years after, to have laid the foundation of the Christian church there, before the arrival of an apostle. They also went to Ephesus, and after the departure of St. Paul from that city, remained, steadily going on in pursuit of their holy purpose, in which they were afterwards assisted by their former proselyte, Apollos.
PROBA-FALCONIA, Author of a Virgilian Canto on the Life of our Saviour, written in the Reign of Theodosius and Honorius.
This lady, who was married to a person of proconsular dignity, was accused by some of having betrayed Rome into the hands of Alaric the Goth; but Cæsar Baronius has fully cleared her from that disloyal imputation.
PRITCHARD (MRS.)
This celebrated English actress was, when very young, recommended to Mr. Booth, the manager, who was exceedingly pleased with her manner of reciting; and though then little connected with the theatre, he encouraged her to apply to some other governing person of the stage.
Her first appearance was, it is said, in one of Fielding's pieces, at the Little Theatre, in the Haymarket; then in Goodman's fields; and soon after in Bartholomew Fair, where she gained the applause of the public, by her easy, unaffected manner of speaking.
She was a candidate for theatrical fame in 1733, when the principal actors of Drury-lane revolted from Mr. Highmore, and opened the play-house in
