Event Comment: Receipts: #50 8s. Probable attendance: boxes, 68 paid and 10 orders; pit, 117 paid and 9 orders; slips, 8 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 109 paid and 7 orders; second gallery, 83 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #42 9s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 23 paid and 9 orders; pit, 110 paid and 12 orders; slips, 6 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 156 paid and 13 orders; second gallery, 63 paid and 2 orders

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #45 3s.; tickets #27 4s. Probable attendance: boxes, 48 paid and 45 by tickets; stage, 2 paid; p1t, 112 paid and 67 by tickets; slips, 5 paid; first gallery, 103 paid and 59 by tickets; second gallery, 61 pa1d

Event Comment: Receipts: #45 17s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 28 paid and 15 orders; pit, 159 paid and 17 orders; slips, 9 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 112 paid and 6 orders; second gallery, 45 paid

Event Comment: Benefit Boheme. And the Flyings, Sinkings, and usual Decorations. N.B. Mr Boheme continuing indispos'd, the Tragedy of King Lear cannot be acted. Receipts: money #30 18s.; tickets #57 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 6 by money and 49 by tickets; pit, 59 by money and 246 by tickets; slips, 9 by money; first gallery, 97 by money and 81 by tickets; second gallery, 51 by money

Event Comment: Receipts: #66 7s. Probable attendance: boxes, 40 paid and 22 orders; stage, 3 paid; pit 181 paid and 25 orders; slips, 11 paid and 11 orders; first gallery, 170 paid and 24 orders; second gallery, 157 paid and 2 orders

Event Comment: Benefit Houghton, Lanyon, Papillon. Receipts: money #13 8s. 6d.; tickets #164 7s. Probable attendance: boxes, 14 by money and 279 by tickets; stage, 4 by money; pit, 13 by money and 390 by tickets; slips, 1 by money; first gallery, 22 by money and 361 by tickets; second gallery, 43 by money

Event Comment: A private performance. For details, see Deutsch, Handel, pp. 285-86, Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, pp. 203-204, and Egmont, Diary, I, 225

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 1 Nov.: Last Thursday Night four or five Persons (amongst whom two were known to belong to the Attorney of a neighbouring Manager) attended...Cato at [lif]: Their first Endeavour was to induce the Company in the Middle Gallery, where they were, to leave the House, insinuating there was nothing worth seeing could be play'd there, (tho' they had never seen the Gentleman who acted Cato,) and retiring towards the Door, as if to go out, in order to set others the Example: This Design failing, they thought fit to stay; and to make their Words good, resolv'd to interrupt the Performance, Their second Stratagem was to cry out Fire, making again to the Door to confirm the Reality of it: That miscarrying, the next was to hiss whenever the rest of the House applauded, no doubt, with the brutal Intention to confuse the Gentleman who play'd Cato in his first Attempt of that Kind, and might have effected their Purpose, if the whole House had not generously and vigorously oppos'd it, from a high Opinion of his Merit

Event Comment: Benefit a Citizen. [Prices are Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. for the rest of the season unless otherwise recorded.

Event Comment: SStationers Hall, Ludgate St. Benefit Edmund Larken...With all the choruses. Composed by Mr Handel.] Printed Books of the Masque will be given gratis at the place of performance. Tickets at 5s. each. Particular care will be taken to have the Hall well air'd

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Tickets as before. Regulus publish'd. As it is acted by his Majesties Servants at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, by Mr Havard, Author of King Charles the First. Inter omnes suos laudabiles & Virtutum insignibus illustres Viros, non preferunt Romani meliorem; quem neque Felicitas corruperit, nam in tanta Victoria, mansit pauperrimus; Nec Infelicitas fregerit, nam ad tanta Exitia revertit intrepidus. (St. Aust. de Regulo. Lib I. de Civitat. Dei.) Printed for H. Woodfall, Jr. in Little Britain, by Paul Vaillant facing Southampton Street in the Strand. J. Watts and B. Dodd also advertised King Charles the First, an Historical Tragedy, written in imitation of Shakespear, and Scanderbeg, a Tragedy. Both written by Mr Havard, author of Regulus