Event Comment: Comedy Never Acted before. All the Characters New Dress'd. No money return'd after the Curtain is up. [By Macklin. Not printed. Plot account in Kirkman, Life of Macklin. It persisted for nine nights against continual opposition (Genest, IV, 625).] Boxes #95 17s. Macklin's fifth above house charges: #31 15s. 9d. (Account Book). [See note, 2 Feb.] Receipts: #221 19s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Boxes #58 2s. 6d. Macklin's fifth came to #20 7s. (Account Book). Receipts: #164 15s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Author. Receipts #137 4s., but no separate account of moneys from Boxes. Paid for a license for Macklin's Play #2 2s. Paid Pattinson, tallow chandler #19 1s. (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Boxes #62 10s. 6d. Macklin's fifth above charges came to #25 2s. 11d. Paid for sundry clothes from Voelcher #30 10s. Paid Blackmore a Bill for Rich #29 10s. and a Bill for the Theatre from 19 April last: #84 (Account Book). [On 1 Feb. one H. F. of the Middle Temple wrote to Macklin suggesting two things to insure the success of the Married Libertine. The first was practical, "bring in a claque of friends to counteract the noise of the Scots Lords who are opposing it." The second was revisional: "The play is too long,--shorten it and give the house notice that you have so done. The scenes wherein Lady Belville is solemn, grave, complaining and moral may be much abbreviated; this will...take away that heavy, lazy and sleepy (however just) part which makes your friends languish and grow cold, and gives your enemies an opportunity to improve their rancor and malignity. This observation may be applied to every recital, narrative or description which is not absolutely necessary or descriptive,--I mean necessarily connected with the frame, contexture & execution of the drama, or something designed or painted with uncommon poetic fire and enthusiasm. Pray consider whether that serious, moral and sentimental part in the character of Angelica might not be curtailed, or entirely omitted. I would have your young captain fully employed in action without ever standing still to moralize or harangue, however sensibly and poignantly he may do it. After all this there will remain a rich and uninterrupted vein of true comic humour and lively representation in short, a well connected series and succession of business which I am convinced would keep the audience so attentive and so entirely possessed that there would be no room for languor or malice to produce any effect to your detriment." (Memoirs of Macklin [Harvard Theatre Collection, extra-illustrated edition, I, part 2, p. 414.] Receipts: #188 14s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. [Macklin's fifth above charges came to #15 15s. 8d.] Paid Rich on account #250 (Account Books). Receipts: #141 18s. 5d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: No persons to be admitted without tickets, which will be delivered this day at the Office in the Theatre. Charges paid by, and receipts gained by Messrs Smith and Stanley. Galleries opened at half past Four. Pit and Boxes at Five. Prices 10s. 6d., 5s., 3s. 6d. Oratorio to begin at 6:30 p.m. Received (Account Book): @368 tickets at 10s. 6d. #193 4s.@410 tickets at 5s. #102 10s.@435 tickets at 3s. 6d. #76 2s. 6d.@1215 persons.@Receipts: #371 16s. 6d.@Charges: #35.

Event Comment: Boxes #15 12s. 6d. Macklin's fifth came to #16 9s. Paid Woodfall's Printing Bill, commencing 22 Sept. last and ending 10 Jan. #128 11s. Paid Ledlay for 7 1!2 doz. wax candles #11 12s. 6d. Paid Pattinson, tallow chandler #14 17s. 6d. Paid Besworth for making ghost's dress for Hamlet #6 18s. Paid for a wig for Cable in Thomas and Sally 3s. 6d. (Account Book). On Saturday Evening during the play of the Married Libertine...several riots ensued, occasioned by a number of Jews assembled for that purpose in the two shilling gallery; but they were soon quelled (Public Ledger, 10 Feb.). Receipts: #143 4s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Boxes #31 17s. 6d. Macklin's fifth above charges came to #15 4s. (Account Book). Receipts: #138 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. Receipts: #121 14s. [No indication of proportion that came from boxes.] Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Event Comment: Boxes #60 17s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #182 8s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Boxes #32 2s. 6d. Mr Younger's salary advanced 1s. 8d. per day from 7 Feb. (Account Book). Receipts: #112 5s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted this Season. Boxes #30 12s. od. (Account Book). Receipts: #149 2s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these 5 years. Boxes #31 7s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #125 10s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Boxes #64 12s. 6d. Macklin's fifth above charges came to #25 11s. 7d. (Account Book). Receipts: #190 18s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: @120 tickets at 10s.120 tickets at 10s. 6d. #63@152 tickets at 5s. #38@159 tickets at 3s. 6d. #27 16s. 6d.@ 411 persons present. Receipts #108 16s.@ Paid Renters #10. (Account Book). Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Event Comment: Boxes #55 17s. 6d. Macklin's fifth above charges came to #20 15s. 6d. Paid Rich on account #421 (Account Book). Receipts: #166 17s. 5d. (Account 8ook)

Event Comment: Boxes #78 7s. 6d. Paid Mr Leverton, bricklayer, in full of a bill #30 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #216 16s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Boxes #28 6s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #109 16s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: @140 tickets at 10s.140 tickets at 10s. 6d. #73 10s.@158 tickets at 5s. #39 10s.@275 tickets at 3s. 6d. #48 2s. 6d.@573 present. Receipts: #161 2s. 6d.@ Paid 100 Renters #10 (Account Book). Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Benefit for Macklin. Receipts: #240 5s. 6d. (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: ay Desire. Dance Entertainments never performed before. Boxes #65 10s. Macklin's fifth above charges came to #22 19s. 5d. Bought from Voelcher 3 yds black Cypra for a veil for Mrs Burden 6s. 3d. (Account Book). Receipts: #177 17s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: No Persons admitted behind the Scenes. Boxes #37 (Account book). Receipts: #156 6s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. None admitted behind scenes. Boxes #44 2s. 6d. Paid Sarjant a bill for 1400 brushes #3 6s. 6d. Paid Bellamy and Settree, Silk Mercers #33 15s. Paid Hewetson, laceman, sundry Bills from June 1759: #122 4s. (Account Book). [One of these bills was for #56 10s. for Lace for His Majesty's Box.] Receipts: #172 5s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Boxes #37 15s. Paid Ledlay for 10 doz. wax candles #15. 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #156 17s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Boxes #60. Paid to Mr Forrest Sr [attorney?] of a Bill deliver'd ending Christmas last #100 (Account Book). Receipts: #180 3s. 6d. (Account Book)