Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Event Comment: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh, and C. Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Receipts: #59 14s. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Receipts: #87 9s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Event Comment: Benefit Leviez and Desse. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Event Comment: Benefit a Person under Misfortunes. At the Tennis Court, James Street. A Concert. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq. Places: 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s. 7 p.m

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq., Poet Laureate, performed by Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #60

Event Comment: Written by $Colley Cibber, Esq.

Event Comment: Written by Colly Cibber Esq. Benefit Theophilus Cibber. No persons to be admitted into the Boxes, or behind the scenes, but by Box ticket, which will be deliver'd at White's Chocolate House in St. James' St.; Tom's Coffee House in Covent Garden, and of Mr Bradshaw, &c. Places for the stage (which will be form'd into Boxes and carefully enclos'd) may be taken at Mrs Moor's in the Playhouse passage. Tickets for the Boxes and the stage will also be deliver'd at the proper offices of the theatre. Receipts: #150

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by N. Rowe, Esq., Poet Laureat

Event Comment: At the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's Inn Fields, this Day,will be presented a Comedy. Written by Colley Cibber, Esq., Poet Laureat. At Common Prices, viz. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. 1st Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. [prices regularly repeated in the bills]. For the better Decorum of the Stage, no Money will be taken behind the Scenes; and 'tis humbly hop'd no Person will desire Admittance there

Event Comment: Not acted these 25 years. At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality for the Benefit of Mrs Giffard. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber Esq., Poet-Laureat. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. 6d. And the Company will continue to act every Day, Wednesdays and Fridays in Lent excepted

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 15 Feb.: We hear that Miss Budgell, duaghter of the late Eustace Budgell, Esq. who perform'd the part of Polly on Monday Night in the Beggar's Opera, met with such unusual Applause, that several persons of Quality have desired the same performance tomorrow

Event Comment: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq., Poet Laureate

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq., Poet Laureate. At the desire of several Persons of Quality

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet Laureate

Event Comment: Mainpiece not acted these 25 Years [see Feb. 1721]. The Refusal, or the Lady's Philosophy, wrote by C. Cibber, Esq. was reviv'd at dl. There was a numerous and polite audience. The Play was greatly approv'd of, and the whole performance met with a general applause.--General Advertiser, 29 Nov

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet Laureate. Receipts: #46 19s

Event Comment: This Day is Publish'd The Roman and English Comedy consider'd and compared. With Remarks on the Suspicious Husband; and an examen into the Merits of the present Comic Actors by S. Foote, Esq. This day is publish'd in Two Volumes a Companion to the Theatre or a View of our most celebrated dramatic pieces. In which the Plan, Characters and Incidents, of each are particularly explained. Interspersed with remarks Historical, Critical, and Moral. Price Bound 6s. Printed for J. Nourse, at the Lamb, over against Katherine St. in the Strand

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman under misfortunes. Mainpiece Alter'd from Dryden by $Colley Cibber, Esq.

Event Comment: [Benefit on one-half value of tickets basis to nine ticket holders. The General Advertiser notice lists beneficiaries as Harrington (Prompter); Stede, Carr, Mrs Bland, Mrs Rowley.] Tickets deliver'd by Mrs Daniel, Mrs Dumont, &c will be taken. /For Box Pit Gallery Value Half-Value/Harrington 7 29 22 #8 6s. #4 3s./Stede 7 52 59 #15 9s. #7 14s. 6d./Carr 6 53 46 #14 1s. #7 0s. 6d./Mrs Rowley 27 77 44 #22 14s. #11 7s./Mrs Dumont 36 31 32 #16 17s. #8 8s. 6d./Mrs Bland 9 56 91 #19 15s. #9 17s. 6d./Mrs Dupre 5 33 42 #10 8s. #5 4s./Mrs Daniel .. 45 109 #17 13s. #8 16s. 6d./Mrs Hitchcock 34 58 31 #20 6s. ........./Totals 131 434 476 #145 9s. #62 11s. 6d./ [Mrs Hitchcock seems to have received the full value of her tickets.] This Day is Publish'd A Treatis on the Passions so far as they regard the stage, with a critical inquiry into the Theatrical Merit of Mr G k, Mr Q n, and Mr B y, the first considered in the part of Lear, the last two oppos'd in Othello. By S. Foote, Esq

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. Charges #60. Deficiency to Cooke #25 10s., covered by #134 7s. from tickets. Tickets of Cooke at Mr Clark's, an Upholsterer in James St., Covent Garden, and at the Stage Door. Died Dennis Delane, Esq. universally regretted (Daily Advertiser, 3 April). Receipts: #34 10s

Event Comment: There is now in Rehearsal and will be speedily performed at Covent Garden a Comedy call'd The Refusal or the Lady's Philosophy written by Colley Cibber, Esq: Poet Laureate

Event Comment: [M+Midwife, No II (at about this date) includes a Letter from Mary Midnight to David Garrick, Esq praising him as actor and even as manager, but asking why he neglects Fletcher's plays: "What is the reason that the public patience is so largely try'd, and the human understanding so shamefully insulted as it is, by a perpetual repetition of the Duke and No Duke, the Anatomist, and twenty things of like nature?" Concludes by remarking that the London Cuckolds is a scandal to virtue.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Not acted in seven years [see 7 May 47]. Altered from Dryden by Colley Cibber, Esq. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Amphitheatre on Stage. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Prologue, Epilogue and Pastoral Dialogue. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Addison. A New Pastoral Dialogue for the benefit of ye Author of ye Dialogue, Cook ye Poet (Cross). [The Prologue was on comic poetry (spoken by Ryan); the Epilogue was on the Comic Characters of Women (spoken by Mrs Bland). See published version (London, 1753 "to which is prefixed an Ode to John Rich, Esq:"--British Museum 11795 K 31).