“ The Academy being thus dissolved, some of the nobility raised a new subscription for an opera at Lincoln's-inn-fields, in which Porpora was engaged to compose, and Senefino to sing, Senesino continued in the service of the nobility, singing at Lincoln's-inn-fields theatre, and afterwards at the Haymarket, which Handel had quitted, till about the year 173S when, having acquired the sum of 15,000 l., he retired to Sienna, the place of his nativity, and built a handsome house, which, upon his decease, he bequeathed, together with the whole of his fortune, to his relations. ”

“ For the reason of her quitting England we are to seek, unless we may suppose, that the applause bestowed on Cuzzoni, who appeared on the stage for two or three winters with her, was more than she could bear. ”