Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Event Comment: [Benefit] A Distress'd family had tickets (Cross). Tickets deliver'd out for Thursday the 18th, for the play As You Like It, for the benefit of a Distress'd Family will be taken this night. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy has lain in & is up (Cross). [This month published, The Upper Gallery, a poem, neatly descriptive of the opening scene in a playhouse from the vantage point of the first Gallery. This is an expanded, revised and modernized version of The Upper Gallery inscribed to the Rev Dr Swift, Dublin, 1733.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Event Comment: [Both pieces by command of the] Prince of Wales, &c. (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Event Comment: [The same notice as that for 7 Feb. concerning Havard's illness, and hoping no gentlemen will desire to be admitted behind scenes, appears on the bottom of the playbill this night.] Went off very well (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: RRichard by Mr Brown from Bath very bad but no hissing (Cross). The Genii oblig'd to be deferred till Tomorrow (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #50 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: Written by Dr Young-the Profits of ye Author for a Charity-Went off wth Great Applause, only a little Laughin, at Simson (Dymas) for his Dress, or manner, I cant tell (Cross). Mainpiece: Never Acted Before. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Event Comment: All went well (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: For a Public Benefaction-Mr Garrick taken ill (Cross). [Play published at 1s. 6d.] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. [Mainpiece] Put up ye 8th night tho' but ye 7th (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Event Comment: For a Publick Benefaction ye Day not put or 8th or Ninth (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Event Comment: The Dr New Dress'd & in a New Manner with a Prologue by ye old Dr to introduce the New by the Author of the Hilliad. The Prologue was forbid by the Licencer, & struck out of the bills, but by Mistake was left in ye News; a great noise for it, Woodward said; as he had face to study, he had not time to do it--more Noise--I went on--& told 'em the Prologue was forbid--Noise still--Woodward went on & said it was forbid by L@or@d Chamberlain--it cool'd a little but when he came on dress'd like Dr Hill, it began again, & so ye farce ended (Cross). Benefit for Mr Woodward. Part of Pit laid into Boxes, and Stage commodiously built in form of an Amphitheatre. Boxes and Stage 5s. Ladies send servants by 3. Tickets to be had of Woodward in Great Piazza, Covent Garden; and at Stage Door. This day publish'd The Chaplet at 6d. a Musical entertainment as performed at Drury Lane. Receipts: #330 (Cross)

Event Comment: For Prince of Wales. This was to be Palmer's Benefit but bought by ye Masters for #90. Mr Wright (an old Serv[an]t) Dy'd (Cross). Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter and Miss Haughton. Tickets at stage door. [For criticism of Shuter and Miss Haughton, see Genest, IV, p. 363, from The Present State of the Stage in Great Britain and Ireland, 1753. Nineteen of the Fifty-five pages of this pamphlet defend the stage on classicial authority and moral grounds from attacks by the religious bigots, and present an ideal picture of a manager, laying under some contribution, it would seem, the character of a manager presented ten years earlier (1743) in Queries to be Answered. The author especially likes the moral of Tate's alteration of Lear. The remaining pages give a paragraph or two of criticism to the leading actors and actresses in some of their most affecting parts (sixteen pages to Drury Lane Performers, all of whom appear in the author's eye to be either "Excellent" or "Very Good.") The remaining space is devoted to the performers at Covent Garden and at the Theatre Royal in Dublin. All those spoken of fare well in the hands of this bound-to-be pleased critic. Shuter is here commended for ability to play an Old Man convincingly though he was but 22 years old, and to play at all considering his lack of education. He possesses a great fund of drollery, and bids fair to be as great in low comedy as it is possible for man to conceive.' Miss Haughton described as an actress of promise. Seems never to have got the better of a lisp, and a Newcastle manner of pronouncing the letter 'r.'] Receipts: #290 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Pritchard (treasurer). Farce went well Jane Shore was to have been Play, but chang'd on Sunday--Bellamy ill (Cross). Tickets of Pritchard, in Great Queen St. Lincoln's Inn-Fields, and at the Stage Door. Tickets deliver'd for Jane Shore will be taken. Afterpiece: Alter'd from Otway, with several additions never perform'd before. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Simson Mrs Simson and Master Simson. Afterpiece: Acted there but once. Tickets to be had of Simson, in Wild-Passage, Wild St., near Lincoln's Inn Fields; Grigsby's Coffee House, behind the Exchange; and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickenson; W. Vaughan & Ackman. black Guard Audience-(poor Mossop) (Cross). Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Morris, Gray, Dunbar, Smith. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Tomlinson, Walker, Baker, Robinson, Dawson, and Bride. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Event Comment: Both pieces By Particular Desire. The lamp at ye Alter boil'd over & Frank Heath was burnt in ye loins in getting it out (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Event Comment: SShuter having engag'd with Mr Rich Garrick in Bayes said you are a good Actor & I am sorry you have left me-a Clap (Cross). Both plays put up for last time of performing this season. Full prices throughout performance. No money returned after curtain is up. Tis hoped no gentlemen will take it ill that they cannot possibly be admitted behind the scenes or into the orchestra, the Entertainment depending chiefly upon the Machinery and Music. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: Towards a fund for ye Support of a publick Charity-(ye Lock Hospl.). King Lear & Duke & no Duke given out for Wed., 23 & bills put up, but not play'd on account of Mr Havard's illness, at 12 at noon, bills were dispers'd saying--the Play of King Lear, design'd for to Night is oblig'd to be defer'd on Account of Mr Havard's sudden illness. N.B--It was a very hot day (Cross). Tickets to be had at the following Coffee Houses: The St James, in St James's St.; The Mount, in Grosvenor St.; George's the upper end of the Haymarket; the Bedford and Tom's in Covent Garden; Garraway's in Cornhill; and at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Tickets deliver'd out for 16 April will be taken. [Cross lists no Receipts.

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber did Monimia great app: (Cross). Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Event Comment: SScapin hiss'd (Cross). [Mainpiece advertised in full as containing]: The Death of the Duke of Buckinghamv; the Tryal and Divorce of Queen Catherinev, the Death of Cardinal Wolseyv; the Christening of the Princess Elizabethv; and many other Historical Passages. Receipts: #120 (Cross)