Charles Rex Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Members of the Family Currently Played Sir Charles Sedley [NPC] Mistress Catherine Sedley [NPC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Rex Posted July 16, 2015 Author Share Posted July 16, 2015 Charles Sedley Full Name: Charles Sedley Nationality: English Title: Baronet Age: 38 (b. 1639) Gender: Male Eye Color: Blue Hair Color: Blond Marital Status: Married, but estranged Personality and Physical Attributes A wealthy, generously endowed man, who was raised to a baronetcy because he was in favour with Charles II. While he behaved outrageous in his youth in later years he turned more political. Works He was part of the Merry Gang.. Sedley is also occasionally associated with a notorious gang of unbridled revellers who called themselves Ballers and who were active between 1660 and 1670. It was probably Sedley who wrote the Ballers' Oath on behalf of them. However his most famous poem is: Phyllis is my only joy,Faithless as the winds or seas; Sometimes coming, sometimes coy, Yet she never fails to please; If with a frown I am cast down, Phyllis smiling, And beguiling, Makes me happier than before. Though, alas! too late I find Nothing can her fancy fix, Yet the moment she is kind I forgive her all her tricks; Which, though I see, I can’t get free; She deceiving, I believing; What need lovers wish for more? Background The son of Sir John Sedley, 4th Baronet, of Aylesford in Kent, and wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Savile. The Sedleys (also sometimes spelled Sidley) had been prominent in Kent since at least 1337. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, but left without taking a degree. Sedley is famous as a patron of literature in the Restoration period, and was the Lisideius of Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy. His most famous song, Phyllis is my only joy, is much more widely known now than the author's name. In 1663 an indecent frolic in Bow Street, for which he was heavily fined, made Sedley notorious. He was Member of Parliament for New Romney in Kent, and took an active and useful part in politics.His first comedy, The Mulberry Garden (1668), hardly sustains Sedley's contemporary reputation for wit in conversation. He also wrote Antony and Cleopatra (1667). He is married but estranged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Rex Posted July 16, 2015 Author Share Posted July 16, 2015 Catherine Sedley Full Name: Catherine Sedley Nationality: English Age: 20 (b. 1657) Gender: Female Eye Color: Blue Hair Color: Blonde Marital Status: Single Physical Attributes and Personality A practical girl entirely capable of being charming when she wants to be, and in possession of a high opinion of herself. She disapproves of her father, and backchats him publicly. Background The daughter of Sir Charles Sedley, a very wealthy poet numbered amongst King Charles II's favourites. Former mistress to James Stuart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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