Event Comment: Benefit for Hurst and Burton. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Public Advertiser, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Hurst at his house, No. 374, Strand; of Burton, Duke's-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #209 15s. (42.11.0: 11.16.6; 0.2.6; tickets: 155.5.0) (charge: #65 3s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jackson. Mainpiece [1st time in London; T 5, by John Jackson, 1st acted at Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 13 Jan. 1777, as Gerilda. Larpent MS 448, which also lists the following unassigned parts: Halard, Bragances, Setoc, Bruno, Grindal, Clara. Authors of Prologue and Epilogue unknown]. [Robinson, who is identified in Morning Chronicle, 6 May, was from the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.] Account-Book, 4 May: Paid Hull in lieu of a Benefit #100. Public Advertiser, 18 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jackson, Great Piazza, Covent Garden. Receipts: #188 15s. 6d. (99.19.6; tickets: 88.16.0) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wright, Carpenter & Butler. Public Advertiser, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Carpenter at Sutton's, No. 11, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden; of Butler, next Door to the Theatre. Receipts: #283 15s. 6d. (42.2.0; 7.2.6; 0.2.0; tickets: 234.9.0) (charge: #74 14s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild, prompter. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 6 Jan. 1773]. End of mainpiece: The Procession from Westminster Abbey Coronation. Public Advertiser, 8 May: Tickets to be had of Wild at his house, No. 20, Crown-court, Bow-street. Receipts: #224 18s. (146.1; tickets: 78.17) [charge: #72 6s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield and Mrs Pitt. [2nd piece in place of The Ephesian Matron, announced on playbill of 12 May.] Public Advertiser, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 14, Crown-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #144 15s. [51.14; tickets: 93.1) [charge: #74 7s.)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Altered from [The Artful Wife, by William? Taverner. [1st time; C 3, by George Colman elder. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of plot in London Chronicle, 20 May. Public Advertiser, 19 May, notes that the Prologue was the same as that spoken on 15 May 1777. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Servants to keep Places are to be at the door in Suffolk-street by Five o'clock. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. On account of the Performers employed at other Theatres the second Night of Representation cannot be till Thursday, the 21st inst. [On this night, the 18th, Baddeley's name is in the playbills at both dl and hay.

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, Evans & Curteen, box-keepers. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Public Advertiser, 12 May: Tickets to be had of Condell, Cross-court, Duke's-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden; of Evans at Bromfield's, Trunk-maker, No. 118, Long-acre; of Curteen, No. 11, Temple-lane, White-friars. Receipts: #259 5s. (53.3; tickets: 206.2) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson, pit office-keeper. Public Advertiser, 16 May: Tickets to be had of Dickinson, No. 5, Wild-court, Wild-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #276 13s. (48.16; 9.0; 0.14; tickets: 218.3) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for the New General Lying-in-Hospital, in Store-street, Tottenham-Court-Road. Tickets delivered for Venice Preserv'd will be taken. Receipts: #149 1s. 6d. (66.4.6; tickets: 82.17.0) (charge: #115)

Event Comment: Benefit for Davies, bookseller, and Mrs Davies, who formerly belonged to this Theatre, and who have sustained misfortunes in trade. Public Advertiser, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Davies, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #198 9s. 6d. (69.14.0; 17.10.0; 0.13.6; tickets: 110.12.0) (charge: #64 4s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Parsons. Public Advertiser, 18 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Parsons, No. 60, Stanhope-street, Clare-Market

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Harper. Tickets delivered for The Nabob and The Provoked Husband will be admitted. Afterpiece: By Permission of the Author. Public Advertiser, 24 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Miss Harper at Guy's, Catherine-street, Strand

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. [Afterpiece: Prologue by David Garrick.] Public Advertiser, 25 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister at Starzaker's, Upper End of Bow-street, Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Public Advertiser, 29 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, Suffolk-street

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Morning Chronicle, 5 Sept.: Tickets to be had of Palmer at his house, Bow-street, Bloomsbury. Afterpiece: Never performed here

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera. The music entirely new by Sacchini. With entire new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations both for the Opera and Dances. Pit 10s. 6d. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s. By Their Majesties' Command, no person can be admitted behind the Scenes. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [see 5 June 1779]. To prevent Inconvenience to the Nobility and Gentry in getting to their Carriages they are respectfully intreated to give positive orders to their Servants to set down and take up with their Horses Heads towards Pall-mall. The door in Market Lane for Chairs only. Public Advertiser, 31 Oct.: To prevent mistakes Ladies who have not honoured the Director with the names of the Subscribers to their Boxes are particularly requested to send them as early as possible to Johnson, at the Office of the Theatre, in order to [permit] their Tickets being engraved. The Renters' Shares proposed to be granted on this Theatre are now made out, and particulars prepared, at Messrs Wallis and Parker's, Norfolk-street, Strand, who are impowered by the Proprietors to dispose in single Shares of those which remain unsubscribed for. The annual Subscriptions are receiving by Johnson at the Office of the Theatre in Union-court, Haymarket

Event Comment: Benefit for the City of London Lying-in Hospital. [Author of Prologue unknown.] Paid Heele for Insurance #125 4s. Public Advertiser, 5 Dec.: Tickets to be had at the Hospital, Old Street Road. Receipts: #281 16s. (91.10; 9.9; 0.1; tickets: 180.16) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Younge. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 23 Apr. 1773]. Public Advertiser, 13 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Younge at Thelwall's, King-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #217 16s. 6d. (83.16.0; 17.14.6; 9.1.0; tickets: 107.5.0) (charge: #64 15s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 8 June 1776]. Public Advertiser, 6 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Henderson, Buckingham-street, York Buildings. [Henderson's 1st appearance as King Lear was at Bath, 20 Feb. 1773.] Receipts: #259 9s. (162.9.0; 16.12.6; 0.13.6; tickets: 79.14.0) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Crawford. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Crawford, No.3, Adam-street, Adelphi

Event Comment: Benefit for Vernon. Mainpiece: With a Grand Procession, as 23 Dec. 1778. [Miss Pinto was from the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.] Public Advertiser, 15 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Vernon at Mahon's, the corner of Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #217 1s. 6d. (121.8.0; 21.11.0; 0.19.6; tickets: 73.3.0) (charge: #73 3s. 6d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Afterpiece: With Alterations. Not acted these 50 years [acted 31 Dec. 1739]. Public Advertiser, 6 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Dodd at his house, New Ormond-street. Receipts: #272 4s. 6d. (117.4.0; 13.19.0; 2.1.6; tickets: 139.0.0) (charge: #66 15s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. Public Advertiser, 13 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Wroughton at his house, No. 18, Broad-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by James Cobb, based on La Fausse Suivante; ou, Le Fourbe Puni, by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux. Prologue by the author (Knapp, 117). Larpent MS 476; not published. In 1780 this was acted at the hay as The Female Captain]. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Public Advertiser, 15 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #202 10s. (54.14; 17.6; 1.12; tickets: 128.18) (charge: #65 17s. 2d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Webster. Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Webster, No. 35, Upper Charlotte-street, Rathbone-place. Receipts: #203 7s. (73.12; 15.13; 1.15; tickets: 112.7) (charge: #105)