, and modest stale maids that had
missed their market'. Says Cibber, 'In all these, with many others,
she was extremely entertaining'. After 10 June, 1707, when she acted
Lady Sly in Carlile's _The Fortune Hunters_, her name is no longer
to be found in the bills, and in October, 1707, Mrs. Powell is
playing her parts. Mrs. Leigh's repertory was very large, and
amongst her roles were Lady Woodvil in Etheredge's _The Man of Mode_
(1676); Lady Plyant in _The Double Dealer_ (1694); the Nurse in
_Love for Love_ (1695); the Hostess in Betterton's revival of _Henry
IV_, Part I (1699); and Lady Wishfort in _The Way of the World_
(1700). In comedies by Mrs. Behn, Mrs. Leigh only appears twice,
Moretta, _The Rover_, Part I (1677); and Mrs. Closet, _The City
Heiress_ (1682).

In and about 1702 another Mrs. Leigh, perhaps Frank Leigh's wife,
made a brief appearance. She was at first cast for good parts but
soon sank into obscurity. Thus on 21 October, 1702, she sustained
Mrs. Plotwell in Mrs. Centlivre's _The Beau's Duel_; on 28 April,
1703, Chloris in the Hon. Charles Boyle's insipid _As You Find It._
She may have been the Mrs. Eli. Leigh who with other performers
signed a petition to Queen Anne in 1709. Of Mrs. Rachel Lee, who
took the 'walk-on' part of Judy, a waiting-woman, in Southern's _The
Maid's Last Prayer_ (1693), nothing is known.

p. 9 _Angelica Bianca, a famous Curtezan. Mrs. Gwin._ Anne Quin (or
Quyn, Gwin, Gwyn as the name is indifferently spelt) was a famous
actress of great personal beauty. She is constantly, but most
erroneously, confounded with Nell Gwynne, and the mistake is the
more unpardonable as both names twice occur in the same cast. When
Nelly was acting Florimel in Dryden's _Secret Love_, produced
February, 1667, Mrs. Quin played Candiope. Again, in _An Evening's
Love_, June, 1668, Nell Gwynne was Jacinta, and Mrs Quin Aurelia,
a role assumed later in the run by Mrs. Marshall. Among Mrs. Quin's
more notable parts were Alizia (Alice Perrers) in Orrery's _The
Black Prince_, produced 19 October, 1667; 1677, Thalestris in
Pordage's _The Siege of Babylon_, and Astrea in _The Constant
Nymph_; 1678, Lady Knowell in _Sir Patient Fancy_ and Lady Squeamish
in Otway's _Friendship in Fashion_; 1682, Queen Elizabeth in Banks'
_The Unhappy Favourite_, and Sunamire in Southerne's _The Loyal
Brother._ Mrs. Quin appears to have retired from the s