*p1797 05 18 cg Wives as they Were, and Maids as they Are. ^As17970512^.*a1797 05 18 cg The Village Fete. Principal Characters by Quick, Incledon, Munden, Townsend, Bowden, Haymes, Linton, Street, Gray, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Clendining, Mrs Martyr. [Cast from <i>Larpent MS</i>: Sir Martin Marygold-Quick; Fairlove-Incledon; Nicholas-Munden; Peter the Preacher-Townsend [in MS: $Fawcett=]; Kate-Mrs Mountain [in MS: $Mrs Henley=]; Peggy-Mrs Clendining; Lady Marygold-Mrs Martyr [in MS: $Mrs Gilbert=]; unassigned-Bowden, Haymes, Linton, Street, Gray.*a1797 05 18 cg Peeping Tom. ^As17970516^, but Crazy-Simmons.*s1797 05 18 cg 2nd piece: Chorusses-Blurton, Abbot, Simmons, Hawtin, Curties, Lee, Little, Sawyer, Tett, J. Linton, Wilde, Thomas, Oddwell, Cranfield, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Masters, Mrs Watts, Miss Leserve, Mrs Norton, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Follett, Miss Walcup, Mrs Henley, Miss Owen, Miss Gray.*c1797 05 18 cg Account-Book: Tickets delivered by $Ledger=, $Claremont=, $Goostree=. $Mrs Dick=, $Mrs Egan= will be admitted. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, by $Richard Cumberland=. <i>Larpent MS 1111</i>; not published]: To conclude with an <i>Illumination</i>, Transparency, and a Rural <i>Procession</i>. The Music partly selected, and partly composed, by $Shield=. The Harp by $Weippert=. The Bells by $Lawrence=. With appropriate Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. [Written in honour of the Royal Marriage" [see <i>dl</i>, 13 May] (<i>Morning Herald</i>, 19 May). "If we are to have these repeated Congratulations, let them be written by men of spirit and invention. The public are miserably placed, in cases like the present: between a respect for their $King= and a respect for their own understandings, they know not how to act" (<i>Monthly Visitor</i>, May 1797, pp. 454-55, which also includes a brief synopsis of the plot). Receipts: #254 9s. 6d. (84.0.0; 11.2.6; tickets: 159.7.0).