Event Comment: Benefit Law, Mrs Beckham, and the Miss Moreau, Miss Baker, and Miss Jackson

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell and Singleton (Boxkeepers), Page (Housekeeper), and Miss Mattocks. Tickets deliver'd by Verhuyck, Emmet, and Palmer (Pit Doorkeepers) and Driscoll will be taken

Event Comment: Benefit for ye encrease of a fund for ye support of a publick Charity [Lock Hospital] (Cross(. Rec'd cash #76 17s. 6d., plus #123 16s. from tickets; Total #200 13s. 6d. Paid Moor for pair breeches for Garrick #1 5s.; Paid 1 year's subscription to H. Park Hospital #10 10s.; To Garrick by George Garrick #7 10s.; Paid King playing S. Doctor #1 1s. by order of Lacy (Treasurer's Book). Last time of performing till the Holidays. Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hilliard. Charges #60. Deficiency to Miss Hilliard #28 7s. covered by #55 8s. from tickets. Paid Servandoni as an advance #5 5s. Receipts: #31 13s

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Charlotte Skinner. Tickets to be had at Miss Skinner's Lodgings, No 4, Angel Court, Windmill St., Haymarket (Daily Advertiser). A Concert. As no money can be taken, only those given tickets by Miss Skinner can be admitted. As this Advertisement was sent too late to be altered in the Daily Advertiser, it is hoped that the Advertisement inserted in that Paper for this Entertainment will not be regarded, as to any Money being taken for places. To begin at 6 p.m

Event Comment: Benefit for Winstone and Burton. Tickets deliver'd by Palmer and Miss Batcheldor will be taken. No building on Stage. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. No Building on Stage

Event Comment: TThe Provok'd Husband had been announced. Afterpiece: Being a Sequel to the Virgin Unmask'd

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Pit and Boxes laid together, and Stage, for better accommodation of the Ladies, will be form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Tickets to be had of Barry at the corner of Bow St., and of Hobson at the Stage Door. [This month was printd The Town, a Satire by Wm. Kenrick, with especial attack upon Garrick and Garrick's plays. In Miss in her Teens, he boasts the strange pretense, To satire Coxcombs, while he murders sense." Kenrick is one of the few who criticizes Garrick (p. 21) for playing a low character Abel Drugger, rather than a king. He yields indirect praise to Janeton Auretti by blaming the town for cheering her dance, while neglecting the players: @Yet if Janeton shakes her slender feet@How loud the thunder clatters through the Pit.@ Prologue intended to have been spoken on the Revival of The Distress'd Mother, for the Benefit of Mr Barry, but omitted through some misunderstanding. Written by Mr Rolt, printed in Gentleman's Magazine, March 1748, p. 134.] Receipts: #270 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #80 3s. 6d.; tickets, #118 5s. (Clay MS)

Event Comment: TThe Fair Penitent is deferr'd, on account of Mr Barry's Indisposition, till tomorrow. Receipts: #110 (Cross); #95 (Powel)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Falkner. We hear that the two young Africans will be at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden this night, to see the Spanish Fryar, for the Benefit of Miss Falkner. [Page missing from the General Advertiser with the Bill this day.

Event Comment: Benefit for Villeneuve. Charges #30. Deficiency to Villeneuve #4 12s. 6d., covered by #111 11s. from tickets. N.B. Mr Villeneuve has been robb'd of a number of tickets, therefore none sold at the Doors of the theatre will be taken. By desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #26 7s. 6d

Event Comment: Benefit for Scrase and Miss Thomas. Tickets of Scrase at Mr Cross's in Crown Court, Russel St., Covent Garden; of Miss Thomas at the Ring and Pearl, Duke's Court, Bow St., and at stage door. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years [see 26 June 1759]

Event Comment: MMrs Love play'd Mrs Peachum very bad. Her fit seem'd a very Aukward Imitation of Mrs Pritchard in the Jealous Wife (Hopkins). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No money received at the Stage Door. None returned after the curtain is up. Play to begin exactly at 6 o'clock. Places may be had of Mr Johnston at the Stage Door. Vivat Rex et Regina. [Customary notice, which will not be repeated here, Sept. 15 David Garrick & his Lady set out for Italy from his house in Southampton St. Covent Garden (Winston MS 9). Winston also refers to a Sept. 9 Letter from T. Davies, cg, to the poet Charles Churchill begging he would not introduce so unimportant a person as himself in his Smithfield Rosciad.] Receipts: #248 9s. (Cross Diary)

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Cremonini & Managers. Miss Wright being very ill Mr Vernon made an Apology & her part in the opera was cut out (Hopkins). Opera for the last time this season. Receipts: #140 4s. (MacMillan); charges: #76 12s. [Profit to Sga Cremonini: #63 12s.

Event Comment: To begin at 7:00 p.m. Boxes 5s. Pits 3s. Gallery 2s. Places for the Boxes to be had of Mr Jewell at the Theatre. Vivant Rex et Regina. [Repeated in the bills. Note in St James Chronicle speaks of great crowd and of numbers turned away.