100 years". In 1748–9 she played two original parts, one of which, at least, exercised an important influence on her reputation. This was Irene in Samuel Johnson's Mahomet and Irene, since known as Irene, which was given on 6 Feb. 1749. In this, as first produced, Irene was strangled on the stage. Audiences that accepted the suffocation scene in Othello need not, perhaps, have been expected to be more sensitive with regard to the bowstring in Irene. The audience, however, on the first night of Mahomet and Irene shouted 'murder,’ and Mrs. Pritchard, unable to finish the scene, retired from the stage. The termination was altered; but Johnson seems never to have forgiven a woman he associated with his misfortune. Her other original part, 15 April, was Merope in Aaron Hill's adaptation from Voltaire. On 24 Feb. 1750 she was the original Horatia in Whitehead's Roman Father, adapted from Les Horaces of Pierre Corneille, on 2 Feb. 1751 the first Aurora in Moore's Gil Blas, on 17 Feb. 1752 the first Orphisa in Francis's Eugenia, and 7 Feb. 1753 the first Mrs. Beverley in the Gamester, perhaps her greatest part. The season of 1753–4 saw her in three original characters: Boadicea in Glover's tragedy so named, Catherine in Catherine and Petruchio, Garrick's adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, and Creusa in Whitehead's Creusa. Among other parts that she had sustained under Garrick were Lady Alworth in A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Emilia in Othello, Lady Brumpton in the Funeral, Cleopatra in All for Love, Lady Betty Modish, Millamant, Zara in the Mourning Bride, Lady Truman in the Drummer, Queen Elizabeth in Jones's Essex, Hermione, Countess of Rousillon, and Estifania. On 9 Oct. 1756 she played Lady Capulet to the Juliet of her daughter, Miss Pritchard, and the Romeo of Garrick. In Home's 'Agis' on 21 Feb. 1758 Mrs. Pritchard was the first Agesistrata, and in Arthur Murphy's Desert Island on 24 Jan. 1760 the first Constantia. On 3 Jan. 1761 she was the original Queen Elizabeth in Brookes's 'Earl of Essex,’ and on 12 Feb. the original Mrs. Oakly in Colman's Jealous Wife. On 11 Dec. she was the first Hecuba in John Delap's Hecuba. In Mallet's Elvira on 19 Jan. 1763 she was the first Queen, and in Mrs. Sheridan's Discovery on 3 Feb. the first Lady Medway. On 10 Dec. she was the original Mrs.