Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #67 4s. 6d. Daily Journal, 27 Sept.: The Gilding, Painting, Scenes and Columns of Pier Glass, rais'd for the better illuminating the Stage and other Parts of the House, gave a general Surprize and Satisfaction to the Spectators

Event Comment: Benefit Legare and Mrs Legare. Written by Dryden and Lee. Receipts: money #36 15s.; tickets #83 5s

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #18 3s. Probable attendance: boxes, 13 paid and 8 orders; pit, 35 paid and 21 orders; slips, 10 paid and 11 orders; first gallery, 86 paid and 56 orders; second gallery, 60 paid and 2 orders

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #28 15s. Probable attendance: boxes, 34 paid and 15 orders; pit, 60 paid and 20 orders; slips, 6 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 113 paid and 50 orders; second gallery, 88 paid and 5 orders

Event Comment: Receipts: #32 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 22 paid and 7 orders; pit, 85 paid and 8 orders; slips, 11 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 116 paid and 9 order; second gallery, 115 paid

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Chambers. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: With several Additional Songs

Event Comment: Never Acted before. Benefit the Author. By C. Marsh. [Tickets of the Author at Cicero's Head, Round Court, in the Strand.

Event Comment: By Ye King's Command but not (by order) in ye Bills (Cross). Present His Majesty, 2nd time this season. [The George Garrick Drury Lane MS Treasurer's Book makes its first entry Mon. 30 Oct. 1749, indicating an expenditure to date of #1,733 2s. 7d. as against an income of #3,455 6s. 6d. and that Mon. was the twenty-ninth night of performance. The Treasurer's Book carries full entries until the 165th night, Sat. 28 April 1750. First itemizing of expenditures begins Wed. 1 Nov. 1749 as follows: Paid to Pipe & Tabor to Sat., 10s. 6d.; to 2 French Horns and a Kettle Drum, 15s.; to 12 1!2 lbs. Wax Candles, #1 11s. 3d.; To Properties and King's servants, #3 2s. 5d. [N.B. The use of extra musical instruments (horns, flutes, cymbols, kettle drum) averaged 6s. per night for the 165 nights. The season extended to 174 nights; so the approximate total cost for instruments came to #52 4s. Properties expense averaged 5s. per night. The approximate total cost was #43 11s. No further itemization of these will be made.] This month was publish'd The Rosciad; a Poem, by Charles Churchill (Gentleman's Magazine, Register of Books). Receipts: #70 (Cross); #73 2s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Careless Husband; Afterpiece of Richard Coeur De Lion, both advertised on playbill of 27 Sept.] Receipts: #159 19s. (111.0; 45.15; 3.4)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. With the much-admired Shades and Transparencies, representing the Amusements of Harlequin, and the Destruction of the Pantomimical Fleet. Receipts: #217 19s. (158.11; 54.0; 5.8)

Event Comment: ["In the enchanted Island We were presented with a view of an elegant modern built house -so much for propriety!" (Thespian Magazine, Feb. 1793, p. 194.] Receipts: #229 2s. (190.10; 35.1; 3.11)