Event Comment: Benefit for Carnevale, deputy manager

Event Comment: Benefit for Carleton, Wilson, Newton & J. Shade. Receipts: #23I 18s. 6d. (15/12/0; 9/12/6; 0/0/0; tickets: 206/14/0) (charge: #105 17s. 11d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Alfred, Brigg, Bourk & Walker. Tickets delivered for the 30th of May will be admitted. Morning Chronicle, 6 June: Tickets to be had of Alfred, No. 2, Middle-Temple-Lane; of Brigg, No. 6, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden; of Bourk, No. 13, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden; of Walker, No. 8, Bedford-street, Bedford-Row. Receipts: #209 15s. (33/9; 18/0; 2/8; tickets: 155/18) (charge: #105 13s. 6d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Woollery. [As afterpiece the playbill announces A Beggar on Horseback, but "on account of Edwin's being unluckily hurt by a fall from his horse, the farce was changed to A Mogul Tale (General Advertiser, 15 July).] Morning Chronicle, 10 July: Tickets to be had of Miss Woollery, No. 5, Delahay-street, Westminster

Event Comment: Benefit for Price and Watts. [The above is an advance notice on playbill of 19 July.]

Event Comment: Benefit for Benson. Tickets to be had of Mrs Benson, No. 8, Dorville's Row. 3rd piece: With two Scenes of the Ombres Chinoises; or, The Lilliputian World, representing the Broken Bridge; or, Insolent Carpenter; and a View of a Sea Fight

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. In consequence of Edwin's Indisposition, Bannister Jun. is obliged to undertake the character of Mrs Cole. Morning Chronicle, 19 July: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 29, Bow-street, Covent Garden. 1st piece [1st time; F I, author unknown, altered from The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar, by Aaron Hill. MS: Larpent 741; not published].3rd piece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 8 Sept. 1780]

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Harlowe

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells. [Miss Davies is identified in European Magazine, July 1786, p. 122. Address by William Upton (.Morning Chronicle, 29 July).]

Event Comment: Benefit for Waldron. [The above is an advance notice on playbill of 26 July.]

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss George. [Monologue by Charles Stuart {.European Magazine, Sept. 1786, p. 165).] Morning Chronicle, 31 July: Tickets to be had of Miss George, No. 23, King-street, St. Ann's, Soho. Afterpiece: Never performed here

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Morning Herald, 9 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 36, Mount-street, Grosvenor Square

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Farren. Mainpiece: Never acted here

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Morning Chronicle, 15 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 29, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Morning Chronicle, 19 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Mainpiece [1st time; C 3, by George Colman, the elder, altered from The Mutual Deception, by Joseph Atkinson, which was based on Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard, by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, and 1st acted at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 2 Mar. 1785. Prologue by the author (.European Magazine, Sept. 1786, p. 166). Author of Epilogue unknown]. Afterpiece: Never acted at this Theatre. [Prologue and Epilogue by David Garrick.] "This play, originally French, was translated by an Officer (the plot of which may be found in The Man's the Master, as well as in many other English plays and farces) who, with some few additions, changed it into five acts, and called it The Mutual Deception (which is now in print), but was represented in Ireland with little or no success. This Comedy, however, has undergone many very masterly alterations, and received many additions by the able hand of the attentive Manager of this Theatre" (Public Advertiser, 30 Aug.). Public Advertiser, 6 May 1788: To be published May 7, Tit for Tat (1s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not in the playbill]. Receipts: #182 16s. 6d. (175.12.6; 7.4.0; tickets: none listed)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of afterpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #149 2s. (146.7; 2.15; tickets: none listed)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of afterpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #220 4s. 6d. (220.4.6; 0.0.0; 0.0.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #249 7s. (244.5; 5.2; tickets: none listed)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #182 16s. 6d. (177.12.0; 5.4.6; tickets: none listed)