Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, box-keeper, and Charles Sarjant, book and house-keeper. Mr Ross having, by a fall from his horse, hurt himself so much as to be incapable of performing, the Play is oblig'd to be chang'd; and the Tickets deliver'd out for King Lear will be taken this night

Event Comment: Benefit for Vaughan, Condell, Ansell (box-keepers). None admitted behind Scenes

Event Comment: Benefit for Vaughan, Condell and Potter (box-keepers)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Rec'd from Condell for Fruit rent #20 (Account Book). Receipts: #185 19s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: N.B.: The Cunning Man is oblig'd to be deferr'd. Rec'd Condell's first [fruit concession] payment #20; Paid French on account #20; Mr John Palmer on his note #10. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #127 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Rec'd from Condell on acct of Fruit rent, #20. Gave porters of the several Inns of Court their Xmas Box, #3 11s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #109 10s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: CCymon deferred on account of Mrs Baddeley's indisposition. Receiv'd from Condell, 2nd payment for Fruit Office #20. Paid Barrow & Co. Oil Bill #51 14s. 6d. and Nichol's bill for line #1 6s.; Chorus singers 2 nights #5 1s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #97 5s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: By Desire. Rec'd from Condell for Fruit Rent #20. Paid Wilford for 30 nights renters money #300 (Account Book). Receipts: #195 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Legg, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones. Afterpiece: For the last time this season. Tickets deliver'd for Hamlet will be taken. The Dragon of Wantly cannot be perform'd on account of indisposition of Mrs Pinto. Charges #67 9s. 6d. [Profit to each beneficiary #2 19s. 6d. plus income from tickets: Legg #84 2s. (Box 129; Pit 251; Gallery 142); Mrs Lampe and Mrs Jones combined #74 15s. (Box 102; Pit 219; Gallery 164).] Paid Bryan a bill for writing parts #1 1s. 6d. Paid Cooper (printer) #27 2s. Paid Condell for Coach hire, the last command by order of Mr Beard 2s. (Account Book). Before 5 went to ye Play...It was played tolerably well; Cleopatra very well by Mrs Bellamy, Octavia (for ye 1st time) by Mrs Mattocks, Antony by Smith, Vent. by Gibson not badly. We had ye Dances, Rural Love and ye Wapping Landlady (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #76 8s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Green and Ansell (box-keepers). Charges #81 5s. [Deficit to Green and Ansell #25 11s. 6d. apiece, covered by income from tickets: Green #134 8s. (Box 417; Pit 179; Gallery 33); Ansel #106 18s. (Box 312; Pit 162; Gallery 46).] Rec'd from Condell in full for fruit rent this season #20 (Account Book). Receipts: #30 2s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Strange, Raftor, Walker, Watkins. House charges #69 15s. [Deficit to actors #49 7s.] Tickets delivered for this night will be taken. Paid B. Johnson's Head bill 18s. 11d. Rec'd of Condell 3rd payment #20 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #20 8s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Rec'd of Mr Condell for 45 Nights Fruit Rent #20 (Account Book). Receipts: #161 6s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Rec'd from Condell for 45 nights fruit rent #20. Paid Tabor and Pipe for 2 nights #1 1s. (Account Book). [This charge occurs throughout season whenever Orpheus and Eurydice is performed.] Receipts: #192 10s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre. Received of Condell 45 Nights Fruit Rent due 8th Inst. #20 (Account Book). Paid Powell and Bickerstaffe balances due them. Paid Mrs Paddick for cleaning of feathers #1 19s. (Account Book). Receipts: #188 17s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Holtom, Miss Besford, Curtat, and Mrs Naylor. Charges #64 10s. Deficit to beneficiaries #28 11s. 6d. or #7 2s. 10 1!2d. apiece, covered by the value of their tickets: Holtom #32 2s.; Miss Besford #28 1s.; Curtat #33 5s.; Mrs Naylor #24 5s. @Box Pit Gallery Value@Holtom 18 126 87 #32 2s.@Besford 43 58 86 #28 1s.@Curtat 42 89 94 #33 5s.@Naylor 24 71 76 #24 5s.@Money #35 18s. 6d.@Total Value of House #153 11s. 6d.@ Receiv'd of Condell in full for fruit rent this season #20 (Account Book). Receipts: #35 18s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: The Last time of the company's performing this season. [Following deficiencies for this season paid up: Richard Smith, Lewes, Dumay, Condell, Potter, Thomas Smith, Quick, Furkins, Wilkinson, Abbott, Simmonds, Pullen, Stephenson, Asbury, Wilde, Francis, Mrs Griffiths, Claridge, and Sharratt (Account Book). This includes payment of half value of tickets for those who were granted partial benefits on that basis.] Music forfeits at end of season #17 6s. 11d. Neville MS Diary: Went...to see Cymbeline...chiefly to hear Powell speak an occasional prologue. Would not have gone had I known it was only a stale piece of flattery to George. [See The Gentleman's Magazine, 9 July p. 346: "On shutting up the playhouse in Covent Garden at the end of the season, admission into the theatre having been denied to Mr H and R through any other passage but Mr Powell's House, those gentlemen at the head of a large posse on the 17th of last month, [June] made a forcible entry by breaking open a window near the playhouse door in Hart street; after which they expelled by violence Mr Sargeant the Housekeeper, all his family and others; but the acting managers not being inclined to submit to the arbitrary proceedings of their colleagues, immediately applied for redress, where redress was effectually to be had, and this day they were formally expelled by virtue of a warrant from under the hand and seal of the high sherrifs of London and Middlesex, and the old housekeeper, Mr Sargeant, restored to his office of trust, to the great mortification of one of the champions who had been heard to say: That he had now got possession and d--n him if he would not keep it while he had a drop of blood in his body, and while there was one brick upon another belonging to the house."

Event Comment: A celebrated performer of Covent Garden, being very successful Last Season, has within a few weeks, distributed among the poor #400 in a little village where he resides near London (Lloyd's Evening Post, 14 Nov.). Rec'd of Condell on Account of Fruit Rent #20. Receipts: #138 6s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Majesties. Rec'd of Condell on Acct of Fruit Rent #20. Gave Yeomen of the Guards #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #223 14s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Rec'd of Condell for Fruit Rent #20 (Account Book). [The advance notice of Woodward's Benefit this day omits mention of Bucephalus (see 4 March) and lists only Cymbeline and a "farce."] Receipts: #224 5s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Green and Ansell (box-keepers). Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Charges #83 1s. 6d. Deficit #53 13s., covered by income from tickets: Ansell #112 7s. (Box 341; Pit 162; Gallery 28); Green #135 4s. (Box 470; Pit 106; Gallery 18). Rec'd of Condell his deficiency and #20 in full for Fruit Rent this season: also deficiencies from Mrs Naylor and Potter. Paid Mr Scovell for copying Music in Maid of the Mill--#3 9s. (Account Book). Receipts: #53 13s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: TThe Maid of the Mill is oblig'd to be deferr'd (playbill). Rec'd of Condell on Acct of Fruit Rent #20 (Account Book). Receipts: #169 1s. 6d

Event Comment: Rec'd of Condell for Fruit Rent #20 (Account Book). Receipts: #203 2s

Event Comment: Rec'd from Condell for Fruit Rent #20 (Account Book). Receipts: #212 16s. 6d

Event Comment: Benefit for Redman, Miss Besford, Dumay, Mrs Naylor, Curtat. Tickets deliver'd for All for Love will be taken. [The Account Book has crossed out The Jovial Crew and indicated the performance of The Beggar's Opera.] Charges #64 10s. Deficit to the 5 beneficiaries #7 4s. 7 1!2d. apiece, covered by income from tickets: Redman #32 11s. (Box 38; Pit 83; Gallery 106); Besford #18 1s. (Box 23; Pit 42; Gallery 60); Dumay #62 9s. (Box 165; Pit 88; Gallery 80); Mrs Naylor #30 17s. (Box 39; Pit 90; Gallery 76); Curtat #18 16s. (Box 12; Pit 68; Gallery 56). Sarjant and Condell paid up their deficiencies. Receipts: #28 7s

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Acted but once these 20 years. Rec'd of Condell on Acct of Fruit Rent #20; Paid Richards (painter) as per bill #115 15s.; Paid Partridge & Franks (hosiers) #60 5s.; Paid Lowe & Lewis (woolen drapers) #35 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #207 10s. (Account Book)