Mrs.Norris was an actress of small note attached to Davenant's company; she was the mother of Henry Norris, a popular comedian, surnamed "Jubilee Dicky," from his performance of the part of Dicky in Farquhar's "Constant Couple." Chetwood correctly describes her as "ONE of the first women that came on the stage as an actress." To her, as to Mrs.
Betterton, the objection applies that she was a member of Davenant's company--not of Killigrew's--and therefore could not have appeared in Vere Street.

Moreover, she never attained such a position in her profession as would have entitled her to assume a part of the importance of Desdemona.
On the whole, the case of Mrs.Hughes seems to have the support of more probabilities than any other.

But even if it is to be accepted as a fact that she was in truth the first actress, there the matter remains.

Very little is known of the lady.

She lived in a world which kept scarcely any count of its proceedings--which left no record behind to be used as evidence, either for or against it.