Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Afterpiece: With Alterations and Additions; to conclude with a grand View of Greenwich Hospital, designed by DeLoutherbourg. [This was included in all subsequent performances. Miss Farren was from the hay. And see cg, 23 Sept.] Receipts: #190 4s. [161.6; 28.14; 0.4)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 Years. [Bannister Jun.'s 1st appearances on the stage were at the hay, 27 Aug. and 2 Sept. 1778.] Receipts: #165 18s. (139.12.0; 26.5.6; 0.0.6)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by James Cobb, based on La Fausse Suivante; ou, Le Fourbe Puni, by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux. Prologue by the author (Knapp, 117). Larpent MS 476; not published. In 1780 this was acted at the hay as The Female Captain]. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Public Advertiser, 15 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #202 10s. (54.14; 17.6; 1.12; tickets: 128.18) (charge: #65 17s. 2d.)

Event Comment: [Edwin (who was from the Hay) was "unintelligible and too rapid" (Morning Chronicle, 25 Sept.).] Receipts: #142 19s. 6d. (142.2.0; 0.17.6)

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; PAST 2, by Richard Josceline Goodenough, altered from his unacted play The Cottagers]: The Overture and Music composed by Baumgarten. [Baumgarten used this overture again in Robin Hood (see cg, 17 Apr. 1784).] Books of the Pastoral to be had at the Theatre. [Wordsworth is identified in the playbill of 22 Dec. Mrs Webb was from the Hay.] Public Advertiser, 24 Nov. 1779: This Day is published William And Nanny (1s.). Receipts: #122 15s. (116.15.6; 5.19.6)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 25 years [not acte since 30 Apr. 1747. The playbill assigns Caska to Aickin, but "Gardner...read Caska, at a short notice, on Aickin's being taken ill" (Gazetteer, 25 Jan.).]. Receipts: #238 4s. (211.8; 25.18; 0.18)

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. 1st piece: Never performed there. [Master Edwin was from the Hay.] Public Advertiser, 18 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 76, the corner of Long Acre, Drury-lane. Receipts: #107 10s. 6d. (89.0.6; tickets: 18.10.0) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: [Du-Bellamy was from the hay.] Receipts: #159 13s. (124.18; 34.13; 0.2)

Event Comment: [Palmer's 1st appearance as Comus was at the hay, 24 June 1780.] Paid Printer [of playbills] #8 8s.; Supernumeraries #3 12s. 6d. Receipts: #127 19s. 6d. (101.19.0; 25.10.0; 1.10.6)

Event Comment: [Crawford was from the hay.] Receipts: #94 11s. 6d. (66.11.0; 26.8.6; 1.12.0)

Event Comment: [Mrs Hedges, who is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill, was from the hay.] Receipts: #115 8s. (86.1; 27.17; 1.10)

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Mainpiece: Written by the celebrated Mrs Eliza Haywood. Not acted these 6 years. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2 (?)]: Written by a Comedian [unidentified. not in Larpent MS; not published]. The above Pieces have been a long Time in Rehearsal, and as no Expense has been spared in procuring respectable Performers from capital Theatres, there is no doubt (as the Comedies have sterling Merit) of their giving Satisfaction to the Audience. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15

Event Comment: [Miss Harper was from the HAY.] Receipts: #149 6s. 6d. (147/17/6; 1/9/0)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Never performed here. Written by [John] O'Keeffe; As it was performed at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket [beginning with 4 Sept.], with the greatest Applause. The Overture and new Music composed by Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #205 7s. 6d.(203/6/6; 2/1/0)

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill lists Reinhold, but he "being too much affected with a cold to appear in the part of Arionelli, Bannister of Drury Lane Theatre, who originally performed it, was procured to supply his place" (London Courant, 6 Dec.).] Receipts: #158 9s. 6d. (152/3/6; 6/6/0)

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by John O'KeefFe, altered from his The She Gallant; or, Square-Toes Outwitted, 1st acted at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 14 Jan. 1767, and in London at the HAY, 13 Oct. 1779. Incidental music by Michael Arne and William Shield. Text 1st published by T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800. Prologue by George Colman, the elder (Colman, Prose, m, 231)]. Receipts: #228 10s. 6d. (226/14/6; 1/16/0)

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: Mainpiece: With Alterations in the Dialogue and New Music [i.e. 6 new songs by John O'Keeffe with music by Michael Arne: 3 sung by Fairfield, and 1 each by Theodosia, Farmer Giles and Fanny. They are printed in London Chronicle, 26 Sept. and in Town and Country Magazine, Sept. 1782,p. 452]. The Words of the New Songs will be given at the Boxes. Afterpiece: 6th time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. [Brett was from the HAY.] Receipts: #271 10s. 6d. (269/4/6; 2/6/0)

Event Comment: [Mrs Wheatley, for whom see HAY, 26 Aug. and 2 Sept. 1782, is identified in European Magazine, Oct. 1782, p. 308.] Receipts: #232 (223/17/6; 8/2/6)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 9 Apr. 1778]. [Staunton was from the HAY.] Receipts: #125 13s. (93/6/0; 31/9/6; 0/17/6)

Event Comment: Benefit for Waldron. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 19, Martlet-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Mainpiece [1st time in London; C 5, by Francis Godolphin Waldron, 1st acted at Richmond, Aug. 1782, as The Belle's Stratagem; or, The Female Fortune-Hunters, and again at the HAY in 1794 as Heigho for a Husband! Prologue by the author (MacMillan, Larpent Catalogue, 100). Author of Epilogue unknown. MS: Larpent 599; not published]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 8 years. The Indisposition which prevented King from performing last Friday continuing, Palmer has very kindly undertaken and studied the Character King intended to have appeared in this Evening. Receipts: #126 15s. 6d. (34/5/0; 21/18/6; 2/15/0; tickets: 67/17/0) (charge: #106 9s. 8d.)

Event Comment: The last Time of the Company's performing this Season. [On this night Wewitzer acted both at CG and the HAY.] Receipts: #135 3s. 6d. (132/14/6; 2/9/0). Account-Book, 7 June: Paid Harris for One Year's Superintendence #500, Garton [treasurer] in full of his Salary #238, Miss Younge in lieu of Cloaths this Season #200; 30 June: Paid Lewis in full for Salary as Acting Manager #200. Between 7 and 30 June various sums, a few of which are here specified, were entered in the Account-Book as being paid to the following tradesmen and others: perukemaker, fireworks maker, blacksmith [#277 6s.], basketmaker, scalemaker, haberdasher, sadler, bill-sticker, turner, harpsichord-tuner, silk-dyer, printer, sawyer, plumber, linen-draper, woollen-draper, brazier, coal merchant [#189 8s.], timber merchant [#500 8s.], stonemason, hosier, music copier, shoemaker, painter, tinman, oil merchant [#452 2s.], gunsmith, worsted laceman, book-binder, glazier, copper laceman [#127 15s.], silk mercer, tallow chandler, stationer, engine-maker, gold-beater, furrier, watch-maker, bookseller, victualler, rope-maker, embroiderer, bricklayer [#226 14s.], wax chandler [#501 2s.], upholsterer [#729]. Many of these disbursements had to do with the extensive rebuilding of the theatre

Event Comment: [Miss George was from the HAY.] Receipts: #174 19s. (123/3; 3/51/16; 0/0)