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Event Comment: Benefit Shawford, Peacopp [Housekeeper], Currier, Fryar. Tickets deliver'd for the Beggar's Opera will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: V: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Event Comment: Benefit Driscoll, Banks, Trott. Tickets deliver'd out by Sadler, Garney, Mrs Tubman and others will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: Benefit Oates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: I: Lowe

Dance: IV: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Music: A Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Joseph Woodbridge; concluding with: Handel's Water Music-

Event Comment: Benefit Hobson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: I: Lowe; IV: O Peace out of Alfred -Mrs Clive

Dance: III: Muilment; V: Swiss Dance, as17460416

Event Comment: Benefit Barrisford, Plummer, Maccula, Neale [Boxkeepers]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies or Tom Thumb

Event Comment: Benefit Yates and Walker [Numberers]; Goodwin, Scullough, Lathbury, George

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: I: Lowe

Dance: The Mechels

Event Comment: Benefit I. Sparks. Tickets deliver'd out by Lloyd, Mason, Caustin, &c will be taken, and tickets deliver'd out by Brooks, Bride, Mrs Barclay, Mrs Fenn, and others for the Country Wife for Thursday last will be taken this night. Being the last time of the Company's performing this season. [The advance notice of this night had included the Musical Entertainment of Neptune and Amphitrite (compos'd by Arne), but this is omitted from the notice of the day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Song: CCantata-Lowe

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hussey. Shepherd's Market near Piccadilly. A Concert, etc. Boxes 2s. Pit or Gallery 1s. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Flora or Hob in the Well

Event Comment: Benefit Phillips, former Harlequin to the Old House, now a Prisoner. [Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library. Performance not named, but bill says This Day.

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Perry. A Concert, etc. [repeated in all notices of this theatre.] Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: Benefit Warner. A concert, etc. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Mathews, Williams

Event Comment: Benefit Costollo. At the New Theatre. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: II: Russian Sailor-Phillips; V: Drunken Peasant-Phillips

Song: I: The Answer to the Fly-Cunningham; III: In Praise of their Wives-Master Butcher; IV: The Irish Trot-Costollo

Event Comment: Benefit of a Citizen and a Vintner's Widow

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Song: As17461124

Dance: As17461124

Event Comment: Benefit a Decay'd Citizen, with a large Family. By particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Cushing

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: As17461104

Event Comment: Benefit J. Yeates. 2s., 1s. 6d., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Event Comment: Benefit for the author of the Dramatic Entertainment. [Afterpiece written by Joseph Dorman.] Never before performed. [See 18 Nov. 1740.] Tickets to be had of the Author at Pons Coffee House in Cecil Court, St. Martin's Lane. Tickets deliver'd out for Monday the 22nd Instant will be taken. Ladies send servants by three

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Sir Roger de Coverly or the Merry Christmas

Song: III: Lowe

Event Comment: Benefit Garrick (Charges #60.) as author of the Farce (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #194 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Benefit Richard Starkey, late of Goodman's Fields Wells, now a Prisoner in the Fleet, and having not the Opportunity to wait on his Friends

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17461124; Hornpipe-Williams

Event Comment: Benefit a Distress'd Gentlewoman. Prices 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple Or A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Howard. Prices 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Major. Prices 2s. 6d., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Master Morgan, Miss Baker

Event Comment: Benefit Barry. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Ladies send servants by three. Tickets at his lodgings in Bow St

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved Or A Plot Discoverd

Dance: II: Salomon, Mlle Violette, Cook, Salomon's Son; III: Muilment; V: Grand Comic Dance-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Cooke, Sga Padouana

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Budgell. Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. Nothing under the full price will be taken during the whole time of the performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Benefit Ravenscroft and Beaumont. For the Entertainment of the Ancient Family of the Rowlands,

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: As17461124; Hornpipe-Beaumont

Event Comment: Benefit Sga Padouana. The last night of Mlle Violette's dancing (Winston MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Dance: Entertainments-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Sga Padouana, Salomon's Son