Event Comment: The Dirge (from the General Advertiser).@ Ah, hapless Maid doom'd to the gaping Jaws@Of a Cold and Comfortless and Dreary Tomb.@Thy Marriage song is chang'd to mournful Dirge@Thy bridal bed to a black Fun'ral Hearse.@Hark, how with awful Pause the solemn Bell@In Death-like Sounds tolls her untimely Knell.@She was her Parents' sole delight@They had but one and only child.@Since Death has torn her from their Arms@With Grief and Sorrow they are wild.@Their Grief and Sorrow ev'ry Bosom shares@Witness our sighs and Groans and falling Tears.

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Last time of performing mainpiece this season. N.B. A New Tomb will be made use of, so modell'd as to prevent any obstruction to persons sitting on the stage, from seeing the performance. Pit and boxes will be laid together. Amphitheatre on stage. Servants admitted to keep places. Tickets at Mr Barry's in Bow St., Covent Garden and at Stage Door

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: Not acted these two years. [See 30 Nov. 1749. Inspector No 191 analyzes and discusses The Orphan (Daily Advertiser and Literary Gazette).] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: mong the Addresses of the Lords and Commons to the Sovereign which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine (Nov. 1751, pp. 513-14) one recommended that provision be made for suppressing audacious crimes of robbery and violence. A contributor called Mr Urban's attention to a "method of reformation earnestly recommended more than 40 years ago by an eminent Divine" (Dean Swift). In this treatise occured the following paragraph: "The Reformation of the Stage is entirely in the power of the Court; and in the consequence it hath upon the minds of younger people, doth very well deserve the strictest care. Surely a pension would not be ill employed on some men of wit, learning and virtue, who might have power to strike out every offensive and unbecoming passage from plays already written, as well as those that may be offered to the stage for the future, by which, and other wise regulations, the theatre might become a very innocent and useful diversion instead of being a scandal and reproach to our religion and country."] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: Both pieces By His Majesty's Command

Event Comment: TTancred and Sigismunda is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of a principal performer. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Event Comment: [The twenty-first Day. Pit price reduced to 2s. 6d. Ladies desired to send their servants early.

Event Comment: Benefit for Cross, Prompter, Mrs Cross, and Son. N.B. Mr Cross takes the liberty to inform the Ladies and Get&ntlemen who intend to honour him with their company, that his constant Attendance upon the Business of the theatre, will hinder him from applying to them in person, and therefore hopes to receive their commands at his house in Crown Court, Little Russel-Street, Covent Garden, or at the Stage Door of the theatre, where Tickets and Places are to be had for his benefit. Receipts: #156 (Cross)

Event Comment: PPublic Advertiser: As I saw in the papers that the tragedy of Phaedra is shortly to be acted at Covent Garden, I thought that the following lines, written upon Mrs Woffington's performance of the character in Ireland would not be unacceptable to you, or to your readers. They fell casually into my hands. If you think them worth inserting, they are at your service [a poem of 104 lines follows]: @Oft has the poet sweetly sung in vain@When tasteless actors chaunt the heavenly strain... Woffington seems reserved to play the part magnificently. The analysis, tho' fettered to the couplet, is more specific as to her gestures and expression, and tone, than most such commentaries

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrington and Mrs Vincent. No building on Stage. Mainpiece: Performed for the last time this season

Event Comment: Benefit for Froment. The evening's Entertainment to begin postively at a Quarter after Six

Event Comment: Mainpiece: never acted before. Afterpiece: A Comic Pantomime Ballet. By Authority. At Reduced Prices. Box 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. Subscribers Tickets will be taken any Night it is performed. To begin at half an hour after six. Send Servants by half past four

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross); #134 17s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Event Comment: Full Prices. [The Pantomime] revived with Additional Scenes of Action. Receipts: #203 7s

Event Comment: Receipts: #164 11s. Paid Mr Kemp on acct for tin work, #21

Event Comment: Receipts: #93 0s. 6d. [The Covent Garden Cash Book indicates the mainpiece this night to be The Conscious Lovers.] Paid Mr Martin [wardrobe keeper?] 3 months salary to Xmas 1759, #10

Event Comment: Receipts: #147 11s. Paid Jno Rich for Mr Morris, #246 3s

Event Comment: Receipts: #296 11s. Paid Mr Sheridan a draft for #300; Sarjant on acct of his salary #5; Advanc'd Gibbs #2 2s

Event Comment: Full prices. Last time of performing till Easter Holidays. Receipts: #214 11s. Paid Kemp #6 8s.; Meares #0 10s. 6d.;Mr Platt for mahogany chair frames (12), #9 12s.; Paid Rich #50; Paid 10 night's Rents for Oratorios #100. I was to see the Jovial Crew and the Fair again, at the Gallery at Covent Garden, where I see Mrs Viebert, Miss Meredith & Mr Madan. Slept in at Drury Lane Gallery where I see the best part of Catherine & Petruchio for King's Benefit (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 210)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Davies. Part of Pit laid into Boxes