*p1767 05 27 dl The Beggar's Opera. ^As17661013^, but Player-Lings; <i>Epilogue</i> as <i>Beggar</i>r-Tomlinson; Polly-Mrs Vincent; <i>Hornpipe</i>-Miss Tetley.*a1767 05 27 dl The Register Office. ^As17670513^.*c1767 05 27 dl Benefit for $Mortimer=, $Tomlinson=, $West=, $Lings=. House charges #84. [Deficit to actors #60 4s.] Received $Mr Evans= and $Miss Roger='s deficiency #28 18s. 6d. Paid $Ann Collett= for a gold brocaided silk #10 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #23 16s. (Treasurer's Book). Went into ye Pit...$Vernon= is an excellent <i>MacHeath</i>r. I don't like $Yates= as <i>Peachum</i>r so well as $Shuter=, and $Parsons= is not so good a <i>Filch</i>r as $Holborn=. $Bransby= ye <i>Lockit</i>r and $Mrs Abington= <i>Lucy</i>r pretty well...<i>Polly-$Mrs Vincent</i>, who is now too old for ye character, and I think wants feeling...One Tomlinson, who had a 4th of the Benefit, spoke an <i>Epilogue</i> in the character of a <i>Beggar</i>r, but by one party hissing and a greater clapping, could not hear it.--At <i>Covent Garden</i> a Hurdy-Gurdy man and girl play in the whore's scene, and as the Highwaymen march out, one returns and kisses MacHeath, and Shuter says some things Yates did not, but perhaps they are additions of his own (<i>Neville MS Diary</i>).