*p1775 02 02 hay Love in a Village. Young Meadows-Bradney; Justice Woodcock-Merryfield, first appearance on any stage; Hawthorne-Massey; Sir William-Lewis; Eustace-Trotter; Hodge-Winton; Madge-Mrs Nost; Debora-Mrs Cokayne; Lucinda-Mrs Simmons; Rosetta (with a new introductory <i>song</i> composed by $Bates=)-Mrs Woodman; Servants at the Statute-Williams, Hayes, Baldwin, King.*a1775 02 02 hay The Devil to Pay; or, the Wives Metamorphosed. Sir John Loverule-Wooler; Jobson-Massey; Doctor-Lloyd; Butler-A Gentleman; Cook-Baldwin; Footman-Trotter; Coachman-Lewis; Fiddler-Williams; Lady Loverule-Mrs Nost; Nell (by particular desire)-Mrs Harris (a fruiteress from <i>Tunbridge-Wells</i>) who performed it in that place three times with great applause.*d1775 02 02 hay II: <i>Hornpipe</i>-Rawlins.*s1775 02 02 hay End Opera: <i>Aileen a Roon</i>-Mrs Woodman.*c1775 02 02 hay Benefit for $Mrs Woodman=, late of <i>Covent Garden</i>, left a Widow with five Children. By Permission of the <i>Lord Chamberlain</i>. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. To begin at 6:00 p.m. [<i>Public Advertiser</i>, 21 Feb., contained a long letter concerning the small attendance on this occasion: "One of the finest Female Singers this Country has for many years produced is now, through a Series of Misfortunes as unavoidable as unforeseen, in a State of Wretchedness scarcely credible. [Her husband, a schoolteacher, died.] Alas! she had five helpless innocent to drink of the same bitter Cup, to harrow up all the Heartstrings of a Mother, and to tear her Soul unavailingly for that Support, of which she herself was depriv'd by the Death of their Father. [The expenses of the benefit performance exceeded the receipts of the house.] Calamity became heaped upon Calamity, and she is now weeping in a Prison, over her unhappy little ones, for a Sum not exceeding #50." Appeal is made for gifts to relieve her. On 23 May, Mrs Woodman released from prison, gave a Benefit Concert at the <i>Crown and Anchor Tavern</i>, concluding with an <i>Occasional Musical Address to the Town</i> called <i>The Grateful Acknowledgment</i>, written and the music compiled from a most eminent Master by $Adam Smith=, sung by Mrs Woodman.]