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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Pritchard. Tickets at Mrs Pritchard's, Craven Buildings, dl

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Philips; III: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; IV: French Peasant-Vallois, Miss Scot; In V: Polish Dance-Haughton, Mrs Walter; V: Minuet-Master Ferg, Miss Harwood

Music: I: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg

Song: II: Cantata-Beard; V: The Early Horn (by Desire)-Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Ford and Houghton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: I: Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; III: Two Pierrots-Lalauze, Nivelon; V: Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Song: II: Cantata-Roberts; IV: Leveridge, Laguerre

Event Comment: Benefit Haughton. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [Tickets for Ray and Mrs Bennet taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; II: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Haughton, Mrs Thompson; III: Polish Dance-Haughton, Mrs Walter; IV: Drunken Peasant-Philips; V: Scots Dance-Haughton, Vallois, Rector, Mrs Walter, Miss Thompson, Mrs Vallois

Event Comment: Benefit Lynam. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; II: Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; IV: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; V: French Sailors-Lalauze, Mlle Roland

Song: III: Leveridge, Laguerre

Event Comment: Benefit Mines, Gallant, Verhuyck, Naylor. Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Dance: SSerious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; A new Pantomime Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel

Event Comment: Benefit Castelman, the Treasurer. Mainpiece: Written by Farquhar. [Tickets at Castelman's Lodgings, at Watford's, Russel Street, Bloomsbury

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; IV: Polish Dance-Haughton, Mrs Walter; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

Song: III: Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Philips, the Harlequin. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [Tickets at Philips' Lodgings, at the Harness Maker's in Bedford Court, cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord or Taste a la Mode

Dance: I: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: A new Hornpipe-Philips; IV: Drunken Peasant-Philips; V: Russian Sailor-Denoyer

Music: III: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg

Event Comment: Benefit Hyde. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: La Pieraite-Livier, Mrs Thompson; III: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

Event Comment: Benefit Guise, Warraner, Evans, Boxkeepers. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; II: Je ne scai quoy-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; III: Serious Dance-Mlle Roland; IV: Pantomime Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Event Comment: Benefit Wilmer, Lawrence, Mrs Atkins, Boxkeepers. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: SSerious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Pantomime Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; Comic Dance-Tench, Miss Cantrel

Song: SSince Times are so bad (Purcell)-Leveridge, Salway

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At the Request of several Persons of Quality. [See dl, 17 March 1737, for a performance once intended for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste Or The Guardians

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

Song: In: the usual Songs-Mrs Clive, Beard; particularly The Life of a Beau-Mrs Clive, Beard; The Beaux Lamentation-Mrs Clive, Beard for the Loss of Faranelli; The Provident Damsel-Mrs Clive, Beard

Dance: III: Two Pierrots-Pelling, Vallois; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Event Comment: Benefit Vaughan, Boxkeeper, and Gwinn's Widow, late Pit Doorkeeper. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; II: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; III: Je ne scai quoy-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; IV: Pantomime Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Song: III: Chancon a Boire-Leveridge, Laguerre

Event Comment: Benefit Banks, Duck, Rivers, Jones

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Dance: I: Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; II: Pantomime-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; II: Je ne scai quoy-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood and Miss Brett. Afterpiece: Not Acted these Twenty-five Years. A Comical Tragedy of two short Acts. Decorated with proper Cloaths, Scenes, Musick, and Attendants. [Tickets at Chetwood's Lodgings, Blue Door, in Maiden Lane, cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queans With the odd Humours of little Alexander the Great

Dance: I: Punch-Master Ferg; II: A new Sailor's Dance-Phillips; III: Dance of Turks-Muilment; End I Afterpiece: Pierrots-Pelling, Vallois; II: Drunken Peasant (for the Entertainment of Alexander)-Phillips; III: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Song: IV: See from the Silent Groves-Beard

Music: H$Handel's Water Musick-; with Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Woodbridge, his first appearance here

Event Comment: Benefit Hobson, Beckham, Allen, Miss Cole

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Milward
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Russian Sailor-Denoyer; IV: La Pieraite-Livier, Mrs Thompson; V: Grand Ballet-Lilliputians

Song: III: Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Yates, Bowcher, Mrs Elmy, Miss Oates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Dance: P Peasant Dance-Master and Miss Oates; Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Event Comment: Benefit Leviez and Wright. Tickets for Tyldesley also taken. Tickets at Leviez's, next Door to Boar's Head in Henrietta Street, cg; of Wright, Golden Bull in Stanhope-Street, near lif

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Saraband-Miss Wright, Miss Morrison; II: French Peasant-Master Ferg, Miss Wright, Scholars to Leviez; AII: La Pieraite-Leviez, Mrs Thompson; IV: Grand Ballet in Comic Characters-the Lilliputians; V: Minuet-Leviez, Mrs Walter

Song: II: Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Vallois and the two Misses Scot, Scholars to Vallois. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: I: Comic Dance-younger Miss Scot; II: By Desire of several Ladies of Quality, Minuet, with new Ball Dance called The Princess of Saxe Gotha-Vallois, Miss Scot; III: Two Pierrots-Vallois, Pelling; IV: French Peasant-Vallois, Leviez, Mrs Thompson, Rector, Miss Brett, Pelling, Mrs Vallois

Event Comment: Benefit a Family under misfortunes. At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Two Pierrots-Vallois, Pelling; III: Punch-Master Ferg; IV: Comic Dance-younger Miss Scott

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman (of a Baronet's Family) now under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: I: Punch-Master Ferg; III: Minuet, The Bretagne-Miss Wright, Miss Morrison; V: La Pierraite-Leviez, Mrs Thompson

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Boxkeeper. Mainpiece: Written b9 Ben Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: Punch-Master Ferg; III: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

Event Comment: Benefit Bradshadow (Boxkeeper) and Moor (Box Bookkeeper). Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: I: Minuet-Master Ferg, Miss Harwood; III: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; V: Grand Ballet, in Comic Characters, -the Lilliputians

Song: IV: See from the Silent Groves-Beard; End Afterpiece: The Life of a Beau-

Music: II: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg

Event Comment: Benefit Marshall, Gray, Peploe, Rumball (Boxkeeper), Bishop (Gallery Keeper). Mainpiece: Taken from Moliere by the late Mrs Betterton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Minuet-Master Ferg, Miss Harwood; II: La Pieraite-Leviez, Miss Thompson; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

Song: III: Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Walker. [Advertised in Daily Advertiser only.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Event Comment: Benefit Wm. Spragg

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: CComic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates