Event Comment: Benefit for increasing the Fund for Support of Decay'd Musicians, or their Families. Pit
and Boxes to be put together at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. Doors open at Five. Gallery at Four, to begin at Half an Hour after Six. None to be admitted without tickets. Tickets delivered to Subscribers to this Charity will admit one person into any part of the House. Subscribers tickets may be had of
Richard Dawson at his house near
Henry the VII's Chapel,
Westminster, who is empower'd by the Society to deliver them,
and to receive the subscriptions. The Governors beg leave to inform the Nobility
and Gentry to whom this Charity is so much oblig'd, that from June 1756 to June 1757 they have necessarily laid out for decay'd musicians
and their families, widows of decay'd musicians,
and in maintaining
and educating orphans who are left in distress,
and in putting them Apprentice,
and for Physic, Burials,
and other incidental charges #532 13s. 7d. The Books are open
and may be inspected by subscribers the first Sunday in every month at a meeting of the Governors, at the
Turk's Head in
Greek Street,
Soho. All expenses attending the meetings of the Governors,
Court of Affidavits Committee for managing of this
Concert, are defrayed by themselves