Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. The Characters dressed in the Habits of the Country. Afterpiece [1st time; C 2, ascribed to Charles Stuart. Author of Address unknown]. Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Lessingham at her House, the corner of Percy-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #224 1s. 6d. (151.19.6; tickets: 72.2.0) (charge: #65 13s. 6d.)

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for Mrs Bellamy. [This was Mrs Bellamy's last appearance on the stage. And see dl, 24 May 1785.] Receipts: none listed

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted here these 6 years. Afterpiece: Taken from [the same, by Henry? Fielding, and prepared for the stage by the Author of Midas, &c. [Kane O'Hara; 1st time; BURL 2. Text 1st published by J. Barker [1805]]. With a new Overture, Dresses, and Decorations. The Overture, Songs, Duets and Chorusses composed and compiled by J. Markordt. Books of the Burletta to be had at the Theatre (on playbill of 10 Nov.). Account-Book, 1 Feb. 1781: Paid Mackordt [sic] for music of Tom Thumb #20. [Mrs Inchbald was from the York theatre. Master Edwin had spoken a Prologue at cg on 22 Apr. 1780.] Receipts: #152 1s. 6d. (149.2.0; 2.19.6)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [Mrs Mahon is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.] Afterpiece: Not acted these 5 years. Receipts: #210 13s. (208.8.6; 2.4.6)

Event Comment: Paid Mrs Abington on account of her Salary #250. Receipts: #244 12s. 6d. (235/13/0; 8/19/6)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. Receipts: none listed (charge: #65 19s.)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [Bonnor and Miss Scrase were from the Bath theatre; Mrs Chalmers from the York theatre.] Receipts: #201 18s. (200/5; 1/13)

Event Comment: "Nothing could be more affecting than [Mrs Crawford's] expression of the sorrows in the character; nor anything more languid and undecorous than her level recitation . . . Discharge the fire, and she sinks into a tasteless disregard of the business, which injures, if it does not destroy the illusion. It is in this that Mrs Siddons triumphs over her... But she cannot, so powerfully as Mrs Crawford, assail at intervals the heart" (Gazetteer, 30 Nov.)

Event Comment: Windham Diary (30 Jan. 1784), 41: On the Wednesday 1 went to see Mrs Crawford in 'Belvidera', and found her much as I expected, though her disparity was very great. I can perhaps better conceive the delusion that, aided by a little prejudice [in favor of Mrs Siddons] and the recollection of Mrs C. in better times, could hesitate about the preference. The chief faults that I should find would be, that her articulation was cramped and timid, her tones sometimes colloquial and vulgar, her action confined, and her countenance inexpressive. A new man of the name of Pope performed; I pronounced him in my own judgment as inferior, upon the whole, to Brereton. [Henderson's 1st appearance as Pierre was at Bath, 14 Oct. 1773.]

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Henderson. Pit and Boxes will be laid together. Ladies and Gentlemen are most earnestly requested to come early, to prevent Inconvenience in getting to their Places, and to send their Servants to keep them by Four o'clock. [Prologue by Arthur Murphy {Works, 1786, VII, 369).] Morning Herald, 14 Feb.: Tickets to be had at the house of the late Mr Henderson [see 8 Nov. 1785], Buckingham-street, York Buildings. "The poetical address delivered by Mrs Siddons before the play was written by Murphy, and was so very dull that we will charitably suppose his feelings obstructed the operation of his fancy" (General Advertiser, 27 Feb.). Receipts: #141 9s. 6d. (140/15/0; 0/14/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: free)

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: [This was Mrs Abington's 1st appearance on the stage since 12 Feb. 1790, except for 14 June 1797, when she spoke an epilogue at a charity benefit.] "Her former Beatrice was a chaste, animated, unaffected and captivating performance; but her Beatrice of this night was, for the greater part, languid and unattractive. Her deportment, however, is easy and graceful; but her person is too big and heavy to give any effect to the more gay and sprightly scenes. We conceive it to be the height of folly and imprudence in her to come forward in the present advanced period of her existence; and that too, with a person so ill calculated for the department, and attempt characters which demand all the vigour and activity of youth" (Monthly Visitor, Oct. 1797, p. 352). [Address by George Colman, ynger (London Chronicle, 7 Oct.).] Receipts: #348 2s. (336.18; 11.14)

Event Comment: [Huddart, whose 1st appearance on the stage was at the Crow Street Theatre Dublin, on 14 May 1798, is identified in European Magazine, Oct. 1798, p. 258.] "In the gentle and tender scenes [Huddart] was impressive...but in the impassioned parts he was often too boisterous, and from his too eager exertion, he exhausted himself, in a great measure, before the conclusion of the piece" (Morning Herald, 16 Oct.). [Mrs Pope, as Miss Campion, had 1st appeared as Desdemona at the same theatre, 11 Mar. 1790. Mrs Wybrow was from the Royal Circus. She had appeared at cg on 6 June 1798.] Afterp iece [1st time; BALL. PI, by John Cartwright Cross. Larpent MS 1228. Text (i.e. synopsis of the ballet, and the songs) in his Circusiana (Lackington, Allen & Co., 1890), Vol. 1; it lists the cast for the Royal Circus]: Taken chiefly from the favourtie Piece of the latter Title [1st acted at the Royal Circus, 9 Apr. 1798], with Alterations and Additions by the original Author. The Music by Sanderson, and Scenery by Phillips, Lupino, Hollogan, Blackmore, &c. Receipts: #294 15s. 6d. (290.8.6; 4.7.0)

Event Comment: Benefit of Mattocks and Hull. Tickets deliver'd for The Busy Body will be taken. No Building on Stage. [Playbill suggests Beard and Mattocks took the parts of Sailor and Squire for the 1st time this night. According to Genest they had performed them since 28 Nov. 1760, i.e., for 23 times this season. Possibly their parts were originally reversed.] Receipts: #79 17s. 6d. plus income from tickets: Mattocks #40 6s. (Box 37; Pit 159; Gallery 72); Hull #42 1s. (Box 80; Pit 111; Gallery 54) (Account Book). Charges: #64 6s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Benefit for Mattocks, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Green. Tickets delivered out for Mrs Stephens and for The Tender Husband will be taken. No building on Stage. Receipts: #53 10s. 6d. in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each beneficiary #3 11s. 6d. covered by income from tickets. @Mattock Box 25@Pit 176@Gallery 100@Value #14 13s.@Mrs Green Box 28@Pit 90@Gallery 83@Value #28 16s.@Mrs Pit Box 14@Pit 149@Gallery 216@Value #47 9s.

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Vincent. No Building on Stage. Afterpiece: Never perform'd there before, from a Comedy of Durfey's

Event Comment: Benefit for Younger (prompter). Tickets delivered by Mrs Stephens, Miss Helme, Miss Twist, and Murden will be taken

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespeare and Thompson, not acted these 4 years. Afterpiece: For last time this season (playbill of 19 April 1768). [See 18 Feb. 1765. This Coriolanus is possibly the Tragedy by Thomas Sheridan, 8vo, 1755.] @Receipts #85 10s. 6d.@House charge #63@Candles #1 5s.@Extras: Kettle Drum 5s.@2 Side Drums 4s.@4 Fifes 8s.@2 Trumpets 10s.@Chorus Singers #1 10s.@Wardrobe #5 19s.@Total #73 1s. 6d.@Balance due Mrs Lessingham #12 9s.@Tickets 197 137 89 #78 14s.@Money #85 10s. 6d.@Total value of House #164 4s. 6d. (Account Book).@ Mr Clarke being suddenly taken ill in the afternoon [yesterday] his part in the tragedy was oblig'd to be supplied by Mr Younger. And Mr Clarke still continuing ill the Tragedy of King Lear, with the Musical entertainment Amelia is oblig'd to be deferred till further notice (Public Advertiser, 21 April)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs DuBellamy. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 2 May 1767.] Charges #64 5s. Deficit to the DuBellamy's #2 4s. covered by #142 7s. from tickets (Box 314; Pit 393; Gallery 49) (Account Book). Receipts: #62 1s

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these 2 Years. [See 6 May 1771.] Paid Mrs Yates, the Balance of the Author's 3 Nights of Zobeide #237 19s. Paid one year's Rector's Rate for theatre due Xmas last #8 15s.; and Watch rate #17 10s. Paid one year's Rector's rate for House in Bow Passage 6s. 3d.; and watch for same 12s. 6d. Paid Mrs Keys for a gold and silver sack coat #14 14s. (Account Book). Receipts: #148 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Paid Mrs Rich andCo. one year's rent for House in Bow Passage due Mich. last #40. Receipts: #140 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitefield and Mrs Pitt

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jackson. Mainpiece [a tragedy by John Jackson]: Never perform'd there. Doors open half past 5. To begin at half past 6 o'clock

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With a New Scene and New Dresses. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Charles Dibdin and Edward Thompson. Thompson's name does not appear on the title-page of the text; it has been added by J. P. Kemble on the half-title of his copy now in the Huntington Library]: The Music chiefly composed by Dibdin [Public Advertiser, 15 Nov.: Three of the airs and the finale were composed by Samuel Arnold; one air by John Abraham Fisher]. With New Scenes [ibid: by Dall, Richards, and Carver], Dresses and Decorations. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 7 Feb. 1777: Paid Dibdin in full for copyright of the Seraglio #20; ibid, 2 June 1777: Received of Cooper for Songs & Books sold of The Seraglio #19 10s. 9d. [Mrs Ward was from the Birmingham theatre]. Receipts: #221 11s. 6d. (219.7.0; 2.4.6)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Crawford. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Crawford, No.3, Adam-street, Adelphi