Nonjuror

In "The Hypocrite," a comedy still played at intervals, Cibber's "Nonjuror" survives.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

[177.1] Cibber writes here with feeling; for, after his "Nonjuror" abused the Jacobites and Nonjurors, that party took every opportunity of revenging themselves on him by maltreating his plays.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

[189.1] There can be little doubt that the "Nonjuror" was one of the causes of Pope's enmity to Cibber.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

See also note on p. 354, vol.v. Of Swift's use of the term "Nonjuror," "The Medley" (June 18th,

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706

William Law, Nonjuror and Mystic, a Sketch of his Life, Character, and

Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson

I afterwards entered a by-coffee-house that stood at the upper end of a narrow lane, where I met with a Nonjuror engaged very warmly with a laceman who was the great support of a neighboring conventicle.

All About Coffee 1909

"The Provok'd Husband," by Vanbrugh and Cibber, was produced at Drury Lane, January 10, 1728; and though Cibber's Nonjuror enemies tried to condemn it, was very successful.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

[185.2] Cibber's most notorious play, "The Nonjuror," was produced at Drury Lane on 6th December, 1717.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

But, perhaps, of all Authors, I ought not to make this sort of Complaint, because I have Reason to think that that particular Offence has made me more honourable Friends than Enemies; the latter of which I am not unwilling should know (however unequal the Merit may be to the Reward) that Part of the Bread I now eat was given me for having writ the Nonjuror.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

To give Life, therefore, to this Design, I borrow'd the Tartuffe of Moliere, and turn'd him into a modern Nonjuror: 186.1 Upon the Hypocrisy of the French Character I ingrafted a stronger Wickedness, that of an English Popish Priest lurking under the Doctrine of our own Church to raise his Fortune upon the Ruin of a Worthy Gentleman, whom his dissembled Sanctity had seduc'd into the treasonable Cause of a Roman Catholick Out-law.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889