Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. Benefit Mrs Porter. Pit and Front Boxes together at 5s. Receipts: money #153 4s. 6d.; tickets #104 15s. [The Duke, Princess Caroline, and two youngest Princesses present.]

Event Comment: [This Pastoral Serenata first appeared 21 March 1744 at the Crown and Anchor in the Strand, qv. At that time Beard, Savage, Mrs Clive and Miss Edwards sang in it.] By Subscription for three nights will be performed an English Pastoral Serenata, set to Music by Mr DeFesch. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. On the 20th of March and 3rd of April will be performed a New Oratorio call'd Joseph, also set to Music by Mr DeFesch. For the encouragement of such persons as shall please to favour Mr Defesch by subscribing one Guinea, they shall be entitled to six tickets, each of which will admit one into the boxes, or Two into the Gallery. Nobody to be admitted into the boxes without printed tickets, which will be deliver'd at the theatre. Subscriptions to be taken till the 5th of March, at Mr DeFesch's at the sign of the Angel and Trumpet, in St. Martin's Lane, at the Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden; and at Mr Page's Stage Door-keeper. To begin at half an hour after six. This day is publish'd Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John. [No price given, but the 1st edition lists it as 1s. 6d. Watts would have had to sell about two thousand copies to cover his investment in copyright and printing costs.

Event Comment: Receipts: #57 2s. 6d. [As against the estimated charges for a night (#35 19s. 8d.), the first night's bill for fixed charges came to #36 7s. 1d., but included two days' bills, two days' billstickers, and six advertisements. In addition, paid Lambert (scene painter) three months' salary due 16 Aug. last, #25 (Account Book).

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Foundling, advertised on playbill of 12 Feb.] Powell: Alexander 's car was completed, and drawn by two elephants, and accompanied by Darius ' car, drawn by three white horses, and another car laden with trophies, drawn by soldiers all of which [were] totally covered with burnished gold and silver...The Procession was still but indifferently conducted. New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Morning Chronicle, 18 Oct. 1794: Two hundred soldiers are to be employed in the spectacle; each of their dresses is estimated at #5. Account-Book: Paid Miller in full for music in Alexander the Great #30. Receipts: #263 11s. (173.16.6; 86.13.0; 3.1.6)

Event Comment: James Brydges, Diary: I set Mr Bullock down at ye Playhouse, & came home (Huntington MS St 26). John Dryden wrote to Mrs Steward on 23 Feb. [1699@1700, but possibly 1698@99, as the letter concerns theatrical affairs of the autumn and winter of 1698-99]: The Poem of The Confederates [see The Island Princess, November 1698] some think to be Mr Walsh: the copies are both lik'd. And there are really two factions of ladyes, for the two play-houses. If you do not understand the names of some persons mention'd I can help you to the knowledge of them. You know, Sir Tho. Skipwith is master of the play-house in Drury-Lane; and my Lord Scarsdale is the patron of Betterton's house, being in love with somebody there [presumably Anne Bracegirdle] (The Letters of John Dryden, p. 133)

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. N.B. The Boxes, not being equal to the great Demand for Places, by particular Desire, two Rowes of the Pit will be Rail'd into the Boxes; and two large Side-Boxes will be form'd on the Stage for the Accommodation of Ladies only

Event Comment: [Text by Haym.] Admission as 30 Nov. 1725. The King and the three Princesses present

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command.Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. The King, Queen, Prince William, and three Princesses present

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. The Prince and three Princesses present. Receipts: #159 16s. Probable attendance: boxes, 175 paid and 26 orders; stage, 17 paid; pit, 294 paid and 5 orders; slips, 24 paid and 31 orders; first gallery, 401 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 138 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #74 7s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 66 paid and 31 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 167 paid and 23 orders; slips, 5 paid and 19 orders; first gallery, 218 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 127 paid and 2 orders. Prince and Three Princesses present

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Duke and three Princesses present.]

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Stage enclos'd and form'd into an amphitheatre. Send servants by three o'clock

Event Comment: Written by Mr Dryden. Benefit Quin. By command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. For the better accomodation of the ladies, the stage will be enclos'd and form'd into an Amphitheatre, where servants will be allow'd to keep places. Ladies send servants by three

Event Comment: Benefit Beard. Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Afterpiece: By Command a Ballad Farce not acted these 3 years [see 30 Nov. 1742]. Amphitheatre on Stage. Send servants by three. Tickets to be had of Beard in Red Lion Square

Event Comment: By Command. Ladies desired to send servants to keep places by three o'clock (General Advertiser). Present the Prince and Princess of Wales (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #192 4s

Event Comment: Benefit Barry. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Ladies send servants by three. Tickets at his lodgings in Bow St

Event Comment: A Free Benefit for Garrick. By Command of Prince and Princess of Wales. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s. An Amphitheatre on stage. Total receipts: #274 17s., of which #189 came from his tickets (Account Books. Egerton 2268). Characters All New Dress'd. For the better accommodation of the company attendance will be given at the Pit Doors. To prevent mistakes Ladies are desired to send their servants by three o'clock. Tickets deliver'd out for the 6th of last month will be taken

Event Comment: Benefit for Quin. Play By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, Prince William, the Lady Augusta, and Lady Elizabeth. In which will be reviv'd a scene not acted these 30 years. Five rows of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes, and for the better Accomodation of the Ladies the Stage will be enclos'd and formed into an Amphitheatre, where servants will be allowed to keep places. Ladies are desired to send servants to keep places at three o'clock

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Play By Command of Prince & Princess of Wales. Play taken from the French of M de Voltaire. Never acted there before.' Pit and boxes to be laid together, where the Ladies and Gentlemen will be admitted as at the Oratorios. And for the better accommodation of the Ladies the Stage will be form'd into an amphitheatre (with particular care to keep it warm) where servants will be allowed to keep places, as also in the Pit. Ladies send servants by three o'clock