Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke, and their Highnesses the Princesses Caroline, Mary, and Louisa. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [The Duke, Princesses Caroline, Mary, and Louisa present.]

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Their Majesties, Duke, and Princess Amelia present.]

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. At Common Prices

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Duke and three Princesses present.]

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [The Prince present.]

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Daily Advertiser, 13 Dec: Charles Mecklin was try'd for the Murder of Mr Hallam the Player, and found Guilty of Manslaughter

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: #173 18s. 6d

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: #17 9s. 6d. [Rich had rented LIF to the King of France's Company of Italian Rope-Dancers, which opened this evening. For a caustic comment, see Grub St. Journal, 18 Dec]

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Zara postponed by the indisposition of a principal Actor.]

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Daily Journal, 8 March: On Friday Night last died Mrs Mary Heron, a celebrated Actress belonging to Drury-lane Playhouse

Event Comment: Benefit Mich. Lally. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. By Desire, two Rows of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. [Ticket's at Lally's in Southampton Row, Bloomsbury.] Receipts: money #26 12s. 6d.; tickets #180 4s

Event Comment: Benefit Oates. Written by the late Mr Congreve

Event Comment: Benefit Ridout and Dupre. [Rich's Register adds Livier and Miss Brunette.] Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #11 19s.; tickets #104 16s

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Walter and Mrs Pelling. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Tickets of Mrs Walter at Mr Hook's, Carpenter, in Stanhope Street; of Mrs Pelling at Mr Dagley's, Silversmith, near Castle Tavern, DL.]

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve, London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 2 Oct.: Last Night in the Entertainment of Dr Faustus...when the Machine wherein were Harlequin, the Miller's Wife, the Miller and his the Miller's Man, was got up to the full Extent of its flying, one of the Wires which held up the hind part of the Car broke first, and then the other broke, and the Machine, and all the People in it fell down Upon the Stage; by which unhappy Accident the young Woman who personated the Miller's Wife had her Thigh broke, and her Kneepan shatter'd, and was otherways very much bruised, the Harlequin had his Head bruised, and his Wrist strained; the Miller broke his Arm; and the Miller's Man had his Scull so fractured that his Life in despaired of. Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, 6 Oct.: Covent Garden has given me a sort of surfeit of Mr Rich and his cleverness, for I was at [cg] when the machine broke t'other night; the house was in amaze for above a minute, and I dare say a great many in the galleries thought it very desterously performed, and that they screamed as naturally as heart could wish, till they found it was no jest, by their calling for surgeons, of whom several luckily happened to be in the pit. I stayed to see the poor creatures brought out of the house, and pity poor Mrs Buchanan not a little, whom I saw put into a chair in such a fright that as she is big with child, I question whether it may not kill her.-Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray, I, 113-14

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve