*p1737 03 17 dl The Scornful Lady. Scornful Lady-Mrs Furnival, the first time of her appearance on that stage; Elder Loveless-Mills; Young Loveless-Cross; Welford-Milward; Savil-Johnson; Morecraft-Shepard; Sir Roger-Griffin; Poet-Oates; Captain-Winstone; Martha-Miss Holiday; Widow-Mrs Grace; Abigail-Mrs Willis.*a1737 03 17 dl The King and the Miller of Mansfield. ^As17370214^.*c1737 03 17 dl By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the $Prince and Princess of Wales= [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by $Beaumont= and $Fletcher=. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the <i>Toy Shop</i>. [For a letter on the disputes between the footmen and the gentlemen, see <i>Grub St. Journal</i>, 17 March.] [There is in the <i>Bennett Collection</i>, I, 93, in the <i>Birmingham Library</i>, an exceptionally curious advance notice for a performance to be given at <i>Drury Lane</i> soon after Easter of <i>The Conscious Lovers</i> and <i>The Devil to Pay</i>, with no cast for either play in the bill. The announcement appears to refer to the spring of 1737 and presumably appeared around the middle of March. It is intended for the benefit of a Widow under Misfortunes and the bill bears the heading: Gift and Pleasure. According to the announcement, the widow has been left Italian pictures, antiqees, jewels, and precious stones; and she intends, for the encouragement of her benefactors, to make a gift of all the objects, which will be placed in three hundred parcels. Tickets for the performance are advertised at five shillings, and no one is to be admitted without a ticket. The pit and boxes are to be put together at two tickets for each person, and the first and second galleries are placed together at one ticket for each spectator. The tickets are not to be left with the door-keepers as usual, but only shewn and kept. On the day following the benefit a raffle will be held, by Mr <i>Foubert's Patent Mathematical Machine</i>, at <i>Hickford's Great Room</i> in <i>Brewers Street</i>, <i>Golden Square</i>, and only holders of tickets will be admitted to the raffle, After this entry was set, an advertisement was found in the <i>Daily Advertiser</i>, 18 April 1738, announcing this performance for 13 May 1738. The <i>Daily Advertiser</i> on 5 May 1738, however, announced that the proposed performance had been cancelled.]