Event Comment: The Last time of the company's performing this season. [Following deficiencies for this season paid up:
Richard Smith,
Lewes,
Dumay,
Condell,
Potter,
Thomas Smith,
Quick,
Furkins,
Wilkinson,
Abbott,
Simmonds,
Pullen,
Stephenson,
Asbury,
Wilde,
Francis,
Mrs Griffiths,
Claridge, and
Sharratt (Account Book). This includes payment of half value of tickets for those who were granted partial benefits on that basis.] Music forfeits at end of season #17 6s. 11d.
Neville MS Diary: Went...to see
Cymbeline...chiefly to hear
Powell speak an
occasional prologue. Would not have gone had I known it was only a stale piece of flattery to
George. [See
The Gentleman's Magazine, 9 July p. 346: "On shutting up the playhouse in
Covent Garden at the end of the season, admission into the theatre having been denied to
Mr H and
R through any other passage but
Mr Powell's House, those gentlemen at the head of a large posse on the 17th of last month, [June] made a forcible entry by breaking open a window near the playhouse door in
Hart street; after which they expelled by violence
Mr Sargeant the Housekeeper, all his family and others; but the acting managers not being inclined to submit to the arbitrary proceedings of their colleagues, immediately applied for redress, where redress was effectually to be had, and this day they were formally expelled by virtue of a warrant from under the hand and seal of the high sherrifs of
London and
Middlesex, and the old housekeeper, Mr Sargeant, restored to his office of trust, to the great mortification of one of the champions who had been heard to say: That he had now got possession and d--n him if he would not keep it while he had a drop of blood in his body, and while there was one brick upon another belonging to the house."