[2] In this play he effectively called for the peaceful succession of the pretender to the throne as James III.
[3] The Drury Lane cast included Robert Wilks as Almerick, John Mills as Rodomond, Philip Griffin as Gonzalvo, Colley Cibber as Malespine, Thomas Simpson as Meroan, Jane Rogers as Armida, Mary Kent as Irene and Anne Oldfield as Cimene.
It was not a success, partly because audiences and critics objected to its Jacobite arguments portrayed in the characters and plot.
[4] The prologue was by the Tory politician and writer George Granville, who shared the Jacobite sympathies of Higgons.
[5] A contemporary play Tamerlane by Nicholas Rowe, took the very opposite view to Higgons, presenting another historical tragedy that depicts William of Orange as a heroic figure in Whig eyes.