Event Comment: Benefit for Squibb. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Charges #65 2s. [Profit to Squibb #13 10s. plus #85 10s. from tickets (Box 137; Pit 205; Gallery 205).] Paid half year's land tax for theatre #37 10s., and for House in Bow Passage #2 1s. 8d.; Paid half year's window lights tax for theatre #6 10s., for House in Bow Passage 15s.; half year's Scavanger's rate for theatre #2 1s. 8d., for House, 2s. 1d. (Account Book). Receipts: #78 12s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brickler. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Charges #65. [Profit to Miss Brickler #37 plus #60 11s. from tickets (Box 122; Pit 133; Gallery 101).] (Account Book). Receipts: #102 (Account Book)

Event Comment: A Tragedy for Warm Weather. Written after the manner of the Worst, as well as the Best of the English Poets, containing amongst a Variety of Particulars, curious, entertaining, and pathetic, the Rebellion of the Journeymen Taylors on the Score of Wages, etc. Neville MS Diary: Half past Six went to ye Haymarket Theatre but could not get into ye Pit or first Gallery, so stood on ye last row of the shilling Gallery, tho' I could see little, to see how ye Taylors, a new tragedy for warm weather, would go off, being the first night of its performance. 3rd Act hiss'd-ye Gods in ye shilling Gallery called for ye Builder's Prologue-hissed off ye part of ye Old Maid twice and Davies who came to make an excuse. The Gentlemen, many of whom were there, cried No Prologue" but to no purpose. At last Foote said if he knew their demands he would be ready to comply with them. The noise ceasing, after some time he was told the Builder's Prologue was desired. He said he had done all in his power to get the performers, having seen them. After some time he came and informed them he had got the performers together, and if the House would be pleased to accept of ye Prologue in our dresses as we are you shall have it." This was followed by great clapping which shows the Genius of our English mobility ever generous after victory. Left ye House after ye Farce began. [Flints were journeymen tailors who refused to comply with the masters' terms and the regulations of the magistrate, in contradistinction to those who submitted and were in derision stiled Dungs. The term dates from 1764-OED. An extract from the Occasional Prologue (the Builder's Prologue) in prose on the opening of the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket, by Foote published in the London Magazine July 1767, p. 351. Foote, Scaffold, and Prompter are the three participants. Foote tells Scaffold he will be paid by the audience. Scaffold notes that the audience must in that case be pleased at all times. Foote promises no long processions [will] crowd my narrow scenes." He assumes that any of the reforms he plans will but echo the public voice. The Prompter then calls the actors on.

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Reddish made his first appearance on the Irish Stage (Smock Alley) in the character of Etan (Genest, X, 458)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Comedy [by Wm Kenrick] never perform'd before. The characters New Dress'd. [Theatrical Monitor, No VIII (16 Dec. 1767) approved the mainpiece--"engages the mind, affects the passions, totally divested of indecency"--but thought Garrick's art of "puffing" was evident in his note at foot of playbills, "Those Ladies and Gentlemen, who have taken places for this day, are desired to send their servants by one o'clock, in order to ascertain the same, otherwise they cannot be secured," since the house, except the first night, had not been half full. N.B. This note appeared in an Advance Bill, but did not appear in the Bill of the Day.

Event Comment: Benefit for the Middlesex Hospital. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire of Several Persons of Distinction. @Receipts #135 4s.@House Charge #84@Candles #1 5s..@Total #85 5s.@Balance Due to Hospital #49 19s.@Tickets 254 191 72 #99 7s.@Money #135 4s.@Total #234 11s. (Account Book).@ [Hospital apparently received #99 7s., for disposing of 515 tickets, and #49 19s. from the money taken at the door.