*p1796 06 08 dl The Purse. ^As17960530^, but Sally (1st time)-Miss Leak.*a1796 06 08 dl The Merry Wives of Windsor. Sir John Falstaff-Palmer; Fenton-Trueman; Shallow-Waldron; Slender (1st time)-Russell; Mr Page-Packer; Mr Ford-Wroughton; Sir Hugh Evans (1st time)-Dodd; Dr Caius-Wewitzer; Host of the Garter-Moody; Bardolph-Hollingsworth; Pistol-R. Palmer; Nym-Webb; Robin-Master Kean; Simple-Burton; Mrs Page-Miss Pope; Mrs Ford (1st time)-Mrs Goodall; Mrs Ann Page (1st time)-Miss Heard; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Hopkins.*a1796 06 08 dl The Gentle Shepherd. Sir William Worthy-Aickin; Patie (1st time)-Miss DeCamp; Roger-Dignum; Symon-Moody; Glaud-Suett; Bauldy-Dodd; Peggy (1st time)-Miss Leak; Jenny (1st time)-Miss Mellon; Mause-Mrs Booth; Madge-Miss Tidswell.*c1796 06 08 dl Benefit for $Burton=, $Miss Heard=, $Miss Tidswell=, & $Mrs Bramwell=. [2nd piece: With alterations by $John Philip Kemble=.] 3rd piece: Not acted these 6 years. "Of [$Wroughton='s] comedy something favourably must be said. His personations are usually natural, easy, and spirited; he is perhaps too locomotive: he cannot bear to stand still...To this peculiar bustle of his motion may be attributed much of his success in <i>Sir John Restless</i>r [in <i>All in the Wrong</i>]...For the same reason, no man can play <i>Ford</i>r with half the effect Wroughton does" (<i>Monthly Mirror</i>, Mar. 1796, p. 304). <i>Morning Herald</i>, 30 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Heard, No. 43, <i>Haymarket</i> [others not listed]. Receipts: #337 6s. 6d. (30.13.0; 40.16.6; 3.4.6; tickets: 260.10.0; odd money: 2.2.6) (charge: #202 11s.).