*p1779 06 07 hay Love in a Village. Young Meadows-Wood (from the $Theatre Royal, York=; 1st appearance in <i>London</i>); Justice Woodcock-Edwin; Sir William Meadows-Aickin; Hodge-Jackson [<i>Public Advertiser</i>: $Massey=]; Eustace-Lamash; Hawthorn-Bannister; Lucinda-Mrs Hitchcock; Margery-Miss Twist; Deborah Woodcock-Mrs Love; Rosetta-Miss Harper.*a1779 06 07 hay Nature Will Prevail. ^See17790531^.*d1779 06 07 hay End II: <i>Tambourine Dance</i>- , ^as17790602^; End: ^As17790531^.*c1779 06 07 hay [In mainpiece the playbill assigns <i>Justice Woodcock</i>r to $Parsons=, and as afterpiece announces Tony Lumpkin in Town, but "In consequence of Parsons' illness, $Edwin= played the part of Justice Woodcock, with which he seems well acquainted; and he plays it with great pleasantry in his own particular style of humour....Parsons' illness also prevented the performance of <i>Tony Lumpkin in Town</i>, and <i>Nature will Prevail</i> was substituted" (<i>Gazetteer</i>, 8 June).]