Henry Halswell – William Hammond – Samuel Harding – Sir John Harington – Christopher Harvey – Sir R.
• It was continuously in the repertory there and at the Red Bull Theatre, under the managements of Christopher Beeston, William Beeston, and Sir William Davenant, down to the closing of the theatres at the start of the English Civil War in 1642.
• As the manager of the troupe, Mohun came to an agreement with the Master of the Revels to pay fees for the privilege of performing; but eventually, like Jolly and Rhodes, he was out-manoeuvred by Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Davenant.
• William Davenant, who would become one of the major impresarios of the English Restoration, also wrote pre-Revolutionary masques with Inigo Jones.
• Davenant was far behind, but chose to put all his capital into the outfitting of a new superior playhouse in Lincoln's Inn Fields (simultaneously, with great foresight, prying loose the rising young star Thomas Betterton from the King's Company), which was received positively by the public.
• Charles was a keen theatre-goer, and promptly gave two royal patents to Sir Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Davenant.

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