Early Life, Theatre Career
Davis was born around 1648 in Westminster and was said by Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist, to be "a bastard of Collonell Howard, my Lord Barkeshire" - probably meaning Thomas Howard, third Earl of Berkshire.
During the early 1660s she was an actress in the 'Duke's Theatre Company' and boarded with the company's manager, Sir William Davenant.
She became a popular singer, dancer and comedian, but the wife of Pepys called her "the most impertinent slut in the world".
Read more about this topic: Moll Davis
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