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Event Comment: Receipts: #69. Paid J. Rich as per receipt #500. [The favorable balance of the house at this point was #1508.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: TThe Dutch Skipper-Poitier Jr, as17591017

Event Comment: Receipts: #158 7s. 6d. Paid Morris (woolen draper) as per bill, #52 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Benefit for the General Lying-In Hospital, Duke Street. Receipts: #56, plus #142 6s. from tickets. Total #198 6s. Charges #84. Paid J. Rich on acct, #547 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: As17591218

Event Comment: Receipts: #164 11s. Paid Mr Kemp on acct for tin work, #21

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 18s. Paid John Rich #500

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Receipts: #184 18s. Paid Mr Kemp for lamps 13 nights from 1-13 Dec. 1759 at #1 12s. per night, #20 16s.; Ditto from 15 Dec.-5 Jan.: #25 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: HHornpipe-Miss Dawson; Country Dance-Characters in the Play; End II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: Receipts: #93 0s. 6d. [The Covent Garden Cash Book indicates the mainpiece this night to be The Conscious Lovers.] Paid Mr Martin [wardrobe keeper?] 3 months salary to Xmas 1759, #10

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover; Or, The Banish'd Cavaliers

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #76 18s. Paid Woodfall for printing to 22 Dec. 1759, #126 19s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Receipts: #167 8s. Paid Pattinson (tallow chander) 7 bills from 3 Dec. 1759-15 Jan. 1760: #114 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: As17600108

Event Comment: Receipts: #146 2s. Paid Meares #5 16s. 6d.; Monck #1 10s.; Hargreaves (smith) #13 6s. 11d.; Kemp, six nights for lamps, #9 12s. At the Bedford tonight & slept [slipt?] in at Covent Garden Mr Bettenson was at the Bedford, we were talking about the Count, a poor man that comes there slept in after the play at Drury Lane Gallery (Hailey, "Brietzcke Diary," Vol. 197, p. 69)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Receipts: #150. Paid Meares #1 6s.; Mock #1 10s.; Kemp #9 12s.; John Rich #500; Mrs Colman for a purple and silver gown #18 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Receipts: #155 2s. Miss Mowat's 2nd appearance. Paid Powell for his attendance and adjusting the Accounts for two seasons to the end of May #100

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Receipts: #147 11s. Paid Jno Rich for Mr Morris, #246 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Receipts: #124 17s. Paid Kemp for Lamps #9 12s.; Meares 13s.; Hughes & Batten (linnen drapers) #33 14s.; Nuttall as per bill #26 8s.; Luppino as per bill #30 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Receipts: #71 6s. Paid Bigner (wigmaker) a bill for #9 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Event Comment: Receipts: #296 11s. Paid Mr Sheridan a draft for #300; Sarjant on acct of his salary #5; Advanc'd Gibbs #2 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Receipts: #155 19s. Paid Lambert 3 months salary to 16th inst. #25; Advanc'd to Weller #2 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Receipts: #145 16s. Paid Luppino a bill for dancing Dresses #9 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Receipts: #163 2s. Paid Ledley for 20 doz. wax candles #31

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Receipts: #212 7s. Paid Kemp for lamps #6 8s.; Meares, 5s. I slept in at the Play Houses but did not see him [his brother George] there. I met Miss Smith going into the Gallery at Covent Garden. I think it is a fortnight tomorrow that her sister has been buried (Hailey Brietzcke Diary, p. 147)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Receipts: #128 16s. Paid Rich on account, #600

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Receipts: #207 6s. Paid Rich #50; Advanc'd to Miss White #1 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Spirit of Contradiction

Performance Comment: Actors only in bills, but edition of 1760 lists: Randal-Shuter; Steer-Gibbs; Lovewel-Clarke; Partlet-Ridout; Mrs Partlet-Mrs Ward; Harriet Partlet-Miss Mowat; Ruin-Perry; Betty-Mrs Green; Prologue-Mrs Ward.
Event Comment: Receipts: #184 7s. Paid Kemp #6 8s.; Meares 15s.; Richards (painter) a bill #5s; Mr Bedcot (wax chandler) #5; Hewetson (laceman) #65 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Spirit of Contradiction

Event Comment: Receipts: #132 14s. Paid Woodfall for printing to 26 Jan. last #47 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Spirit of Contradiction

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #149 14s. 6d. Paid Blackmore a bill #17 0s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Fair