A Short History of the Late Mr Peter Anthony Motteux a Native of France Whilom
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All say that he was a rich East- India merchant in Leadenhall Street, was con- nected with the foreign department of the Post- Office. Had a wife, and was of licentious habits, and died a very peculiar death ; and then they give an incomplete list of his works, and pass on to the biography of another gentleman, whose name comes next in alphabetical order. We will attempt to elucidate M. Motteux's career a little more, even with the very meagre records which exist. M. Motteux came to England in ...1685, when he was already twenty-five years old. He seems hardly to have frequented any of his fellow-refugees, or visited 17 That his wife was named Priscilla, is mentioned in the register of St. Andrew Undershaft, for the year 1705, where Motteux's son, Anthony, was christened. LIFE OF MOTTEUX. 35 their favourite place of meeting, the Rainbow Coffee- house in Marylebone, but only to have made friends with Englishmen. According to a remark I made about the Preface of his first comedy, Love's a Jest, acted in 1696, he was then single, but we may take it for granted that he saw the error of his ways, and married a few years after- wards, for on the third of October, 1705, was christened, in the church of St.
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