Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron & Morris. [Palmer's 1st appearance as Archer was at the HAY, 17 Aug. 1779. Afterpiece in place of The Alchymist, announced on playbill of 30 May.] Receipts: #254 17s. (36/2; 19/6; 0/0; tickets: 199/9) (charge: none listed)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron & Morris. Receipts: #297 4s. 6d. (18/13/0; 5/14/6; 0/4/0; tickets: 272/13/0) (charge: #106)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron & J. Shade. The last Time of the Company's performing this Season. Account-Book, 1 July: Paid Renters #20 4s. apiece; received of Their Majesties #73. Receipts: #31 8s. (23/18/0; 6/11/6; 0/18/6; tickets: none listed) (charge:#105 6s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton, Beeston, Longley & Colley. Tickets delivered by Robson, Stephenson, Robinson, Varley, Small wood, Partridge, Shirley, Shuter, Pilbrow, Turtle, W. Ansell, Hall will be admitted this Evening. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. [This was Whitsun Eve, on which night the theatre was customarily closed.] Receipts: #242 17s. (29/17/6; 3/9/6; tickets: 209/10/0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Cameron & Percey. Receipts: #256 2s. (13/15; 7/5; 0/15; tickets: 234/7) (charge: #108 11s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Cameron & Percey. Receipts: #273 19s. (22.11.0; 8.17.6; 1.12.6; tickets: 240.18.0) (charge: #105 18s. 5d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Cameron & Percey. Receipts: #250 9s. 6d. (13.0.0; 7.10.0; 3.0.6; tickets: 226.19.0) (charge: #106 9s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Cameron & Percey. Receipts: #255 6s. (22.10; 10.7; 0.15; tickets: 221.14) (charge: #105 13s. 7d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Cameron, Percey, George, Woollams. Receipts: #272 12s. (13.4.0; 7.11.6; 2.6.6; tickets: 249.10.0) (charge: #105 19s. 10d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron, Wilson, George, Woollams. Kemble Mem.: Benefit for the Boxkeepers. A New Edition of the [mainpiece] to be had at the Theatre. "Went to play. Mrs Jordan in 'Rosalind.' I am still of opinion, there is more in her person and natural manners than in her acting. Her merit lies out of her part. The words set down by the author she does not repeat with great propriety of tone, emphasis, or gesture, than others. But she has of these, certain peculiarities, which indicate dispositions, such as take strong hold of the affections, at least of the male part of her audience; and therefore, when the part is of a sort to admit a large portion of these, she produces a great effect. The true acting of the part may, in many instances, not require what she throws into it, but it may admit it; and if the expression so thrown in is of the sort described, the effect of the whole will be improved, though the part is thereby neither better nor worse acted" (Windham Diary, 28 May 1791, 227). Receipts: #363 4s. 6d. (33.5.0; 9.5.6; 2.13.0; tickets: 318.1.0) (charge: #117 1s. 7d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron, Wilson, George, Woollams. Kemble Mem.: Bt. the box-keepers. Receipts: #98 6s. (59.6.6; 26.0.6; 12.19.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #147 12s.)

Event Comment: Among the Instrumental Performers are C. Ashley, Patria, Sarjant, Mahon, Boyce, Mountain, Lavenu, Simpson, Gwilliam, Purney, Munro, Leander, Kaye, Sharp, Wood, &c. &c. Double Drums, Bass Trumpets, &c. The whole under the Direction of Ashley. Boxes 6s. Pit 3s. 6d. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No Money to be returned. Places to be had of Brandon at the Box-Office in Hart-Street. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]. Books of the Performance, 6d. each, may be had at the Theatre. The Director's Books have these words at the bottom of each Title Page: "Printed by H. Macleish, Recorder Office, Duke's-court, Drury-lane.

Event Comment: Benefit for Gibson, Wood, Rice, Wilson. Kemble Mem.: Benefit the boxkeepers. Receipts: #40 18s. (27.16; 11.17; 1.5; tickets: none listed) (charge: #148 13s.)

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD and MY GRANDMOTHER, both advertised on playbill of 3 Jan.]

Event Comment: Principal Violoncello by C. Ashley. Double Drums by R. Ashley. Trumpets by Sariant, Cantelo, Purney. Among the other Principal Instrumental Performers are Foster, Mahon, Boyce, Flack, Lavenu, John Sharp, Simpson, Gwilliam, Monro, Mich. Sharp, Wood, Warren, Wm. Sharp, Cobham, Cornish, Jenkinson, F. Sharp, Shutze, Lord, Woodham, J. Sharp, Franks, &c. With a Complete Set of Chorus Singers. The Whole under the Direction of Ashley. Boxes 6s. Pit 3s. 6d. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No Money to be returned. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]. Places to be had of Brandon at the Box Office in Hart-street. Books of the Performance, 6d. each, may be had at the Theatre. The Directors' Books have these words at the bottom of each title-page: "Printed by H. Madeish, Recorder-Office, Duke's-Court, Drury-lane."

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of THE CHEATS OF SCAPIN , advertised on playbill of 23 Apr.] Powell: As You Like It rehearsed at 10; Children in the Wood at 12; Jew at 1. Receipts: #418 11s. (371/ 1/6; 45/2/0; 2/4/6; tickets not come in: 0/6/0)

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of A MOGUL TALE; 2nd piece of THE SON-IN-LAW, and THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD, all advertised on playbill of 17 July.)

Event Comment: Principal Instrumental Performers-C. Ashley, Bridgtower, Archer, Harvey, Sarjant, Mahon, Boyce, Cantelo, Parkinson, Taylor, J. Sharp, Lavenu, Napier, Simpson, the Flacks, Purney, Seutze, Gwilliam, Monro, Wood, Warren, Woodham, Francis, M. Sharp, &c. Organ by J. Ashley. Double Drums by R. Ashley. The Chorusses will be numerous and compleat, and the Orchestra will consist of upwards of Two Hundred Performers. The whole under the Direction of Ashley. Boxes 6s. Pit 3s. 6d. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places to be taken, and Tickets for the Boxes may be had of Brandon at the Office in Hart-street. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]. [This performance was originally advertised to take place at the Pantheon, Oxford-street, but "The routed Host of Harmonists, driven from their new works in Oxford-road, hastily encamped last night [at Covent Garden]. Their performance...went off as might be expected from a scanty band, thus collected, without any previous rehearsal" (Morning Herald, 21 Feb.). The Pantheon had been destroyed by fire in January 1792. Work on its reconstruction had only recently been begun, and Was still not completed. It was reopened with a masquerade on 9 April 1795, the "usual licenses being now fully renewed and established" (Morning Herald, 9 Apr.).

Event Comment: Benefit for Shade, Cameron, Nix, Woollams, Wood, Dangerfield, Wilson, Panchaud, Irish, Edwards, Wooldridge, Griffiths. Kemble Mem.: BT. the box-keepers. Receipts: #528 8s. 6d. (30.13.6; 16.7.6; 11.7.6; tickets: 470.0.0) (charge: #211 14s.)