*p1775 10 20 dl The Stratagem. Scrub-Weston; Archer-King; Cherry-Miss Jarratt, first time; Aimwell-Packer; Foigard-Moody; Boniface-Usher; Sir Charles Freeman-Brereton; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Cross; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Abington; Sullen-Hurst; Gibbet-Bransby; Dorinda-Miss Sherry; Gipsey-Mrs Davies.*a1775 10 20 dl The Theatrical Candidates. ^As17750923^.*a1775 10 20 dl The Rival Candidates. ^As17751010^.*d1775 10 20 dl II: A Grand New Ballet, call'd <i>The Savage Hunters</i>-Slingsby first appearance this season, Grimaldi, Como, Giorgi, Sga Crespi, Sga Paccini, first appearance on the <i>English Stage</i>.*c1775 10 20 dl <i>Archer</i>r by $Mr King=. <i>Cherry</i>r first time $Miss Jarratt= pretty well. Sga Pacini danc'd for the first time. She is a small figure, not much Elegance but was very well received (<i>Hopkins Diary</i>). Agreement with Sga Paccini, 20 June 1775: "I do agree for my partner, $Mr Willoughby Lacy=, and myself, to engage $Signora Paccini= as first dancer at our Theatre, the ensuing season, which commences the first week in September 1775, and finishes the end of May 1776; for which the said Signora shall receive from us, by weekly or monthly payments as she pleases, the sum of three hundred and twenty-five pounds sterling, and she is likewise to have a benefit in course of salary, and at the best time of the year, for which she is to dance whenever she is called upon, to the best of her power and abilities. This engagement the managers of the Theatre Royal in <i>Drury Lane</i> engage to fulfill on their part, under the penalty of five-hundred pounds sterling. Witness my hand this nineteenth day of June 1775." (Signed.) $David Garrick= for Willoughby Lacy and himself (<i>Boaden, Private Correspondence of Garrick</i>, II, 63). The Comedy of <i>The School for Lovers</i> oblig'd to be deferr'd. Receipts: #153 19s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book).