Event Comment: Benefit
Bridges,
Blakes and
Cross, prompter. Afterpiece: By Desire.
Mr Garrick's Indisposition continuing, we have, at
the particular desire of several ladies, chang'd our play. Tickets deliver'd out for
the Stratagem will be taken. [On this Day appeared
the Daily Advertiser a full column presentment by
the Court of Westminster to
the Justices of
the Peace against unlicensed players]: This court being inform'd that common Players of Interludes have for several years...assembled...in
Mayfair to erect Booths and exhibit Drolls and Shews...whereby numbers of
His Majesty's subjects have been encouraged to assemble and commit riots and o
ther Misdemeanours in Breach of His Majesty's Peace, and to
the disturbance of
the Neighborhood, and that some of
the players are and now contracting for ground in order to erect Sheds, Booths and o
ther places...for shewing and acting plays...&c, &c, &c...for
the more effectual suppressing of
the evils aforesaid, it is hereby recommended unto his Majesty's Justices of
the Peace to meet toge
ther at such time as
they shall appoint in order to proceed according to
the law against all such offenders as shall be brought before
them by
the peace officers, who are required to be aiding
the Justice of
the Peace. [
The gist of
the Presentment lies in
the statement]: that
they [
the Justices] shall apprehend all and every o
ther person and Persons who in any o
ther place or places within
the said City and Liberty shall act or represent for gain, any Tragedy, Comedy, Opera, Play, Interlude, Farce, or any o
ther Entertainment for
the stage