Abstract
RECENT research uncovers some intriguing facts and adds material to Johnson’s Life of Rochester. Then, on January 29, to the astonishment of practically everyone, Elizabeth Mallet eloped with John Wilmot. The lovers evidently were married secretly outside London; their appearance at the Duke’s Theater on February 4 at a performance of Heraclius caused a stir. Samuel Pepys and his wife were part of a full house there; and Pepys had just been admiring Francis Stuart with her hair done up in stylish puffes when he spotted the newlyweds. Here I saw my Lord Rochester and his lady, Mrs. Mallett, who hath after all this ado married him; and, as I hear some say in the pit, it is a great act of charity, for he hath no estate. But it was pleasant to see how everybody rose up when my Lord Jo. Butler, the Duke of Ormonds son, came into the pit toward the end of the play, who was a servant to Mrs. Mallett, and now smiled upon her and she on him.1
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