Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Separate Maintenance, announced on playbill of 30 May.

Event Comment: Opera [1st time; Past 3, author unknown]. The music [to Part I] composed by Giovanni Battista? Bianchi, [to Part II by] Rauzzini, [to Part III by] Giordani. With Grand Chorusses. With new Decorations devised and painted by Novosielski, and new Dresses. The Side-boards, with a cold Collation and all sorts of Wines, at 12 o'clock. The Performance under the direction of Vestris Sen., and to conclude with a Ball. Tickets, at 2 Guineas each, are ready to be delivered at the Office in Union-court, where Boxes may be taken. No Masks will be admitted. The Doors will be opened at 9:00, and the Performance to begin at 10:00. Books of the Performance will be given out (gratis) at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 7 June: The Omaggio, or homage paid by the vassals and tenants to their Lord, is naturally calculated to give free scope to lively, and sentimental music. In the former stile Bianchi and Giardini [sic] were equally succesful; and in the latter Rauzzini was surprisingly great, both as composer and performer...Slingsby would, in our opinion, have come out with as great a share of applause as the best of them, having to go through an English dance in his own stile, but by some unaccountable accident...the music-band stopped short when he was in the very climax of his exertions. The scenes are in the rural stile, with the addition of natural trees, flowering shrubs, &c., set in the neatest order...The company did not begin to move till about four, and by five the rooms were cleared. Public Advertiser, 7 June: The Vestris' gave incontrovertible proof of the variety of their powers...They did more, they shewed what this country had never seen-the possibility of presenting to the eye a large and extensive stage filled with dancers all in motion at the same time

Event Comment: [Mainpiece: author of Prologue unknown. Epilogue by Frederick Pilon (see 10 May 1781).] Receipts: #199 14s. 6d. (198/12/6; 1/2/0)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [acted 15 May 1776]. Receipts: #123 1s. 6d. (90/1/0; 31/15/0; 1/5/6)

Event Comment: By Authority of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Stewart. Mainpiece: In its original state, as it was written by Allen Ramsay, in 1724 [recte 1725]. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2 (?)]: Taken [probably by the author] from The Students [by James Stewart. MS not in Larpent; not published]. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. 'Tis hoped that none of Stewart's friends will expect to be admitted behind the scenes, as the audience will, and not without great reason, be much displeased at any such proceedings, nor will it upon any pretence whatever be complied with. No money returned after the curtain is drawn up. Ladies are requested to send their servants by Five to keep places. Tickets to be had at Walker's, the Globe, Pall-mall; the Edinburgh and Jamaica Coffee-houses, Cornhill; the St. Andrew, Wapping; of Denham, bookseller, No. 366, Hermitage Bridge, Wapping; at the Bouncing B Printing Office, Ratcliff Highway; at Stewart's china shop, No. 201, Ratcliff Highway, and at the Theatre, where places for the boxes may be taken

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. Public Advertiser, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Brereton, No. 14, Catherine-street, Strand. 2nd piece: Not acted these 6 years [not acted since 13 May 1773]. 3rd piece: Not acted these 8 years [acted 22 Dec. I775]-Receipts: #249 17s.(84/14540/3; 0/8; tickets: 124/12)(charge: #110 7s. 10d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. Morning Herald, 12 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mattocks at his house, Charlotte-street, Rathbone-place. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [not acted since 26 Dec. 1774]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years [not acted since 22 May 1778]. Receipts: #175 3s. 6d. (151/9/6; tickets: 23/14/0) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Public Advertiser, 2 May: With Alterations (by the Author) in the 5th Act. Receipts: #121 8s. 6d. (116/4/6; 5/4/0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett and Wright. Morning Herald, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Suett at his house, No. 20, Gloucester-street, Queen's-square, Bloomsbury; of Wright at his house, No. 21, Bennett-street, Westminster. [Afterpiece: Prologue by David Garrick.] Receipts: #232 10s. (67/13/0; 30/16/6; 0/12/6; tickets: 133/8/0) (charge: #115 10s.)

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F2, by Leonard Macnally. Author of Prologue unknown.]. Public Advertiser, 14 May 1782: This Day is published Retaliation (1s.). Receipts: #121 11s. 6d. (114/14/6; 6/17/0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton, Williames & Harwood, prompter. Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Harwood, Blackmoor Street, Clare-market [others not listed]. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. [The playbill assigns the song in Act II to Williames, but a MS annotation on the Kemble playbill substitutes Du-Bellamy.] Receipts: #252 19s. (66/15; 34/7; 0/11; tickets: 151/6) (charge: #106 9s. 4d.)

Event Comment: By Desire of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Benefit for Gardel. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Gardel, No. 26, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square. 1st ballet: With entirely new Music, and a new Overture by Carter (Morning Herald, 25 May)

Event Comment: Benefit for Zuchelli, Delpini & the Miss Stageldoirs. Mainpiece: With Alterations [by Richard Brinsley Sheridan]. Afterpiece [1st time; P 2, author unknown]: The whole under the direction of Delpini and Zuchelli. The Music by the celebrated Chevalier Clough. An Historical Account of the Pantomime, with the Songs, may be had at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Zuchelli, No. 81, Hay-market; Ibid, 30 Apr.: of the Miss Stageldoirs at their house, No. 26, Crown-street, Little Russel-street, Covent-garden [Delpini not listed]. Receipts: #226 13s. (67/7; 28/12; 0/3; tickets: 130/11) (charge: #120 16s. 9d.)

Event Comment: Retaliation [announced on playbill of 13 May] is obliged to be deferred on account of Quick's and Edwin's Illness. Receipts: #182 5s. 6d. (179/18/0; 2/7/6)

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Macbeth, announced on playbill of 17 May.] Receipts: #141 7s. (136/5; 5/2)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: To conclude as 23 May. Receipts: #75 4s. 6d. (53/1/0; 21/14/0; 0/9/6)

Event Comment: play. Public Advertiser, 28 May: Several of the principal Performers being extremely ill, there was no Play Yesterday Evening, nor can there be any Performance this Night

Event Comment: play [see 27 May]

Event Comment: Benefit for Rolles, Brereton, Longley & Colley. Tickets delivered by Robson (pit door-keeper), Stephenson, Robinson, Varley, W. Ansell, Smallwood, Shuter, Pillbrow, Turtle, Haliburton, Jennings will be admitted this Evening. [Afterpiece in place of The Citizen, announced on playbill of 28 May.] The last Time of the Company's performing this Season. Receipts: #240 8s. 6d. (27/13/6; 1/14/0; tickets: 211/1/0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Portal, Carleton Sen., Shade & Enoe. [Afterpiece in place of The Flitch of Bacon, announced on playbill of 29 May.] Receipts: #204 6s. C35/5/0; 24/17/6; 0/6/6; tickets: 143/17/0) (charge: none listed)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron & Morris. [Palmer's 1st appearance as Archer was at the HAY, 17 Aug. 1779. Afterpiece in place of The Alchymist, announced on playbill of 30 May.] Receipts: #254 17s. (36/2; 19/6; 0/0; tickets: 199/9) (charge: none listed)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Blower. The last time of the Company's performing this Season. Public Advertiser, 23 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Blower, No. 12, Bedford-street, Covent-garden. Account-Book, 14 June: Paid various renters #19 16s. apiece. Receipts: #118 9s. (60/17; 28/4; 0/10; tickets: 28/18) (charge: none listed)

Event Comment: Performance to include: The much-admired Decorations of the Masquerade [see 2 May]