p. 9 _Sancho, Pimp to Lucetta. Mr. John Lee._ There were at this time two actors and two actresses of the name Lee, Leigh, who, especially in view of the eclectic spelling of seventeenth-century proper names, need to be carefully distinguished. John Lee, who appeared in the small rôle of Sancho and also took the equally unimportant part of Sebastian in _Abdelazer_ this same year, had, according to Downes, joined the Duke’s Company about 1670. He never rose above an entirely insignificant line, and we find him cast as Alexas in Pordage’s _Herod and Mariamne_, 1673; Titiro in Settle’s _Pastor Fido_, 1676; Pedro in Porter’s _The French Conjurer_, and Noddy in _The Counterfeit Bridegroom_, 1677. He was, it is almost certain, the husband of the famous Mrs. Mary Lee. Downes’ entry runs as follows: ‘_Note_, About the year 1670, Mrs. _Aldridge_, after Mrs. _Lee_, after Lady _Slingsby_, also Mrs. _Leigh_ Wife, Mr. _John Lee_, Mr. _Crosby_, Mrs. _Johnson_, were entertain’d in the Dukes House.’ There is of course some confusion here. Antony Leigh, it may be noted, is not mentioned in the _Roscius Anglicanus_ for another three years to come (1673), and there can be little doubt that the above passage should read ‘also Mrs. Leigh’s [Lee’s] husband, Mr John Lee’. If this were not so, there would be no point in Downes 439 mentioning so minor an actor at this juncture and in such a list. Crosby and Mrs. Johnson were both performers of great merit, in fact Downes, a page later, has a special warm word of praise for the lady whom we find cast as Carolina in Shadwell’s _Epsom Wells_ (1672). Crosby played such parts as Mr. Cleverwit, Lucia’s lover, in Ravenscroft’s _Mamamouchi_ (1672), Alonzo in _Abdelazer_ (1677), Leander Fancy in _Sir Patient Fancy_ (1678). John Lee disappears entirely after 1677, and his widow is first billed as Lady Slingsby in 1681. For a full account of this great tragedienne see note on _Abdelazer_, Vol. II.