Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells. 2nd piece: With the Manual Exercise by Mrs Wells

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Public Advertiser, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks, No. 29, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #228 1s. (137.0.6; 5.2.6; tickets: 85.18.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Crouch. Morning Herald, 12 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Crouch, No. 6, Leicester-street, Leicester Fields. Receipts: #280 9s. 6d. (92.2.0; 15.14.0; tickets: 170.18.0) (charge: #106 12s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Brooks. Public Advertiser, 18 July: Tickets to be had of Mrs Brooks, at Mr Woodmason's, No. 68, Pall-mall

Event Comment: [Iliff was from the Edinburgh theatre; Mrs Farren from the York theatre.] Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by John O'Keeffe]. Public Advertiser, 30 Aug. 1788: This Day is published The Prisoner at Large (1s. 6d.)

Event Comment: [Adams was from the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin; Mrs Henry's 1st appearance on the stage was at cg, 25 Jan. 1788.

Event Comment: On Account of the numerous Complaints [etc., exactly as on dl playbill, 16 Sept.] [Mr and Mrs Duncan were from the Chester theatre.] Receipts: #193 10s. 6d. (190.11.6; 2.19.0)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Yarico to Mrs Billington, but "The Director is extremely sorry to be under the Necessity of making such frequent Apologies for unavoidable Disappointments [see 18, 20 Feb.]; Mrs Billington being this Afternoon taken extremely ill, it is hoped Miss Chapman will be honoured this Evening with the usual Indulgence of the Public, in the Part of Yarico" (printed slip on BM playbill, cg, Vol. VI).] Receipts: #196 9s. (185.6; 11.3)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. Mainpiece: Never performed at this Theatre. Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Morning Herald, 28 July: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble at Adams's Masquerade Warehouse, Hay-market

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Madge to Mrs Wells, but "We cannot quit this article without noticing the Margery [sic] of Mrs Davis, who gave all the innocent simplicity of the character without 'o'er stepping the modesty of nature'" (Thespian Magazine, Mar. 1793, p. 220. And see 28 Dec. 1792.] Receipts: #237 6s

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [not acted since 21 Apr. 1784. Mrs Bateman is identified in Kemble Mem.]. Receipts: #201 1s. 6d. (156.7.6; 41.11.0; 3.3.0)

Event Comment: Paid Macleish, printer [of playbills], in full for last season #62 7s. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #176 1s. (167.7.6; 8.13.6)

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; INT 1, author unknown. MS: Larpent 993; not published]. [Mrs Stuart, who was from the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, is identified in European Magazine, Nov. 1793, p. 390.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jordan. Mainpiece: In Act II a Masquerade Scene. [Author of Epilogue unknown.] Oracle, II Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan, No. 14, Somerset-street, Portman-square. Receipts: #658 19s. 6d. (319.0.0; 46.8.0; 1.17.0; tickets: 284.4.0; odd money: 7.10.6) (charge: free)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never performed at this Theatre. [In afterpiece the playbill assigns Valentine to Johnstone, but "Johnstone's indisposition produced an apology:--his character was undertaken by Incledon" (Morning Herald, 22 Sept.).] Receipts: #280 10s. 6d. (254.12.6; 25.18.0)

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15, and so continue for the remainder of the Season [see 23 Mar. 1797]. Receipts: #254 7s. 6d. (244.19.6; 9.8.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett. 1st piece: Not acted some years [acted 30 Oct. 1790]. 2nd piece [1st time: ENT 1]. 3rd piece: By Permission of George Colman, Esq., and for that Night only. Tickets and Places to be had of Fawcett at his house, No. 10, Golden Square, and of Brandon, at the Theatre. "To the Public, May 16, 1797. In consequence of repeated Forgeries of Tickets on Benefit Nights, particularly those of Miss Wallis, Mr Incledon, Mr Holman, and Mrs Mattocks, it has been found necessary to offer a large Reward for the Discovery of the Person or Persons concerned in this unjust and cruel Practice. Mr Fawcett, therefore, thinks it his Duty to warn his Friends and the Public from purchasing Tickets for his Night of Strangers, especially those Persons who sell them in the Avenues of the Theatre, as all such will be stopt at the Doors, and if forged the Persons offering them for Admittance will be drawn into a disagreeable dilemma" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill). Receipts: #462 5s. (189.12; 8.13; tickets: 264.0)

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; MD 3, by James Boaden; some of the songs written by George Colman, ynger]: With new Musick, Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. The new Musick by Dr Arnold. With an appropriate Overture, accompanied by two Pedal Harps and the Union Pipes, by Weippert, C. Jones, and Murphy. The Scenery by Marinari. The Dresses and Decorations designed by A. Johnston, and executed by him and Mrs Egan. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "Any exertion of impartial criticism to check the prevalent taste for the marvellous and the horrific which so wantonly conjures up the spirit (it was once thought had been for ever laid) of gross superstition and Gothic barbarism must, we fear, prove at present unavailing" (Times, 23 July). Morning Chronicle, 30 July 1798: This Day is published Cambro-Britons (2s.)

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; M. ENT 2, by William Linley. Larpent MS 1246; not published]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. The Overture and Musick entirely new, composed by William? Linley. Books of the Songs to be had in the Theatre. [Notice on playbill of 20 Nov.: The Author of The Pavilion, submitting with deference to the decision of the Public, has withdrawn it for the present to make such alterations as he hopes may render it an Entertainment better entitled to their approbation. (On 21 Jan. 1800, altered, it was acted as The Ring.)] "Miss DeCamp need never wish to have a better foil to her exquisite style of acting, than the puny efforts of Kelly and Mrs Crouch. They may be singers, but never should attempt to perform" (Dramatic Censor, I, 9). Receipts: #291 4s. 6d. (157.3.0; 131.8.6; 2.13.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Emery, Mrs T. Dibdin & Mrs Johnson. 1st piece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 11 Apr. 1798]. Receipts: #326 12s. (47.4.6; 7.8.0; tickets: 271.19.6)

Event Comment: Benefit Norris and Mrs Norris