Weaver had taken some leading roles and Richard Flecknoe wrote a play for her but it is not certain that it was ever staged.
Not much is known of her former history but Samuel Pepys wrote that he was told that she had lost her virginity[2] to King Charles II.
This was before the King started his affair with the actress Nell Gwynne and Pepys did not approve of the prince's behaviour.
[3] Weaver was sacked by Sir Robert Howard and asked to return all her scripts as he was shocked to find out that she was pregnant.
He wrote of his shock even though she had been appearing as Biancha, an unrepentant adulteress in the play Love's Sacrifice.