*p1768 06 04 cg Cymbeline. ^As17671231^, but <i>New Occasional Prologue</i>-Powell.*a1768 06 04 cg Midas. ^As17671205^.*d1768 06 04 cg III: <i>The Highland Reel</i>, ^as17680307^.*c1768 06 04 cg The Last time of the company's performing this season. [Following deficiencies for this season paid up: $Richard Smith=, $Lewes=, $Dumay=, $Condell=, $Potter=, $Thomas Smith=, $Quick=, $Furkins=, $Wilkinson=, $Abbott=, $Simmonds=, $Pullen=, $Stephenson=, $Asbury=, $Wilde=, $Francis=, $Mrs Griffiths=, $Claridge=, and $Sharratt= (Account Book). This includes payment of half value of tickets for those who were granted partial benefits on that basis.] Music forfeits at end of season #17 6s. 11d. <i>Neville MS Diary</i>: Went...to see <i>Cymbeline</i>...chiefly to hear $Powell= speak an <i>occasional prologue</i>. Would not have gone had I known it was only a stale piece of flattery to $George=. [See <i>The Gentleman's Magazine</i>, 9 July p. 346: "On shutting up the playhouse in <i>Covent Garden</i> at the end of the season, admission into the theatre having been denied to $Mr H = and $R = through any other passage but $Mr Powell's House=, those gentlemen at the head of a large posse on the 17th of last month, [June] made a forcible entry by breaking open a window near the playhouse door in <i>Hart street</i>; after which they expelled by violence $Mr Sargeant= the Housekeeper, all his family and others; but the acting managers not being inclined to submit to the arbitrary proceedings of their colleagues, immediately applied for redress, where redress was effectually to be had, and this day they were formally expelled by virtue of a warrant from under the hand and seal of the high sherrifs of <i>London</i> and <i>Middlesex</i>, and the old housekeeper, Mr Sargeant, restored to his office of trust, to the great mortification of one of the champions who had been heard to say: That he had now got possession and d--n him if he would not keep it while he had a drop of blood in his body, and while there was one brick upon another belonging to the house."]