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Mary "Moll" Davis, also spelt Davies or Davys, was a courtesan and mistress of King Charles II of England. She was an actress and entertainer before and during her role as royal mistress.
27 de nov. de 2022 · There was competition between Nell and her friend Moll Davis, and it was Davis who managed to win the King’s affections first, receiving gifts and being called to his bed chamber often. To win the upper hand, it is said that Nell played an awful trick on Davis, putting laxatives in her supper before she went to see the King for the night.
3 de may. de 2024 · Moll Davis, the leading coquette of the Duke's company, could not match Nell Gwynn in comedic skills; where Nell was spontaneous and witty, Moll was simply coarse. But she was the better dancer of the two. The second-rate poet Richard Flecknoe, who disapproved of theatre-folk for their loose morals, nevertheless gave Moll credit for her talent:
19 de may. de 2022 · Portrait of Moll Davis (1640–1708), by Peter Lely. Summary [ edit ] Peter Lely : Mrs Moll Davis (1640–c.1721), Actress and Mistress of Charles II ( )
Moll's surname 'Davis' or 'Davies' is clearly a stage name or an assumed name, and so the spelling is therefore not of great importance. Sources . Wikipedia Article. Accessed 11 July 2021. Moll Davis] Wilson, J. H. 'All The King's Ladies: Actresses of the Restoration', 1958. Clays Extinct Northern Peerages p. 176; More Genealogy Tools
15 de nov. de 2017 · portrait of Mary “Moll” Davis (1675) image: WikiArt. The word miss, used as a title prefixed to the name of an unmarried woman or girl and as a form of address, was originally short for mistress. It first appeared as mis, perhaps a graphic abbreviation of the form mistris. (Similarly, Mr and Mrs are abbreviations of master and mistress.)
Mary "Moll" Davis (ca. 1648 - 1708) was a seventeenth-century entertainer and courtesan, singer and actress who became one of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England. Davis was born around 1648 in Westminster and was said by Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist, to be "a bastard of Collonell Howard, my Lord Barkeshire" - probably meaning Thomas Howard, third Earl of Berkshire.[1] During ...
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