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Event Comment: Paid Fisher for tunes and use of the organ in Love in the City #1 (Account Book). Could not get into the Pit, 2s. Gallery or the slips at Covent Garden (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #228 19s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Event Comment: Author's Night. House charges #64 4s.[Profits to Colman #151 14s.] Paid B. Johnson's Head bill #3 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #215 18s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: III: New Comic Dance-Duquesney, Mrs King; End: The Lilliputian Camp, as17670227

Event Comment: Paid Bickerstaff on acct as per draft #12 12s. (Account Book). Receipts: #210 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Event Comment: Paid printer's bill #9 6s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #215 19s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Cunning Man

Dance: End: The Lilliputian Camp, as17670227

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid Joseph Stevenson, Music Porter, as per bill #1 8s. (Account Book). Receipts: #252 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: II: The Female Archer, as17661215

Event Comment: [R+Rich's Register lists The English Merchant.] Paid Blandford (tallow chandler) #49 8s. 10d. Paid George Garrick for use of the managers #15 15s.; Paid French on account #20; Advanced to Granier on note #4 2s. 10d.; to Keen on note #4 4s. Rec'd stopages 16s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Sylas Neville (Neville MS Diary): With difficulty got into the Pit at Drury Lane, where I stood at the side so jambed up that I could not read the newspaper I carried: But I saw the play very well. It was Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, with the Farce of the Devil to Pay. Duke by Havard, Cacafago by Love, very well. Copper Capt. by Palmer, pretty well. Old woman pretty well by Mrs Baddeley, Astifania by Mrs Pritchard excellently, tho she is too old for the first part of this character. Leon inimitably by Garrick. I think he shows a good deal of Abel drugger, [both published and unpublished portions of the Neville Diary.] Receipts: #261 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: BB. Johnson's Head bill #3 14s. 4d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #201 4s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Event Comment: Paid Cooper (printer) on account #21 (Account Book). Receipts: #187 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Event Comment: Paid chorus singers 2 nights (this excluded) #4 16s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #169 4s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. [See 31 Jan. for payments made to eleven young persons for performing 8 nights in Fairy Favour.] Receipts: #168 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Event Comment: Paid Mr Burney Jr 52 day's salary #10 16s. 9d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #205 5s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: II: The Lilliputian Camp, as17670227

Event Comment: By Desire. Rec'd from Condell for Fruit Rent #20. Paid Wilford for 30 nights renters money #300 (Account Book). Receipts: #195 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Rec'd stopages 16s. 6d. Paid salary list 4 days at #73 10s. 8d. per diem, #294 2s. 8d.; Chorus singers 1 night #2 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #174 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: II: The Lilliputian Camp, as17670227

Event Comment: Paid Cooper (printer) #16 4s. (Account Book). Receipts: #206 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Receipts: #242 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End: The Lilliputian Camp, as17670227

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Beard's Night. Charges. #64 5s., Balance to Beard #198 12s. (Account Book). Got but a bad place in the 2s. Gallery at Covent Garden where I saw Love in a Village with the Citizen...At the end of Act 2, we had the dance of the Female Archer, by Mad LaRiviere, Miss Wilford, &c. with Miss Pope of the other House. Ought to be particularly encouraged because she is virtuous. Mr Elliot has sold her to Cumberland (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #262 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: II: The Female Archer, as17661215

Event Comment: Paid Mr Williams 2 nights in Musical Lady #1 1s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #162 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: II: A New Pantomime Dance call'd The Millers and the Colliers-Grimaldi, Duquesney, Mons Rolle, Mrs King, Miss Tetley; End: The Lilliputian Camp, as17670227

Event Comment: Paid Beard the balance of #198 12s. due him for the 16th inst. (Account Book). Receipts: #183 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Event Comment: Paid Mr Carter (scowerer) 2 bills #15 19s. 6d. Printer's bill 2 weeks #17 4s. 6d.; Chorus 2 nights #4 11s. Rec'd stopages 16s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #262 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Cunning Man

Event Comment: Rec'd of Bickerstaff for a fair copy for the prompter for Love in the City #1 1s. Paid Bickerstaff the balance of his night 24 Feb., #6 6s. (Account Book). Receipts: #224 17s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Part of pit laid into boxes. House charges #61 4s. [Profit to Mrs Pritchard #68 8s.] Lent to Mr Johnston, Prompter, by order #2 2s.; Paid to James Aickin on his note #40; Paid Poor's rate (1!2 year for St Martin's) #20 4s.; Salary list #294 2s. 8d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #129 12s. (Treasurer's Book). Went to see Macbeth for Mrs Pritchard's Benefit. Got a good seat in the Pit, which was not full for half an hour after I went, tho part of it was laid into the boxes. Read the Public Advertiser of Today' and part of London Chronicle before the play began...Dance of the Furies in the 4th Act, and end of the Play (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: End: The Vintage, as17661011

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years. Places (with Tickets) to be had of Mr Sarjant at the stage Door. [See 31 Jan. 1760.] Charges: #68 9s. Profit to Woodward of #123 3s. 6d. plus #61 income from tickets (Box 244) (Account Book). [The House launched the benefit season with a profitable balance of #9616 5s. 5d. on the books.] Receipts: #191 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Pit and Boxes will be laid together, where servants will be admitted to keep places. Ladies desired to send servants by 3 o'clock. Rec'd from Mr Stevens 1 yrs. rent due at Xmas #10; Paid Locke (hatter) for Garrick #1 4s. 6d.; Re-paid Garrick the cash advanced by Monet for Guidetti #21; Paid B. Johnson's Head bill #3 17s. 11d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #98 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Dance: End: The Jealous Peasant, as17661111

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Tickets and Places to be taken of Mr Smith at his house in Beaufort Buildings, Strand; and of Mr Sarjant at the stage-door of the Theatre. Charges: #70 19s. 6d. [Profit to Smith #79 10s. 6d. plus #136 16s. from tickets (Box 388; Pit 198; Gallery 101).] Receipts: #150 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: III: The Village Romps, as17661008; End: The Female Archer, as17661215

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Pit and Boxes laid together. House charges #64 17s.[Profit to Mrs Yates #54 10s. 6d.] Tragedy by Glover. Never acted. Rec'd from Mr Blagden one year [rent] to Xmas last #3 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #119 7s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medea

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: End: A Comic Dance-Duquesney, Mrs King