Event Comment: By particular Desire...In which will be reviv'd that excellent Scene between Falstaff and the Prince of Wales, which Shakespear himself was so extremely fond of. (Daily Advertiser and General Advertiser). Front Boxes made at the upper end of the Pit

Event Comment: By his Majesty's Command. Benefit Mlle Violette. Eight rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes, and servants will be allow'd to keep places on the stage. Places for the Boxes may be taken of Hobson at the stage door of the theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Boxes and Pit 3s

Event Comment: Benefit Cooke. Tickets may be had at his Lodgings, at Mr Clarke's, an Upholsterer, James St., Covent Garden. At the particular Desire of several ladies of quality. Part of Pit rail'd into Boxes where servants will be allowed to keep Places

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Cymber. 6 p.m. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. A Concert, etc. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear (Daily Post). The Whole concluding with an Epilogue of Thanks wrote by Mr Paget, and spoken by him and the two children (Daily Post). Benefit Paget. Stage and Front Boxes 3s. Pit and First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Event Comment: Benefit the Lock Hospital. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s. where servants will be allow'd to keep places

Event Comment: At the Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 1s. 6d. [Usual concert formula. See letter to today's Daily Advertiser wherein Foote is threatened with being horsewhipped if he puts on his Diversions. This is part of Foote's publicity program.] Several of Miss Cymber's Friends [at the Play Jane Shore] mistaking the House for the Theatre in James St., are desir'd to observe this is facing the Opera House in the Haymarket.--General Advertiser

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master, and the rest of the Fraternity of the Antient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons. Three rows of the Pit will be rail'd in for Masons only. Those brethren who intend to accompany the Grand Master to the play, are desir'd to meet his Lordship cloath'd at the Rose Tavern the corner of Bridges street, Covent Garden

Event Comment: A Concert etc. Pit and Upp?r Boxes 2s. Gallery 1s. 6 p.m. Afterpiece: The new farce now performingG in Dublin, [by John Cunningham]

Event Comment: At Lee and Yeates' Great Tiled Booth on the Bowling Green. A Droll [long synopsis given]. To begin at Twelve o'clock Noon. [Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d.] The Til'd Booth is the largest and most Commodious in the Fair. The Stage is very long and sufficient to show the Burning of Troyv to the Greatest Advantage (Daily Advertiser). [Notice repeated 10, 11 Sept.

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Play to begin at 6 o'clock. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Hobson at the Stage-Door of the Theatre. As the Admittance of Persons behind the Scenes has occasioned a general Complaint on Account of the frequent Interruptions in the Performance, tis hop'd Gentlemen won't be offended, that no Money will be taken there for the future. [This notice appears on succeeding bills for the season and will hence not be repeated. See note on public objection to nonadmittance behind scenes 22 Feb. 1748.] Receipts: #150 (Cross); #I26 12s. (Clay MS). Nichols Literary Anecdotes, II, 319-20: There is one part of theatrical conduct which ought unquestionably to be recorded to Mr Garrick's honour, since the cause of virtue and morality and the formation of public manners are very considerably dependent upon it, and that is the zeal with which he ever aimed to banish from the stage all those plays which carry with them an immoral tendency, and to prune from those which do not absolutely on the whole promote the interests of vice such scenes of licentiousness and libertinism as a redundency of wit and too great liveliness of imagination have induced some of our comic writers to indulge themselves in, and to which the sympathetic disposition of an age of gallantry and intrigue had given a sanction. The purity of the English stage was certainly much more fully establish'd during the administration of this theatrical minister than it had ever been during preceding managements; for, what the publick taste had itself to some measure begun, he, by keeping that taste within its proper channel, and feeding it with a pure and untainted stream, seems to have completed; and to have endeavoured as much as possible to adhere to the promise made in the prologue which was spoken at the first opening of that theatre under his direction, @Bade scenic virtue form the rising age@And truth diffuse her radiance from the stage.

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow and her Son...A Concert etc. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d

Event Comment: Monday next Venice Preserved, for the Benefit of Mrs Cibber. N.B.: As many inconveniencies have arisen, from receiving Box Tickets in the Galleries, no Tickets will be admitted but in the Boxes, Pit and upon the Stage (General Advertiser). [The inconveniencies would seem to be connected with an overflow into the galleries of gentlemen with an animus towards The Foundling. Garrick was making an early managerial effort to control the house and render it quiet.] Receipts: #160 (Cross); #169 2s. 6d. (Powel)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber (Cross). And the Stage (for the better Accommodation of the Ladies) will be form'd into Front and Side Boxes, where Servants will be allow'd to keep Places, as well as in the Boxes and the Pit. Ladies are desired to send Servants to keep Places by 3 o'clock. Tickets to be had of Mrs Cibber, at her house in Thrift St, Soho, and of Hobson, at the Stage Door of the Theatre, where Places may be taken. Tomorrow The Foundling (being the 13th Night). Receipts: #250 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #81 17s.; tickets, #187 5s. 6d. (Clay MS). This charge was also set down that the principle [sic] treasurer should not know to the contrary, because it was told him that Mrs Cibber paid for her benefit, and if he had imagin'd otherwise, he perhaps would have insisted upon the same terms for his wife (Mrs Pr-h-d). I must therefore subtract it with Mr G-k's Benefit, it standing in their Books exactly in the same manner as his (Powel)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Part of Pit laid into Boxes, and stage form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Tickets and Places to be had at Mrs Pritchard's in Duke's late Earl's Court, (Bow Street), at Mr Vaughan's at the Golden Fan, next the Royal Exchange, Cornhill; and of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #220 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #63 10s. 6d.; tickets, #118 17s. (Clay MS). By her agreement she has ten Guineas return'd her out of this charge, and therefore I shall subtract that out of the rest (Powel)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive, Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Part of Pit rail'd into Boxes. Stage form'd into front and side Boxes. Send servants by 3. Tickets and places of Mrs Clive in Great Queen St., Lincolns Inn Fields, and of Hobson at the Stage Door. Cross: Ned Thompson dy'd. Receipts: #220 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash #78; tickets, #94 10s. (Clay MS)

Event Comment: Benefit for Anne Auretti. Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Seven rows of Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes. Stage to be form'd into front and side Boxes. Receipts: #270 (Cross); house charges, #50 (Powel)

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Stage form'd into front and side Boxes. Tickets and Places to be had of Cooke at Mr Clark's, an Upholsterer, in James Street, Covent Garden; and of Hobson at the Stage Door. Receipts: #200 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #55 17s.; tickets,124 3s. (Clay MS)

Event Comment: Will be presented a Comedy [no concert formula used.] To begin at 7 p.m. Boxes 3s. Pit and Gallery 2s. There will be no more Plays Acted there but this One, that being upon a particular Occasion

Event Comment: Benefit for Relief of Sufferers by the late Fire. [It happened in the Exchange on 25 March. See General Advertiser accounts.] Boxes and Pit laid together at 5s. each. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [Statement about gift of the night's box receipts (31 March) repeated. See note, 11 April.

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Mills and Mrs Mills. Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. By Desire 3 rows of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Servants will be allow'd to keep places on the stage. Mr and Mrs Mills take but one benefit this year that they may not be troublesome to their friends. Receipts: #210 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #49 8s.; tickets, #153 10s. (Clay MS)

Event Comment: Benefit for Adams, Scudamore. Three front rows of the boxes railed into the Pit (Daily Advertiser)

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell and Singleton (Boxkeepers), Page (Housekeeper), and Miss Mattocks. Tickets deliver'd by Verhuyck, Emmet, and Palmer (Pit Doorkeepers) and Driscoll will be taken

Event Comment: Benefit for Banks, Gwinn (Pit Doorkeeper), Trott, Smith. Tickets deliver'd by Massey, Elliot, Carney will be taken