Event Comment: To begin at 6 o'clock. Doors open at 5 o'clock. Send servants at 4 o'clock. King of Denmark. Ranger-Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Both pieces By Command of Their Majesties

Event Comment: Benefit for Powell. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Ladies desired to send servants by 4 o'clock. Tickets deliver'd for Monday the 16th will be taken. [This was a "Clear Benefit" for which Powell receiv'd #178 8s. plus #105 from sale of 420 Box tickets, and was charged nothing for the House, Wardrobe, Drums or Candles.] Receipts: #178 8s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: long letter published in the Public Advertiser by Delectante specifying a six point program for eliminating the confusion and the "riots that regularly follow the breaking up of a full house at the Opera": I) exclude servants from the lobby; 2) all chairs to come down Market Lane from Charles Street to take up and go off by Pall Mall; 3) no chairs to be allowed at other doors and passages; 4) a pent house to be built to protect those waiting from the rain; 5) all carriages to come to the door in the Haymarket, with horses heads towards Cockspur street; 6) constables to attend and assert themselves in regulating the traffic.

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Mainpiece: A Tragedy never acted there, Taken from Southern's Oroonoko [by Francis Gentleman]. Tickets deliver'd for Alexander will be admitted. Ladies send servants by 4 o'clock

Event Comment: Benefit for King. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Send servants by 4 o'clock

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes. Send servants by 4 o'clock. Afterpiece: For the only time this season. Charges #64 5s. Balance to Miss Macklin #77 7s. 6d. plus #115 15s. from tickets (Box 463). Paid Mr Reed for the balance of his 3 nights for Tom Jones #297 3s. Receipts: #141 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Oratorio from the Italian of Metastasio. Never Performed. The Music by Sg Jomelli With additional Chorusses by Leo, Graun, and others. Servants permitted to keep places in the Front as well as Side Boxes. Books of the Performance to be sold there. Charges: #35

Event Comment: [Usual note about servants and books of performance.] Charges: #35

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Pit and Boxes laid together where servants will be allowed to keep places. Those Ladies and Gentlemen who have taken places in the Pit, are humbly desired to come as early as posible, for their own conveniency, and to prevent trouble in getting to their seats. Charges #66 5s. Balance to Mrs Yates #39 18s., plus income from 713 Box & Pit seats (laid together for price purposes) #178 5s. Paid Miss Atkinson and Miss Pope for walking 12 nights in Man & Wife; 26 Nights in Harlequin's Jubilee; 12 Nights in Timanthes #6 5s. each. Paid Mrs Warwell for walking 12 nights in Man & Wife #1 10s.; Paid Miss Lawrence and Mrs Bates 5s. each for walking 2 nights in Harlequin's Jubilee (Account Book). Receipts: #106 3s

Event Comment: Oratorio performed but once. [Usual note about servants and sale of books of performance.] Receiv'd deficiencies for last season from Morris #13 9s. 3d.; Mrs Pitt #12 6s. 6d.; Curtat #6 6s. 2 1!2d.; Bates #6 6s. 2 1!2d.; Fox #6 5s. 5d. (Account Book). Charges: #35

Event Comment: Oratorio not performed these two years. [Usual note about servants and books of the performance.] Charges: #35

Event Comment: [Usual note about servants and sale of Books of performance.] Paid Bensley's Balance (Account Book). Charges: #35

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Send servants by 4 o'clock. Last time of performing till Easter Holidays. Charges #76 14s. Balance to Mattocks #76 17s. plus #100 1s. from tickets (Box and Pit 387; Pit 22). [Charges high because of extra music (#7 7s.; extra wardrobe #1 17s.; kettle drum & extra chorus singers #3 5s.).] (Account Book). Receipts: #153 8s

Event Comment: At the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket. Places to be taken of Mr Jewell at the Theatre. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No Admittance behind the Scenes. No Money to be returned after the Curtain is drawn up. The Doors to be open at Six. To begin precisely at Seven. Vivant Rex et Regina. The Servants to keep Places are desired to be at the House by Five. [Repeated.

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Ladies are desired to send their servants by 4 o'clock

Event Comment: Benefit for Reddish. Afterpiece (musical): Taken from Dryden's Don Sebastian by Bickerstaffe. Part of the Pit paid into the Boxes. Ladies send servants at 4 o'clock. Mainpiece [by Edward Moore]: Not acted in 15 years. [See 5 April 1753.

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Catley. Ladies send servants by 4 o'clock. Part of Pit laid into Boxes

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Ladies send servants by 4 o'clock

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Barry did not act Doubtless ill (Winston MS 10). Tickets delivered for All for Love will be taken. On Account of the extraordinary demand for places, most part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Send servants by half past 4 o'clock

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Mainpiece: (Never Perform'd) alter'd from Gay [The Distress'd Wife].Afterpiece: (By Particular desire and for the last time this season). Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes. Ladies send servants by half past 4 o'clock. [See afterpiece again on 6 May.

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. King Arthur oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Mr Barry's illness. Tickets deliver'd for The Distressed Mother will be taken. Pit and Boxes are laid together. Send servants by Four o'clock. Afterpiece: Not acted these seven years. [See 21 April 1760.] The Farce hiss'd. Mrs Barry Sir Harry (Hopkins Diary). Paid Salary list #333 19s.; Mrs Abington's Cloaths Acct, #1; Mr S. French 6 days, #1 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #296 14s. Charges: #65. Profit to Mrs Barry: #231 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Tickets deliver'd for King Arthur will be taken. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Ladies send servants by 4 o'clock. Paid Supers, Kettle Drum, & practices to King Arthur #2 16s.; Printer's Bill #8 12s. (Treasurer's Book). Mary Martin to J. M. Rebow, 6 April (MS correspondence in Washington State University Library): There has not been any mention of Barry's Benefit in ye Papers till to Day when it is advertis'd for ye 23rd of this Month, & ye Play. After...ye Constant Couple, which I imagine is no very desirable thing to see so late in ye Season, therefore pray tell me if I must send ye Tickets back directly, or may keep them till you are in Town again, which I hope you certainly will be before that time; I find we are not ye only unfortunates that Mr Johnson disappoints of Places, for that it is his Constant Practice not to let a single Place, till all his Five Guinea Chaps are serv'd even if you are at ye Play House, & apply ye Instant ye Play is given out, for which reason Mr Garrick has desir'd Gentlemen will Write to him upon such Occasions, & it is now very commonly done. Receipts: #264 11s. 6d. Charges: #67. Profits to Barry: #197 11s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Dispensary for Infant Poor in Soho Square. Ladies send servants to secure their places by 5 o'clock. Charges #85 10s. Profit to Dispensary #36 11s. 6d., plus #128 9s. from tickets (Box 365; Pit 248) (Account Book). Receipts: #121 1s. 6d