Event Comment: Receipts: #156 8s. Probable attendance: boxes, 237 paid and 7 orders; stage, 8 paid; balcony, 5 paid; pit, 287 paid; slips, 54 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 370 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 184 paid

Event Comment: Receipts. #170 5s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 306 paid and 2 orders; staoe, 46 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 263 paid and 2 orders; slips, 59 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 417 paid; second gallery, 180 paid. Daily Journal, 12 Feb.: The Beggar's Opera is continued acting...with the greatest Applause, and to an Audience as numerous as ever. And we are informed, That most of the Boxes are taken to the 25th Night. [See also Gay to the Earl of Oxford, 12 Feb., in Correspondence of Pope, II, 473.

Event Comment: Receipts: #164 8s. Probable attendance: boxes, 300 paid and 2 orders; stage, 15 paid; balcony, 5 paid; pit, 270 paid; slips, 57 paid; first gallery, 436 paid; second gallery, 189 paid and 3 orders

Event Comment: Receipts; #171 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 230 paid and 10 orders; stage, 39 paid; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 290 paid; slips, 63 paid; first gallery, 428 paid; second gallery, 181 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 11s.Probable attendance: boxes, 220 paid and 5 orders; stage, 14 paid; balcony, 3 paid; pit, 280 paid; slips, 61 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 427 paid; second gallery, 180 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #171 8s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 301 paid and 2 orders; stage 41 paid; balcony, 3 paid; pit, 281 paid and 4 orders; slips, 59 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 432 paid and 5 orders; second gallery, 185 paid. [For an essay on this play, see Craftsman, 17 Feb.

Event Comment: Receipts: #163 16s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 207 paid and 8 orders; stage, 35 paid; balcony, 2 paid; pit, 294 paid and 5 orders; slips, 59 paid; first gallery, 435 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 190 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #158 13s. Probable attendance: boxes, 212 paid and 3 orders; stage, 26 paid; balcony, 3 paid; pit, 287 paid; slips, 48 paid; first gallery, 410 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 195 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 9s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 236 paid; stage, 44 paid; balcony, 2 paid; Pit, 290 Paid and 3 orders; slips, 47 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 419 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 189 paid. For a comment on the play by Thomas Edwards, see V. M. Gilbert, Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others, Notes and Queries, August 1953, pp. 337-38

Event Comment: Receipts: #163 17s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 222 paid and 3 orders; stage, 41 paid; balcony, 3 paid; pit, 281 paid and 1 order; slips, 52 paid; first gallery, 406 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 188 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #179 8s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 234 paid and 5 orders; stage, 47 paid; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 300 paid and 2 orders; slips, 56 paid; first gallery, 403 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 193 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #161 7s. Probable attendance: boxes, 221 paid and 3 orders; stage, 13 paid; balcony, 7 paid; pit, 289 paid; slips, 56 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 424 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 199 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #169 3s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 237 paid and 7 orders; stage, 34 paid; balcony, 3 paid; Pit, 284 paid; slips, 59 paid; first galllery, 429 paid; second gallery, 192 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #163 18s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 230 paid and 3 orders; stage, 28 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 273 paid and 3 orders; slips, 57 paid; first gallery, 420 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 195 paid. Daily Journal, 28 Feb.: Whereas Mrs Barbier has advertized that the Beggar's Opera is to be performed, for her Benefit, on the 16th of March next; This is to inform the Publick, That such Advertisement was published without Consent of Mr Rich, and that the same will not be allow'd of

Event Comment: Receipts: #168 4s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 230 paid and 4 orders; stage, 37 paid; balcony, 3 paid; Pit, 280 paid and 2 orders; slips, 55 paid; first gallery, 427 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 194 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #153 3s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 180 paid and 10 orders; stage, 26 paid; balcony, 5 paid; Pit, 289 paid and 2 orders; slips, 53 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 424 paid; second gallery, 200 paid and 3 orders.[For a letter on this play, see Daily Journal, 1 March.

Event Comment: Receipts: #165 12s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 230 paid and 6 orders; stage, 36 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 285 paid and 1 order; slips, 57 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 414 paid; second gallery, 190 paid and 2 orders

Event Comment: Receipts: #152 8s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 179 paid and 10 orders; stage, 26 paid; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 276 paid and 2 orders; slips, 54 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 420 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 195 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #176 14s. Probable attendance:'boxes, 224 paid and 3 orders; stage, 75 paid; pit, 279 paid and 5 orders; slips, 60 paid and 1 orders; pidgeon holes, 3 paid; first gallery, 444 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 193 paid. [Both Daily Journal and Rich's Register call this the 35th performance; see 11 March.

Event Comment: Receipts: #177 18s. ProDable attendance: boxes, 230 paid and 5 orders; stage, 67 paid; Pit, 286 paid and 8 orders; slips, 58 paid and 7 orders; Pidgeon holes, 5 paid; first gallery, 440 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 199 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #194 13s. Probable attendance: boxes, 232 paid and 6 orders; stage, 98 paid; pit, 301 paid and 1 order; slips, 59 paid and 6 orders; pidgeon holes, 2 paid; first gallery, 438 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 196 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #184 15s. Probable attendance: boxes, 231 paid and 2 orders; stage, 74 paid; pit, 298 paid and 2 orders; slips, 69 paid; pidgeon holes, 6 paid; first gallery, 445 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 201 paid

Event Comment: The last Time of performing this Season. [This was Mrs Hartley's last appearance on the tstage.] Account-Book, 29 May: Paid Foulis for writing Music #101 17s.; 31 May: Received of Their Majesties for this Season #60, of Prince of Wales #30; 16 June: Paid Pattinson, tallow chandler, #332 8s. Paid Cooper, printer, #335 11s. Paid Harris, manager, #500. Paid Enderby, oil merchant, #1,061 17s. Paid Hull, salary as Acting Manager #150. Paid Mrs Hartley in lieu of a Benefit #105; 6 July: Received Stage Forfeits this season #42 3s. 6d. Receipts: #63 8s. (61.14.6; 1.13.6)

Event Comment: CCross: (Pam: publish'd). Play dislik'd. Hiss'd much. [The pamphlet referred to was "Mr Garrick's Conduct as Manager of TRDL considered in a Letter Addressed to him," by E. F. 18 Oct.: As a manager, Sir, it is your business not only to prepare the Evening's Entertainment, but to prepare it in the best manner you are able; and the manager who does otherwise uses his customers ill." The burden of the author's complaints was: (1) the theatre has been operating for a month yet Garrick has appeared in only one character; (2) that he should buy himself off with speaking a prologue only, then sell that to the public at 6d. shows vanity, avarice, and lack of managerial responsibility; (3) that plays such as Albumazar (simple and poorly cast) and Scornful Lady, (with irreligious and atheistical parts) should not have been passed off on the public, whose expectations were raised high at the thought of Garrick's management. Macklin even had to apologize to the audience as he played the part of Sir Roger in the latter play. E. F. closed by urging: "Get up the best of our English Tragedies and Comedies; encourage the rising Wits and be under no apprehesion of the want of success." If you use common sense in casting your actors, as your former managers did (with all their other faults) in casting you, you will not yourself have to play every night. Above all remember your responsibility to the public.] Receipts: #100 (Cross); #127 4s. 6d. (Powel)