Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jackson. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. The Characters to be dressed in the Habits of the Country. Public Advertiser, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jackson, Great Piazza, Covent Garden. Receipts: #189 14s. (87.7; tickets: 102.7) (charge: #64 10s.)

Event Comment: Tickets which have been already delivered by Miss Ambrose, Branson, and the Gentlemen of the Orchestra for Wednesday, the 30th of April, will be received this Evening. Receipts: #286 (55.12; tickets: 230.8)

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Prologue by David Garrick. Epilogue by George Colman elder (London Chronicle, 9 May). Text 1st published (unauthorized), Dublin, 1780]: With New Scenes and Dresses. "No modern theatrical piece ever met with a fuller success, nor deserved it more... The performers deserve every sort of commendation for their spirited exertion in supporting the respective characters, especially Smith, King and the incomparable Mrs Abington" (Gazetteer, 9 May). "To my great astonishment there were more parts performed admirably in The School for Scandal than I almost ever saw in any play. Mrs Abington was equal to the first of her profession, Yates (the husband), Parsons, Miss Pope, and Palmer, all shone. It seemed a marvellous resurrection of the stage. Indeed, the play had as much merit as the actors. I have seen no comedy that comes near it since The Provoked Husband" (Walpole [13 July 1777], X, 82). Receipts: #224 10s. (215.12.0; 8.14.6; 0.3.6)

Event Comment: "A Gentleman who is as mad as myself about the School remark'd that the Characters upon the Stage at the falling of the Screen stand too long before they speak-I thought so too the first Night-he said it was the same on the 2d & was remark'd by others-tho they should be astonish'd & a little petrify'd, yet it may be carry'd to too great a length" (David Garrick to R. B. Sheridan, 12 May 1777, in The Letters of David Garrick, ed. D. M. Little and G. M. Kahrl, 1963, III, 1163). Receipts: #195 13s. (184.7; 10.19; 0.7)

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Rudd, Ledger, Stevens, Mountford, Mrs Heard, Mrs Morris and Miss Bassan [Account-Book adds: Thompson, Jones, Bates] will be taken this Evening. Miss Brown being ill, Lionel and Clarissa [announced on playbill of 8 May] is obliged to be set aside. Receipts: #158 1s. (40.4; 1.9; tickets: -116.8)

Event Comment: Benefit for Peile. [In the playbill his part is specified.] Public Advertiser, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Peile at his House, North-street, Westminster. Receipts: #184 7s. 6d. (69.6.6; tickets: 115.1.0) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Author's ballance for 1 Night of the Trip to Scarborough & 4 Nights for the School for Scandal #741 0s. 6d. Receipts: #257 7s. 6d. (251.16.0; 5.0.0; 0.11.6)

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #164 4s. (163.11.6; 0.-0.12.6)

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitefield and Wewitzer. Mainpiece: Written by the late Hugh Kelly, Esq., Never acted there. Public Advertiser, 26 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Whitefield, Crown-court, Bow-street; of Wewitzer. Great Hart-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #137 4s. 6d. (55.14.6; tickets: 81.10.0) (charge: #85 12s. 6d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pitt, Booth & L'Estrange. Morning Chronicle, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Pitt, James-street; of Booth, No. 35, Brownlow-street, Long-acre; of L'Estrange, Bolton-street, Long-acre. Tickets delivered for Elfrida will be taken. Receipts: #161 15s. 6d. (45.8.6; tickets: 116.7.0) (charge: #91 10s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Grist, Messink & Blurton. Tickets delivered by Follett will be taken. Receipts: #201 14s. (38.12; 8.14; 0.0; tickets: 154.8) (charge: #65 6s. 6d.)

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Cushing, Stoppelaer, Walters, Potter. Mrs Sharpe, Mrs Warneck will be taken this Evening. Receipts: #168 17s. (50.15; 1.12; tickets: 116.10)

Event Comment: Benefit for Sarjant, box-book keeper. Tickets delivered for Monday the 12th will be received. Receipts: #253 17s. (67.16; tickets: 186.1) (charge: #84)

Event Comment: Benefit for Dumay, Harris & Holloway. Public Advertiser, 16 May: Tickets to be had of Dumay at Sandhill, behind the Foundling Hospital; of Harris, No. 12, Duke's-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden; of Holloway, Great Maddox-street, Hanover-square. Receipts: #263 15s. (69.2; tickets: 194.13) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #273 1s. (269.1.0; 3.7.6; 0.12.6)

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, Evans & Curteen, box-keepers. Receipts: #295 4s. 6d. (68.8.6; tickets: 226.16.0) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for Green and Ansell, box-keepers. Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Green, the corner of Norris-street, Hay-market; of Ansell, Davies-street, Berkley-square. Receipts: #329 17s. (48.15; tickets: 281.2) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for Thomas Ansell, Pilfold, Woolley, Symmonds Furkins & Roberts. Tickets delivered by Clarridge, Doe, Wells, Longley, Francis, Brandon, Walker, Varley will be taken this Night. Receipts: #278 11s. 6d. (21.8.6; 0.6.0; tickets: 256.17.0) (charge: none listed)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miller, Shuter, Robson, Colley & Stephenson. Tickets delivered by Robinson, Brereton, William Ansell, Miller (constable), Smallwood and Halliburton will be taken this Night. Tickets delivered by Morris will likewise be received. Receipts: #210 18s. 6d. (32.8.0; 0.13.6; tickets: 177.17.0) (charge: none listed)

Event Comment: The last time of the Company's performing this Season. Account-Book, 2 June: Received for Stage Forfeits this Season #12 14s. 8d.; 5 June: Received of Their Majesties for this Season #80. Receipts: #209 5s. 6d. (208.15.0; 0.10.6)

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson, 1st gallery office-keeper. Afterpiece [F 2, by Edward Thompson, 1st acted at Richmond, 1 Aug. 1776; not published; Prologue probably by the author]: Never performed there. Public Advertiser, 17 May: Tickets to be had of Dickinson, No. 5, Wild-court, Wild-street, near Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #276 17s. (21.14; 7.10; 0.0; tickets: 247.13) (charge: #84)

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for the Widow and Children of the late Hugh? Kelly. Tickets delivered for a Comedy, May 28th, will be admitted. Morning Chronicle, 10 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kelly, No. 3, Racquet Court, Fleet-street. Receipts: #108 -16s. (52.1; tickets: 56.15) (charge: #52 1s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson, Carleton Sen. & Walton. Tickets delivered by Page, Barthrope and Whittey will be admitted. Receipts: #235 4s. (20.1; 3.18; 0.0; tickets: 211.5) (charge: #84)

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Silvester, Kaygill & Wilson. Receipts: #200 9s. 6d. (12.11.0; 3.13.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 184.5.0) (charge: #84)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Robinson & Cameron. Tickets delivered by Hodges and Dale will be taken. Receipts: #224 9s. (11.5; 2.10; 0.0; tickets: 210.14) (charge: #84)