Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross); #164 5s. (Powel)

Event Comment: CCross: Mr Garrick first play'd Jaffier very fine-G: Applause. Genest, IV, 237: Barry's figure was pleasing and commanding in Pierre beyond description; but in a critical view he was not suited to the character. Receipts: #195 (Cross); #190 11s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross); #135 7s. (Powel)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #130 (Cross); #136 8s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #80 (Cross); #110 15s. (Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross); #176 17s. 4d. (Powel)

Event Comment: (FFast Day) (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross); #169 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross); #156 13s. (Powel)

Event Comment: CCross: There was a report, that my Lord Hubbard had made a party this night to hiss The Foundling off Stage, that ye Reason was it ran too long, & they wanted variety of Entertainments. Mr Garrick was sent for, he met 'em, & so far prevail'd that they promis'd peace 'till after the 9th night. However there was an attempt made by one Catcall, & an apple Thrown at Macklin & some other Efforts made by a few but without effect--Greatly hiss'd wn given out I believe the main cause of this anger, in spite of their Excuses, was their being refus'd admittance behind the Scenes. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #184 1s. 6d. [Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross); #144 7s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: CCross: Benefit for ye Author. Mr Garrick order'd ye foundling to be given out for Sat: & as you like it for Mon: But ye Pit rose, & insisted ye Foundling shou'd be given out again for Monday, wch was done, tho; ye Lords who oppos'd it were in ye House. [Horace Walpole's account of the affair Foundling to Sir Horace Mann, in a letter of 11 March 1748 (ed. Cunningham, II, 106) runs as follows: "There has been a new comedy call'd The Foundling; far from good, but it took. Lord Hobart and some young men made a party to damn it, merely for the love of damnation. The Templars espoused the play, and went aamed with syringes charg'd with stinking oil, and with sticking plaisters for Bubby's fair hair; but it did not come to action. Garrick was impertinent, and the pretty men gave over their plot the moment they grew to be in the right."] Receipts: #170 (Cross); house charges #63 (Powel); cash #168 10s. 6d.; tickets #18 5s. (Clay MS)

Event Comment: CCross: The Foundling--a little Hissing but nothing to signifie. Receipts: #180 (Cross); #182 2s. (Powel)

Event Comment: On Thursday next Hamlet, the part of Hamlet by Barry. And on Saturday the Foundling. N.B.: All Places taken by Ladies and Gentlemen for the Foundling this night [Tuesday] will be continued for Saturday, unless notice is given to the contrary (General Advertiser). This play was for the benefit of Mr Garrick, clear of all charges; and therefore I shall at the end of the account subtract this sum from the total amount, it being return'd him again. And the reason of entering it among the rest of the sums was, because the principle [sic] treasurer should know nothing of the matter; and therefore as it stands in their books in the same manner as above, I think it proper to set it down here (Powel). Receipts: #200 (Cross); #193 16s. (Powel)

Event Comment: [The notice of 1 March concerning The Foundling is repeated.] Receipts: #70 (Cross); #108 10s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Monday next Venice Preserved, for the Benefit of Mrs Cibber. N.B.: As many inconveniencies have arisen, from receiving Box Tickets in the Galleries, no Tickets will be admitted but in the Boxes, Pit and upon the Stage (General Advertiser). [The inconveniencies would seem to be connected with an overflow into the galleries of gentlemen with an animus towards The Foundling. Garrick was making an early managerial effort to control the house and render it quiet.] Receipts: #160 (Cross); #169 2s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Part of Pit laid into Boxes, and stage form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Tickets and Places to be had at Mrs Pritchard's in Duke's late Earl's Court, (Bow Street), at Mr Vaughan's at the Golden Fan, next the Royal Exchange, Cornhill; and of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #220 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #63 10s. 6d.; tickets, #118 17s. (Clay MS). By her agreement she has ten Guineas return'd her out of this charge, and therefore I shall subtract that out of the rest (Powel)

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #163 6s. (Powel)

Event Comment: Benefit for Macklin. Afterpiece: A Farce in 2 Acts taken [by Macklin] from Le Legataire Universel of Mons Regnard. Tickets of Macklin at his house in Bow Street, and of Hobson at the Stage Door. Stage will be form'd into front and side boxes. Receipts: #200 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel)

Event Comment: Benefit for Anne Auretti. Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Seven rows of Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes. Stage to be form'd into front and side Boxes. Receipts: #270 (Cross); house charges, #50 (Powel)

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Stage form'd into front and side Boxes. Tickets and Places to be had of Cooke at Mr Clark's, an Upholsterer, in James Street, Covent Garden; and of Hobson at the Stage Door. Receipts: #200 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #55 17s.; tickets,124 3s. (Clay MS)

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Mainpiece: For the last time this season. Afterpiece: By Desire. Stage form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Tickets deliver'd out for The Recruiting Officer will be taken. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Powel: Rec'd of Mrs Rudd, Fruit Woman, in Part #9. Receipts: #240 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #78 15s. 6d.; tickets, #99 2s. (Clay MS)

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard and Mrs Havard. Tickets and places of Hobson at the stage door. Being the last time but one of Acting till the Holidays. [The following financial analysis appears in the page reproduced from the Clay MS, in the Oct. 1926 issue of the Connoisseur, p. 93.] @Cash #101 17s.@Tickets #61 6s.@#163 3s.@Stage #15 17s.@#3 1s. 6d.@#18 18s. 6d.@ Receipts: #170 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross); #112 3s. [Powel)

Event Comment: Benefit for Blakes. Tickets and places of Blakes at his house in Cranbourne Alley, Leicester Fields, and of Hobson at the stage door. Les Messieurs & Dames peuvent laisser Diner leurs Domestiques car a quatre Heur sera assez a bonne heur de les Envoyer pour Gardez les places dans les loges. M. Fanfaron (General Advertiser). [The General Advertiser this day also included the first announcement of Mrs Macklin's benefit to be held on 22 April, at which would be perform'd the Lover's Melancholy, "Not acted these Hundred years," together with a new farce (never acted) called The Club of Fortune Hunters. The notice ran again several times, followed by the letters to the author of the General Advertiser noted on 19 and 23 April.] Receipts: #111 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash, #58 6s.; tickets, #52 15s. (Clay MS)