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Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Satchell. Receipts: #163 12s. (85/5; tickets:78/7) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: In Act v of mainpiece a Dance of Foresters by Harris and others

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece When Phoebus the Tops of the Hills does adorn by Bannister and Brett

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. [Mainpiece in place of Isabella, announced on playbill of 17 May.] Receipts: #292 (146/5/0; 10/12/6; 0/12/6; tickets: 134/10/0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild. 1st piece: As altered in 3 Acts by Garrick. 3rd piece [1st time; MF 2, by Leonard Macnally. MS: Larpent 623; not published]: The Music compiled from the most eminent Composers. Receipts: #304 1s. 6d. (222/9/6; tickets: 81/12/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Butler. Tickets delivered for False Delicacy will be taken. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #239 3s. 6d. (21/13/0; 15/0/0; 0/11/6; tickets: 201/19/0) (charge: #108 5s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Master Butler (Scholar of Miller); End of mainpiece The Butterfly, as17830426

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hunter. Tom Thumb [announced on playbill of 19 May] is unavoidably obliged to be changed, on account of Mrs Kennedy's Indisposition. Receipts: #170 17s. 6d. (77/15/6; tickets: 93/2/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: As17830512

Event Comment: Benefit for Chaplin, Alfred, Walker & Mrs Pulley. Tickets delivered for The Gamesters will be taken. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #225 2s. (16/1; 7/11; 0/15; tickets: 200/15) (charge: #105 17s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by a Young Gentleman [unidentified] (Pupil of Walker); End of Act I of afterpiece, as17821005

Event Comment: Benefit for Booth, Egan, Stevens & the widow of the late Mr Branson. Receipts: #204 2s. (none listed; tickets: 204/2) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Dance: As17820927

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece The Huntsman's sweet Hollo!, as17830516; End of Dance ThomasDay. Goody Cramp-Bannister; Goody Rheum-Brett; Goody Twitch-Edwin

Event Comment: The Mourning Bride [announced on playbill of 21 May] cannot be performed, on account of the Indisposition of Smith. Receipts: #216 11s. (198/0/0; 17/16/0; 0/2/6; tickets not come in: 0/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of a Night

Event Comment: The last Night of Mrs Abington's performing this Season. Receipts: #169 1s. 6d. (165/7/6; 3/14/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: As17830425

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Miss Barnes, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Heard, Miss Richards, Dale, Stageldoir, Daglish, Kenny, Brigg, Master Wilson will be taken. Receipts: #211 14s. 6d. (27/5/0; 14/16/0; 0/7/6; tickets: 169/6/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17820917; End of Act iv Hornpipe by a Young Lady [unidentified] (Scholar of Brigg)

Song: End of mainpiece Tally Ho! by Miss Barnes

Event Comment: Benefit for Harris, ballet-master and Principal Dancer, and Trew. Mainpiece: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon. Receipts: #286 18s. 6d. (97/15/6; tickets: 189/3/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece Diversion a-la-Mode, as17821211, in which The Devonshire Minuet, as17821129, and variety of new Quadrilles, composed by Harris; End of Act iv, as17820925; End of mainpiece new Dance, composed by Harris, The Rival Nymphs, by Byrne, Ratchford, Harris, Mrs Ratchford, Miss Byrne, Miss Matthews

Song: As17821227, but Mrs Bannister [i.e. formerly Miss Harper (see17830129)]; omitted: Bannister

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Pemberton, Devoto, J. Shade, Newton,. Gardner, Leslie, Mrs Lewis and the Widow Collins will be taken. Receipts: #252 5s. (19/6; 10/8; 1/5; tickets: 221/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17821005

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. Receipts: #319 17s. (80/4; tickets: 239/13) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: End of mainpiece The Humours of Newmarket by Harris, Ratchford, Byrne, Miss Byrne, Miss Matthews

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Tally bo!, as17830516; End of Act IV Kate of Aberdeen by Master Bartheiemon

Event Comment: Benefit for Fearon, L'Estrange, Thompson & Guard. Receipts: #254 1s. (80/18; tickets: 173/3) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17821214

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Carleton Jun., Wilson, Hicks & Palmer Sen. Receipts: #267 3s (14/17; 7/6; 0/14; tickets: 244/6) (charge: #105 8s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17830505

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Darley, Jones, Painter, Besford, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Sharpe, the Widow of the late Dr Arne, and Mrs Dalrymple will be admitted. Tickets delivered for The Maid of the Mill will be taken. [Afterpiece in place of THE Devil upon Two Sticks, announced on playbill of 27 May.] Receipts: #286 14s. 6d.(93/6/6; 3/1/0; tickets: 190/7/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day

Dance: End of mainpiece The Fingalian; or, The Female Frolic by Miss Besford and others

Event Comment: Benefit for Portal, Shade, Enoe & the Widow of the late Carleton Sen. Receipts: #264 (39/10/0; 17/2/6; 0/7/6; tickets: 207/0/0) (charge: #107 12s. 2d)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: As17821214

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Jackson, Prosser, Helme, Lloyd, Real, Rowson, R. Ledger, Mrs Hamilton, Mrs Lampe, and the Performers in the Orchestra will be admitted this Evening. Receipts: #276 12s. 6d. (83/7/0; 2/7/6; tickets: 190/18/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: End of mainpiece Rural Merriment by Jackson and Mrs Ratchford; End of mainpiece Hornpipe by Prosser

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron & Morris. Receipts: #297 4s. 6d. (18/13/0; 5/14/6; 0/4/0; tickets: 272/13/0) (charge: #106)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece The Devonshire Minuet, as17821003

Event Comment: Benefit for Green and Ansell, box-keepers. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #347 3s. 6d. (51/2/6; tickets: 296/1/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End of mainpiece The Rival Nymphs, as17830524

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Lyon, Gibson, Finney, Blandy, Barthrope, Aberdein will be taken. Receipts: #150 10s. (20/8; 6/11; 0/0; tickets: 123/11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece The Devonshire Minuet, as17821003; End of mainpiece Hornpipe by Mills

Event Comment: Benefit for T. Ansell, Pilford, Marks & Furkins. Tickets delivered by Clarridge, Doe, Roberts, Walker, Cox, Sarjent, Seymour, Sloper, Abbot, Akrey [Account-Book adds Rolles] will be admitted this Evening. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. [This was Yates's last appearance on the stage in London; he subsequently acted in Edinburgh in March, 1785. Afterpiece in place of The Country Mad-Cap, announced on playbill of 30 May.] Receipts: #255 3s. 6d. (20/5/0; 0/15/6; tickets: 234/3/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysterious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle As17820930 but Jeremy W

Dance: As17821231

Event Comment: Benefit for Curteen, Condell, and Colborne, box-keepers. [In mainpiece Booth doubled Rosencraus and the 1st Gravedigger.] Receipts: #227 14s. 6d. (72/7/6; tickets: 155/7/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: As17830530

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Tally ho.', as17830516

Event Comment: Benefit for Beeston, Brereton, Longley & Colley. Tickets delivered by Robson, Stephenson, Robinson, Varley, Smallwood, Jennings, Halliburton, Shuter, Pilbrow, Turtle, Wm. Ansell will be admitted this Evening. Receipts: #263 9s. (24/14; 1/18; tickets: 236/17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17821231; End of mainpiece Diversion a-la-Mode, as n Dec. 1782, in which The Devonshire Minuet, as17821129

Event Comment: The last Time of the Company's performing this Season. [Mainpiece acted for the 22nd time this season. The playbill states, "for the 23rd Time"; on the Kemble playbill this has been corrected in MS to 22nd. Genest, VI, 262, says that this play was also acted on both 3 and 4 June. But on those nights the theatre was dark.] Receipts: #270 11s. (260/7; 10/4; after-money not listed). Account-Book, 5 June: Paid Mrs Siddons a Present from the Proprietors #100; 6 June: Paid 100 Renters #20 4s. apiece; 23 June: Received of Their Majesties #156

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice