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Event Comment: Benefit for Messrs Fawcett and Hartry. Paid salary list #520 7s. 6d.; Recv'd from Sinking Fund #334 10s.; Stopages #17 5s. (Treasurer's Book). On Monday a New Comedy, Never performed, called The Maid of Kent, for the Benefit of Waldron. Receipts: #230 8s. 6d. Charges: #65 14s. Profits to Hartry and Fawcett: #149 14s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Entertainment: V: A Dissertation upon Macaronies-Baddeley

Event Comment: Benefit for Jones, Walker, Mrs Simson and Mrs Cross. Paid tallow chandler's 9th Bill #34 12s. 9d. (Treasurer's Book). [The pantomime charges of #10 10s. were deducted by order of the managers according to a marginal note in the Treasurer's Book, so actual charges were only #64 4s.] Receipts: #175 14s. 6d. Charges: #74 14s. Profits to Jones, Walker, Mrs Simson and Mrs Cross: #100 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Ballet: II: The Drunken Peasant. As17730517, but Drunken Peasant-Phillips

Event Comment: House (Hopkins Diary). Afterpiece: By Desire and for last time this season. Paid salary list #520 7s. 6d.; Rec'd stopages #17 9s. 6d (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #215 8s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17721023

Monologue: 1773 5 22 Between Play and Farce: A Favourite Musical Interlude, The Recruiting Serjeant. As 13 May

Event Comment: Last time of performing this season. Rec'd from Condell in full for Fruit rent this season #20. Paid Besford for making properties as per bill #3 17s. (Account Book). Receipts: #121 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: Louisa Dudley first time Miss Hopkins very well receiv'd (Hopkins Diary). Mrs Smith being hoarse, the Wedding Ring deferr'd. Paid Miss Berkley on note 25 Aug. #2 2s.; Mrs Sykes for women's Cloaths #21. Receipts: #163 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Raban (coal merchant) #63 17s. Receipts: #153 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of their Majesties. Present their Majesties. Gave Yeomen of Guards #2 2s. Paid Pattinson (tallow candler) #39 16s. Receipts: #220 15s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: II: The Irish Lilt-, as17731005, but Miss _Twist, Miss Valois; End: +New Dance, as17731021

Event Comment: The Deserter is oblig'd to be deferr'd. Paid Properties 19s. 3d.; Housekeeper's Bill #4 19s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #224 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Cast
Role: Cockswain Actor: Ackman
Role: Hatchway Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Cast
Role: Forge Actor: Ackman
Event Comment: Both pieces By Command. Paid 2 extra flutes 3 nights (this incl.) #1 10s. Receipts. #244 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Ackman

Dance: II: The Irish Fair, as17730918

Event Comment: After this night the Fair Quaker will be laid aside for some time. Paid Chorus 2 nights (this incl.) #4 1s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #156 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Cast
Role: Cockswain Actor: Ackman
Role: Hatchway Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Ackman
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid chorus 2 nights (this incl.) #4 1s. Receipts: #140 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Ackman
Event Comment: Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre. Paid Pattinson (tallow chandler) #35 10s., and Evans for Spermecetti candles #14 8s. Receipts: #143 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Achilles in Petticoats

Event Comment: Benefit for the City of London Lying-In Hospital, Corner of the City Road in Old Street. Tickets deliver'd for the Clandestine Marriage, and the 22nd instant will be taken. Charges: #81 5s. Profit to Hospital #23 6s., plus #111 14s. from tickets (Box 293; Pit 171; Gallery 128). Paid Palmer (wax chandler) #144 8s. Receipts: #104 11s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: III: The Old Ground Young, as17731208

Event Comment: By Command. 6th time. Paid for 2 extra flutes (16th inst. incl.) #1 10s. Receipts: #249 15s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Jasper Actor: Ackman
Event Comment: Author's 3rd Night. [See 21 Jan.] Paid Widow Hunter as usual #2 2s. Receipts: #174 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. The eighth night of the New Pantomime of the Sylphs will be on Thursday. Gave Porters of the several Inns of Court their Christmas Box #3 12s. 6d. Paid John Corker and Joseph Stephenson each 10s. as per certificate from Sir John Fielding (Account Book). Receipts: #183 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Event Comment: By Command. 7th time. Paid a Bill for Cotton #2 6s. 8d. Receipts: #255 18s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Cast
Role: Russett Actor: Bannister
Role: Soldiers Actor: Ackman, Fawcett, Kear, Courtney
Event Comment: Cash advanc'd Clarke as per bond #400. Paid Richards (scene painter) as per Bill #190. Receipts. #230 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid extra Flutes and Guitars, 3 nights (22nd inst. incl.) #2. Receipts: #242 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Cast
Role: Calippus Actor: J. Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Ackman
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. The Christmas Tale deferr'd Weston ill. Paid Xmas Box to sundrys as per acct #17 8s.; Chorus 3 nights (This incl.) #5 11s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #125 12s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: Claudio Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Ackman

Dance: III: The Sailors Revels, as17730928

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Noble (upholsterer) #52 5s.; Patrick (tinman) #44 11s.; Halford (leather gilder) #16 10s. Receipts: #219 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Charges #76 17s. Profit to Mrs Mattocks #84 5s., plus #69 15s. from tickets (Box 279) Paid one year's Assurance on #5,000 in the Royal Exchange Office to 31 March 1775 #12 10s. Receipts: #161 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: II: The Corsican Sailors, as17731013; End Opera: The Highland Reel, as17731112

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Charges #76 6d. Profit to Clarke #40 19s. 6d., plus #110 2s. from tickets (Box 228; Pit 276; Gallery 117). Paid Hewetson & Lonsdale (lacemen) #45 8s., Hughes (linnen draper) #18 14s.; and Hughes & Bates (linnen drapers) #20 3s. Receipts: #117. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17731005

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Shropshire for brushes #3 12s., and Pattinson (tallow chandler) #16 17s. Receipts: #110 14s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Business

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry, who humbly requests those ladies and gentlemen who have taken places in the Pit, will be pleased to come early to prevent confusion in getting to their seats. Tickets deliver'd for Thursday March 24, will be taken. Mainpiece: Not acted these 16 years. [See 8 Dec. 1757.] [Hopkins MS Notes identifies Ismena as Mrs I. Barry.] Pit and boxes laid together. Paid Properties #1 15s. 2d. Housekeeper's bill #6 10s. 6d.; 1 yrs Watch for St Martin's to 14 Feb. last #10 16s. 9d. Receipts: #273 13s. Charges: #65 2s. Profits to Mrs Barry: #208 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Dance: V: The Irish Fair, as17730918