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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: #130 18s. Paid John Rich #500

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

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: #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: #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: #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: #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

Event Comment: Benefit for Dyer. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. No building on stage. Receipts: #75 5s., in cash, plus #143 4s. from tickets (Boxes 238; Pit 416; Gallery 213). Total income #218 8s. Charges #64 5s. Paid Besworth the porter 1 week's salary 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: III: Fingalian Dance-Miss Hilliard; End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Dyer, Miss Helm, Mrs Viviez, Mrs Leppie. Tickets delvier'd out by Redman, Chapman, and others will be taken. Receipts #23 14s. 6d. plus 1!2 value of tickets. @Tickets Mrs Dyer Box 8@Pit 35@Gallery 29@Value #10 3s.@1!2 Value #5 1s. 6d.@Tickets Miss Helm Box 3@Pit 20 Gallery 20@Value #7 5s.@1!2 Value #3 12s. 6d.@Tickets Mrs Viviez Box 15@Pit 42@Gallery 71@Value #17 3s.@1!2 Value #8 11s. 6d.@Tickets Mrs Leppie Box 6@Pit 38@Gallery 34@Value #10 12s.@1!2 Value #5 6s.@Tickets Redman Box -@Pit 40@Gallery 44@Value #9 16s.@1!2 Value #4 18s.@Tickets Chapman Box 52@Pit 150@Gallery 79@Value 43 8s.@1!2 Value #21 14s.@Tickets Jarvis Box 3@Pit 77@Gallery 55@Value #18 8s.@1!2 Value #9 14s.@Tickets Cockayne Box 2@Pit 19@Gallery 7@Value #4 1s.@1!2 Value #2 6d.@Tickets Dumay Box 17@Pit 31@Gallery 36@Value #12 10s.@1!2 Value #6 5s.@Tickets Mrs Granier Box -@Pit 18@Gallery 16@Value #4 6s.@1!2 Value #2 3s.@Tickets Miss Davis Box 23@Pit 27@Gallery 13@Value #11 2s.@1!2 Value #5 11s. (Gratis)@Tickets Paddock Box 1@Pit 24@Gallery 26@Value #6 9s.@1!2 Value #3 4s. 6d.@Tickets Hitchcock Box 17@Pit 42@Gallery 3@Value #10 17s.@1!2 Value #5 8s. 6d. (Gratis)@Total Box 147@Pit 573@Gallery 433@Value #166@1!2 Value #83 Money #23 14s. 6d.@#106 14s. 6d. #9 12s.; Paid Blackmore a bill for the theatre, #71 12s. 6d.; A Bill for Rich #30 0s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: Fingalian Dance-Miss Hilliard; End: The Threshers-Leppie, Granier, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for Ryan. Tickets delivered out for The Fop's Fortune will be taken. Receipts: #66 7s. 6d. in cash, plus #100 17s. from tickets (Boxes 249; Pit 190; Gallery 101). Total income #167 4s. 6d. Charges #64 5s. Paid Meares a bill for 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Receipts: #115 18s. 6d. Present Prince of Wales at #5 5s., with Duke of York; Princess of Wales at #5 5s., with Lady Augusta, Lady Caroline, Lady Louisa. Paid Woodfall for printing #46 18s. 6d. and another printing bill #31 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Event Comment: Benefit for Ballard, Treasurer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years [see 20 Oct. 1759]. Receipts: #37 11s. 6d. plus #205 4s. from tickets (Boxes 260; Pit 830; Gallery 247). Total income #242 15s. 6d. Charges #64 5s. Paid Ledley for 8 doz. wax candles at #1 11s. per dozen, #12 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: II: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318 End: The Knife Grinders, as17600417

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilford, Ross (Pit Doorkeepers); Mislebrook, Dimmock, and Trott (Lobby Doorkeepers). Tickets delivered out by Besford, Slater, Clarke, Toten, J. Smith will be taken. Receipts: #29 8s. plus 1!2 value of tickets: @Tickets Wilford Box -@Pit 39@Gallery 45@Value #10 7s.@1!2 Value #5 3s. 6d.@Tickets Ross Box 4@Pit 153@Gallery 60@Value #29 19s.@1!2 Value #14 19s. 6d.@Tickets Mislebrook Box -@Pit 40@Gallery 128@Value #18 16s.@1!2 Value #9 8s. 6d.@Tickets Dymuck Box -@Pit 7@Gallery 41@Value #5 3s.@1!2 Value #2 11s. 6d.@Tickets Trott Box 165@Pit 40@Gallery 11@Value #48 7s.@1!2 Value #20 3s. 4d.@Tickets Besford Box -@Pit 12@Gallery 38@Value #5 12s.@1!2 Value #2 16s.@Tickets Slater Box -@Pit 56@Gallery 81@Value #16 10s.@1!2 Value #8 5s.@Tickets Clarke Box 4@Pit 33@Gallery 52@Value #11 3s.@1!2 Value #5 11s. 6d.@Tickets Toten Box -@Pit 32@Gallery 48@Value #9 12s.@1!2 Value 4 16s.@Tickets Smith Box 1@Pit 25@Gallery 29@Value #6 18s.@1!2 Value #3 9s.@Tickets S. Griffith Box -@Pit 11@Gallery 11@Value #2 18s.@1!2 Value #1 9s.@Tickets Coles Box 9@Pit 45@Gallery 80@Value #17@1!2 Value #8 10s.@Tickets Darby Box -@Pit 150@Gallery 161@Value 38 12s.@1!2 Value #19 6s.@Tickets Clingo Box -@Pit 37@Gallery 39@Value #10 9s.@1!2 Value #5 4s. 6d.@Total Box 187@Pit 681@Gallery 824@Value #231 6s.@1!2 Value #111 12s. 10d.@Money #29 8s.@Total #141 1s.@ Paid Rich on Acct #5

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: End: Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: Receipts: #23 2s. 7d. Paid Lambert 3 months salary to instant #25. Receiv'd from Condell #80 for Fruit rent this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: The Musical Entertainment of Thomas and Sally is by particular desire oblig'd to be deferr'd till tomorrow. Boxes #8 2s. 6d. Paid Hewetson 4s. for Powder to clean lace (Account Book). Receipts: #83 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: As17601013

Event Comment: Full Prices. [N.B. Winston MS 9, indicates from Rich's Register that Henry V was played this night by Royal Command. Playbill for 4 Dec. lends credence to this as it states Not Acted this season." For cast of Henry V see 18 Nov. TheAccount Book clinches the matter by listing Henry V with Dancing, and an indication that the Boxes this night held #70 5s., or some 281 people.] Present His Majesty and Attendance. House gave Yeomen of the Guards the usual gratuity of #1 1s. [Rich also paid that night #1 1s. for an Occasional Prologue for Henry V for 18 Nov. last, and #2 2s. for an occasional prologue to Thomas and Sally for 28 Nov. (Account Book).] Receipts: #210 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd out by the author of Thomas and Sally will be taken this night. [Bickerstaffe took in #85 6s. in ready money and #12 18s. from tickets (Boxes 12; Pit 18) Total #98 4s.] Paid Dibdin for singing 5 nights in Thomas and Sally and 1 night in Romeo #1 10s. (Account Book). Charges #64 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: II: As17601014