From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)
... and I to the King's house by chance, where a new play; so full as I never saw it, I forced to stand all the while close to the very door, till I took cold, and many people went away for want of room. The King and Queen and Duke of York and Duchesse there and all the Court, and Sir W. Coventry. The play called /The Change of Crownes/, a play of Ned Howard's, the best that I ever saw at that House, being a great play and serious only ... -- Pepys' Diary, 15 Apr. 1667