Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years [and in place of Know Your Own Mind; afterpiece in place of The Doctor and the Apothecary, both advertised on playbill of 21 Oct.]. Receipts: #161 7s. (105.8.0; 54.4.6; 1.14.6)

Event Comment: On account of the great number of Ladies and Gentlemen who have not been able to obtain places for Artaxerxes, Mme Mara has very obligingly consented to appear this Present as well as To-morrow Evening, being positively the Last Nights of her performing before her depature for Italy. [Mainpiece in place of The Heiress; afterpiece of The Doctor and the Apothecary, both advertised on playbill of 19 Nov.] Receipts: #398 15s. (360.8; 35.5; 3.2)

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces The Doctor and the Apothecary, but "On Acct. of the sudden Indisposition of Miss Hagley [it] was put off and the Virgin Unmask'd substituted in its stead" (MS annotation on Kemble playbill). Kemble Mem. notes the same change.] Receipts: #218 14s. 6d. (181.6.6; 34.14.0; 2.14.0)

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2 (?), by James Wild. MS: Larpent 1000]: The greatest part entirely new, with a few Select Scenes from the most approv'd Compositions. With new Scenery, Machinery, Dresses and Decorations. The Dresses entirely new. The new Music composed by Shield, the rest selected from Harington, Dr Arne, Eley, Reeve, Pepusch, Galliard, George Ware, Hook, &c. The Scenery and Machinery entirely new painted by Richards, Hodgins, Walmsley, Lupino, Pugh, Phillips and Malton. The Dances entirely new, composed by Byrn. Account-Book, 23 Apr. 1795: Paid James Wild in full for Dr Faustus #40. European Magazine, Jan. 1794, p. 49: Dr Faustus has afforded entertainment to three if not four generations. It was first produced at Drury-lane in 1723, by Mr Thurmond, a dancing-master, and was afterwards succeeded at Lincoln's inn-fields, in the same year, by Mr Rich's more splendid performance [entitled The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus], which received improvement at different revivals of it. At the latter end of 1766 [at Covent Garden] Mr Woodward made some alterations, and it was revived with great success. It is again brought forward with applause, and recalls to the remembrance of those who formerly saw it with delight, the recollection of the most enchanting period of life. The opening scene of Tartarus . . . was first introduced in the speaking pantomime of The Mirror [at Covent Garden, 30 Nov. 1779). Receipts: #352 13s. 6d. (324/13/6; 28/0/0)

Event Comment: [3rd piece in place of THE MOCK DOCTOR, advertised on playbill of 31 Mar.)

Event Comment: Powell: [In mainpiece] Jones the Doctor, Packer [retained in playbill] ill. The Jew rehearsed at 10 (for Bannister Jun.; Mrs Hopkins ill); Siege of Belgrade at 12 . Receipts: #461 15s. 6d. (390/0/0; 69/18/6; 1/5/0; tickets not come in: 0/12/0)

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Mock Doctor, advertised on playbill of 4 Aug.

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years [and in place of The Doctor and the Apothecary, advertised on playbill of 17 Nov.]. Receipts: #161 18s. 6d. (92.8.0; 64.3.6; 5.7.0)

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of The Doctor and the Apothecary. advertised on playbill of 2 Dec.] Receipts: #116 9s. 6d. (67.15.6; 47.13.0; 1.1.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Holman. 1st piece [1st time; C 5, by Benjamin Hoadly, based partly on L'Ecole des Femmes, by Moliere. Larpent MS 1160; not published. Prologue by John Taylor; Epilogue by Edward Jerningham (European Magazine, May 1797, p. 342)]: Mr Holman having been favored by the Family of Doctor Hoadly, Author of the Suspicious Husband, with a Manuscript Comedy in Five Acts, the production of that celebrated Writer, he most respectfully informs the Public that it will be presented under the Title of The Tatlers. True Briton, 1 May: The Play was given to Holman by Dr Hoadly Ashe, Hoadly's nephew. Ibid, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Holman, No. 14, John-street, Adelphi. Account-Book: Paid Insurance and Duty on #10,000 for one year from 16th Inst. at the Royal Exchange Fire Office #136 17s; ditto on #10,000 for one year from Lady Day at the Phoenix Fire Office #112 10s. Receipts: #290 11s. 6d. (143.16.0; 10.11.6; tickets: 136.4.0)

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces The Heir at Law (Ninth time this Season [see 29 Aug.]), but in the hay playbill now at Harvard it is deleted, and a MS annotation substitutes The Battle of Hexham. Afterpiece in place of The Jew and the Doctor, advertised on playbill of 17 Aug.