Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. The Whole Pit will be laid into the Boxes, where servants will be admitted to keep places, and upon the Stage, which will be formed into an Amphitheatre and divided into Boxes. The Pit doors will be opened for the Ladies to pass to their places there, without incommoding those in the Front Boxes. Box, Pit and Stage at 5s. Nothing under full price will be taken during the performance. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock (Public Advertiser). [The Larpent MS 130 indicates the intended cast, and suggests Dizzy-Bennet.] Receipts: #320 ($Cross">Oliver; Ruffle-$Yates; and Mrs Dotterel-$Mrs Bennet.] Receipts: #320 ($Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Claude Bennet, late of the Haymarket, Wine Merchant

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. [Genest, V, 120, suggests The Old Maid as afterpiece with Clerimont-Bennet; but Treasurer's Book Specifies Queen Mab.] Paid $French">Cautherley; Capt. Cape-$Baddeley; Mrs Harlow-$Miss Pope; Miss Harlow-$Mrs Bennet; but Treasurer's Book Specifies Queen Mab.] Paid $French on acct. #50; Shepherd for cotton #2 18s. 4d.; Mrs Hilman for cloaths #4 14s. 6d.; Mrs Humphreys for a suit of cloaths #9 9s.; Miss Allen for cleaning stockings #1 6s. 6d.; Licensing the Earl of Warwick and Cymon #4 4s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #181 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: [The play was not allowed to conclude, nor was the afterpiece, All the World's a Stage, performed. "Yesterday evening, during the representation of...A Bold Stroke for a Wife, at China Hall, Rotherhithe, a party of the inhabitants, who had laid an information against the performers, rushed into the theatre, behind the scenes, and seized Mr Russell (who played the character of Colonel Feignwell), and carried him, in his stage dress, before Justice Smith, at the Rotation-Office, St Bennet's-hill, who committed him to the House of Correction, for further examination this morning" (Morning Chronicle, 24 July). What happened to Russell is not known, but because of this occurrence the theatre did not re-open until the following season, on 25 May 1778. See my article on the history of this unlucky playhouse, Theatre Notebook, VIII, 76-80.

Event Comment: Benefit for Wright and Butler, carpenter. Afterpiece: To conclude with the Scene of the Waterfallv, as it was originally performed. Public Advertiser, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Wright, No. 24, Bennet-street, Westminster; of Butler, next door to the Theatre. Receipts: #267 9s. 6d. (37.11.0; 13.8.6; 0.4.0; tickets: 216.6.0) (charge: #74 14s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wright and Butler. Morning Chronicle, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wright, No. 24, Bennet-street, Westminster; of Butler, next door to the Theatre. Afterpiece: With Alterations and Additions. Not acted these 4 years. To conclude with a Grand Sea-Fightv, Dance, etc. [These were included in both subsequent performances.] The Scenery designed by DeLoutherbourg, and executed under his direction. Receipts: #276 14s. 6d. (52.9.0; 12.5.6; 0.4.0; tickets: 211.16.0) (charge: #74 14s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Staunton and Wright. Morning Chronicle, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Staunton, No. 54, Drury-Lane; or Wright, Bennet-street, Westminster. Receipts: #227 (49/3; 25/8; 0/0; tickets: 152/9) (charge: #105 15s. 2d.)