Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman in Distress [Concert formula]. Tickets and Places to be had of Mrs Careless in Hart St., near the Back-Passage of Covent Garden. The Gentlemen and Ladies who intend to honour her with their Company, are desir'd to come as early as possible, she being determin'd to begin punctually at six

Event Comment: During this month was publish'd The Dramatic Congress, a short state of the stage under present management, by W. R. Chetwynd. The older actors and dramatists sit in Elysium and discuss the fate of the theatre under Fleetwood and Rich. Much on cartels and the decay of the stage, and the chicanery indulged in to starve the Macklin-Garrick revolters. Probably about this time was also publish'd Tyranny Triumphant...Or Historical and critical remarks on the famous Cartel lately agreed on by the masters of the two theatres, by Patrick Fitz-Crambo. Discusses the rumor that Rich shut up Lincoln's Inn Fields for six months and for #600 gave the key to the Manager of Drury Lane, leaving the actors to starve, and the town to be satisfied with whatever nonsense Drury Lane chose to put on

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Not acted in six years [but see 15 Oct. 1740]

Event Comment: Benefit Dr Clancy. "The Day returns, but not to me returns," Milton. This Gentleman being deprived of the Advantages of following his profession; and as the writing he had produced for the stage could not be brought out this season, the Master of the Playhouse has been so kind as to favour him with a Benefit Night: It is therefore hoped, that as this will be the first instance of any person laboring under so heavy a deprivation, performing on the stage, the Novelty, as well as the Unhappyness of his case, will engage the favour and protection of a British Audience. Note: Tickets to be had at the Temple-Exchange Coffee House in Fleet Street; Tom's Coffee House in Cornhill; St. James Coffee House, St. James's Street; Child's Coffee House, St. Paul's Churchyard and the Chapter Coffee House in Paternoster Row. Places for Boxes to be Taken at the Stage Door of the Theatre. [General Advertiser, 4 April, publish'd a fifty-six Prologue (licensed) Intended for Oedipus, acted for the Benefit of the Very Ingenious Dr Clancy, written by Mr Lockman.

Event Comment: According to the news column of the Daily Advertiser more than five hundred persons attended the Wells this night, including one hundred sailors; on 25 Aug., the same paper estimates upwards of six hundred people in attendance. *

Event Comment: Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Hobson, at the Stage Door of the Theatre. By His Majesty's Command, no person to be admitted behind the scenes, nor any money to be return'd after the curtain is drawn up. To begin exactly at Six o'clock

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Places for the boxes to be taken of Mr Page at the stage door of the theatre. To begin exactly at six o'clock

Event Comment: With a new Farce of two Acts...Written by the Gentleman who plays the Part of Lothario. The Play and Entertainment being both so long we shall positively begin at exactly six o'clock. 3s., 2s., 1s. [Usual concert notice.

Event Comment: The Characters new dressed. Written in six weeks by Macklin. Put in rehearsal act by act as it came from him. Of topical interest because of the rebellion (Genest, IV, 178). Only revisals were at the rehearsals [Preface to first edition]

Event Comment: Not acted these six years

Event Comment: Not Acted these Eight Years [see 24 April 1741]. Benefit Cibber, Jr. Tickets and places of Hobson at the Stage door. Tickets ddliver'd out for All's Well at Covent Garden theatre will be taken to the above mentioned play this night. [Mrs Clive's Prologue recommended the cause of Liberty to the Ladies of Great Britain. Cibber had pleaded in his advance advertisement on 5 April in the General Advertiser.] As I have in justice to my creditors assigned over so much of my salary as reduces the remainder to a very small pittance, I very much depend on the encouragement and indulgence of the town at my Benefit. [On the day of the benefit he inserted in the General Advertiser a long, double column address to the Publick puffing his Benefit, and scotching a rumor industriously and invidiously spread that he came to Drury Lane only to impede Mrs Cibber in her performance there. In this he washes in public the linen of his domestic affairs at some length, professing his virtue, forbearance, and generosity, and Mrs Cibber's unfairness and ingratitude, citing her salary as about #700 per year, not a penny of which would she afford for his relief from creditors, or to bail him out of the Fleet prison where he languished six months. He alleges that she was instrumental in forming a cartel between the rival theatrical managers with precluded his employment by either house, and that she refused to act a benefit for him when he was in debtor's prison.

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece written by Shakespear. Benefit Havard and Berry. Not acted in six years [see 12 April 1738]

Event Comment: Mainpiece not acted these six years. Receipts: #116 19s. 6d

Event Comment: Paid Mr Finch [glover] for six pair for Garrick, 7s. 6d. (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #104 18s. 6d

Event Comment: A concert, etc. at the Great Tiled Booth. Benefit Yeates Jun. and Mrs Warner (his sister). Prices: 2s., 1s., 6d. To begin at six o'clock (Daily Advertiser)

Event Comment: Benefit for a poor distress'd citizen's widow and six children. The concert to begin at five o'clock. Songs: By the Particular Desire of Several Ladies. Afterpiece: By the Particular Desire of Several Ladies of Quality

Event Comment: At the New Theatre, Bowling Green, Southwark. A concert, etc. Benefit for a Person under very great Misfortunes (a blind man, initials A. M., now six years in prison). To begin (by particular Desire) at 7 p.m

Event Comment: Benefit for a Family under Misfortune, a Concert, etc. Prices: 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. To begin at six o'clock

Event Comment: At the New Wells, London Spaw, Clerkenwell. A concert, etc. To begin at six o'clock. Last night of performing

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. For one night only. Benefit for Mrs Yeates. A concert, etc. Prices: 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. To begin at six o'clock

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. A concert, etc. Last time of performing. To begin exactly at six

Event Comment: By a Set of English Performers translated into French from The Beggar's Opera. Nothing under the full Price will be taken during the Time of the whole Performance, or any money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. To begin at six o'clock. Prices: 5s., 3s., 2s. As this is the first attempt of the kind that was ever made by the English, 'tis hoped the Town will not be offended, that we endeavour to equal the Foreigners in everything, that may conduce to divert or to please them; yet this apology we beg leave to make, that if in our Performance a little of our Native Accent should be discover'd, we humbly hope an English audience will excuse it

Event Comment: Benefit Furnival and Sherman. To begin at hadf after six. Prices: 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d

Event Comment: A concert, etc. Prices: 4s., 2s. 6d. Benefit for Bruodin and Mrs Hutton. The Play will be decently conducted, being thoroughly rehears'd, and the Performers exceeding perfect. To begin at six o'clock (Daily Advertiser)