Event Comment: Benefit for Cibber. Tickets of Page at the Stage Door. [The entertainments and mixed afterpieces formed the most elaborate night's performance this season.

Event Comment: Benefit for Roberts, Holtham, Page (Housekeeper) and Miss Morrison. Tickets deliver'd by Rawlins, Miss Allen, Miss Davis and Mrs Griffiths will be taken

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton and Miss Minors. Tickets of Burton at the Lock and Key in Brownlow St., Long-Acre; of Miss Minors, at a Baker's in Bridges St., and at the Stage Door. Tickets deliver'd out by Marr, Miss Batchelor, and Mrs Gibbons will be taken. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Event Comment: [K+King Richard III.] Containing the Distresses and Death of King Henry VIv, the artful acqusition of the crown by Richardv; the cruel murder of the young King Edward Vv and his brother in the Tower; the Landing of the Earl of Richmondv, and the Death of Richard in the Memorable Battle of Bosworth Fieldv; being the last that was fought between the Houses of Yorkv and Lancasterv; with many other historical passages

Event Comment: Mr G very fine-Voice clear to the last great Applause. House (Hopkins Diary). Ladies and Gentlemen requested to come early to prevent confusion. Rec'd Stopages #6 5s. 6d.; from Mr Clutterbuck #100; Paid salary list #494 18s. 6d.; Mrs Abington's cloaths acct #2; Mr S. French #1 10s.; Signora Vidini, 1 day in full of this season 16s. 8d. Receipts: #268 8s. 6d. (Treasurer#s Book)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By the Author of the Register Office [Reed]. By Permission and Particular Desire. The tragedy was originally written in Italian by Sg Fonidoso Dellarundo, of Civita Vecchia, and bequeathed by him, at his Decease, to an English Gentleman, with whom he had contracted an intimate Acquaintance. It was translated into English by the celebrated Mr Rone, and (considering the difference of the idiom between the two languages) it is thought equal at last, if not superior to the original (Public Advertiser)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Ward. Receipts: #135 2s. (23/6; 13/18; 0/5; tickets: 97/13) (charge: #107 12s. 11d.)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. Receipts: #201 12s. (150.8.0; 51.1.6; 0.2.6)

Event Comment: "...Richard III, which I saw performed at Drury-lane theatre at the beginning of the present season...The dresses of the characters which here make their appearance are in the usual half-and-half mode, made up from portraits of Charles I's reign, and from unrestrained fancy. Richard's habit, indeed, shews a faint hint, at the costume of his day; but how modernized! A fancy cap and feather,with a milliner's white-ribband rose, sewed thereon. A deep ruff, of that make not known until the reign of James I From the neck depends a ribband With the George: this decoration never seen in paintings till about the fashions of the abovementioned monarch's court. On his legs and feet, white silk stockings, white shoes, and red roses. These latter ornaments unknown before Elizabeth or James I's modes of dress prevailed; at any rate, they should have been white ones to have accorded with the party-badge in his cap." Writer signing himself "An Artist and an Antiquary" in Gentleman's Magazine, Apr. 1800, p. 319. Receipts: #225 16s. 6d. (178.3.6; 47.12.0; 0.1.0)

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Benefit Miss Holliday. Afterpiece: A New Pastoral Ballad Opera of one Act [Author unknown]. Receipts: money #47 16s.; tickets #123 13s. [Prince and two of three eldest Princesses present.] Gentleman's Magazine, I (1731), 216: Miss Holliday...received from the Royal Family, over and above the usual Present, a large Gold Medal, weighing about 50 Guineas, with the Bust of her Majesty as Electress of Hanover on each Side