 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1897 - 666 pages
...opposed by the court : it was said the players were the king's servants, and a part of his pleasure. Coventry asked, whether did the king's pleasure lie among the men or the women that acted ? This was carried with great indignation to the court. It was said this was the first time that the... | |
 | J. Holden Macmichael - Charing Cross (London, England) - 1906 - 404 pages
...playhouses. In the course of the debate Sir John Coventry, commenting on the King's licentiousness, asked " Whether did the King's pleasure lie among the men or the women that acted?" The allusion was obviously intended to apply to Nell Gwynn and Moll Davis. The King's friends expressed... | |
 | Hugh Noel Williams - Great Britain - 1915 - 448 pages
...did not fail to take advantage of the opening thus afforded him, and inquired, with much gravity, " whether did the King's pleasure lie among the men or the women that acted ? " This impertinent allusion to the Sovereign's amours was reported to his Majesty, and " it was said... | |
 | Johannes Prinz, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester - Poets, English - 1927 - 512 pages
...tax on playhouses, Coventry, a member of the opposition, asked in the course of the debate "whether the king's pleasure lie among the men or the women that acted". This allusion was obviously intended to apply to Nell Gwyn and Moll Davies. The King's friends greatly... | |
 | Gerald M. MacLean - History - 1995 - 314 pages
...conversation with Killigrew.) When Sir John Coventry proposed a tax on playhouses and asked, in the Commons, "whether did the king's pleasure lie among the men or the women that acted," the king (already the father of ten acknowledged bastards by five different mothers) grew concerned... | |
 | Arthur Lawrence Hayward - History - 2002 - 700 pages
...them. 1 Sir John Coventry, MP for Weymouth, in the course of a debate on a proposed levy on playhouses, asked " whether did the king's pleasure lie among the men or the women that a&ed ? " This open allusion to Charles's relations with Nell Gwynn and Moll Davies enraged the Court... | |
 | James Turner - History - 2002 - 380 pages
...pleasure', consequently exempt from jurisdiction and taxation; when Coventry then asked in the Commons 'whether did the king's pleasure lie among the men or the women that acted', the king (already the father of ten acknowledged bastards byfive different mothers) grew furious at... | |
 | Peter Thomson - Drama - 2006 - 259 pages
...and a part of his pleasure'. Coventry, an independently minded Catholic, asked the House of Commons 'whether did the king's pleasure lie among the men or the women that acted'. That night, evidently on Charles's orders, Coventry was ambushed by twenty- five of the Duke of Monmouth's... | |
 | Arthur Collins - Great Britain - 1812 - 822 pages
..." The players were the King'* servants, and a part of his pleasure." Whereupon Sir John Cor ventry asked, " Whether did the King's pleasure lie among the men, or the women that acted ?" This was carried with great indignation to the court. It was said, " This was the first time that... | |
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Whether did the King's pleasure lie among the men, or the women that acted '.." This was carried with great indignation to the court. It was said, 
