Event Comment: Benefit for Staunton and Wright. Morning Chronicle, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Staunton, No. 54, Drury-Lane; or Wright, Bennet-street, Westminster. Receipts: #227 (49/3; 25/8; 0/0; tickets: 152/9) (charge: #105 15s. 2d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. Fairy Tale deferr'd, Miss Wright ill. This morning Mr Obrien was married to Lady Susan Strangeways. Mr Powell made an Apology & Mr King play'd his part in the Farce. N.B. This Night Mrs Yates sent me word She could play no more this Season (Hopkins). Mr Obrien married, cou'd not come. Mr King play'd his Part Mr I. Palmer King's (Cross Diary). Mr O'Brien being married this morning to Lady Susan Strangeways [sic] after the Play Mr Powell made apology that Mr O'Brien had sent word he was not able to do his part [Lovel], and that Mr King had undertaken it at every short warning, and hoped for their indulgence.-Mr J. Palmer did Mr King's part [Sir Harry's Servant]. This Night Mrs Yates gave notice she could play no more this season (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan). Receipts: #214 2s. (MacMillan); charges: #64 4s. [Profit to Havard: #149 18s.

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company. According to Wright, Historia Histrionica, 1699, Mohun played Bellamante shortly after the Restoration

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. John Wright (Historia Histrionica [1699], p. 3): [Hart] Acted the Dutchess in the Tragedy of The Cardinal, which was the first Part that gave him Reputation

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 369. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 352. In L. C. 5@150, p. 156, is an order to prepare the stage for the play, and, in L. C. 5@150, p. 164, is another order for new equipment. Luttrell, A Brief Relation, II, 125: The 4th, being his majesties birth day...and at night was a consort of musick, and a play afterwards. Matthew Prior wrote A Pindarique Ode which was sung before Their Majesties at court on this day. See The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. B. Wright and M. K. Spears (Oxford, 1959), I, 96-98; II, 858. Cibber, Apology, I, 128: The agreeable was so natural to [Mountfort], that even in that dissolute Character of the Rover he seem'd to wash off the Guilt from Vice, and gave it Charms and Merit. For tho' it may be a Reproach to the Poet to draw such Characters not only unpunish'd but rewarded, the Actor may still be allow'd his due Praise in his excellent Performance. And this is a Distinction which, when this Comedy was acted at Whitehall, King William's Queen Mary was pleas'd to make in favour of Monfort, notwithstanding her Disapprobation of the Play

Event Comment: For the poem, see Matthew Prior,@The@Literary@Works, ed. H. B. Wright and M. K. Spears (Oxford, 1959), I, 125-28; II, 856-57

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts, Wright, and Nailer

Event Comment: Benefit Wright and Fielding. Written by the late Mr Otway