Event Comment: Benefit Milward. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Hughes. Part of the Stage formed into Side Boxes

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never Acted before. [By John Hewitt.] Preface to edition of 1737: This Comedy made it's Appearance under many Disadvantages:...It was read for the first Time to the Performers, Tuesday the 15th, and acted Monday the 21st. Mrs Giffard, who had been Ill the Whole Season, undertook the Character of Lady Betty Manly, but finding herself indisposed, returned the Part on Thursday Evening. It was then given to Mrs Hamilton, who on Saturday about one in the Afternoon declared she could not do it unless it was cut, which the Nature of that Part not admitting, there was a Necessity to ask the Favour of Miss Hughes to undertake it, who with a great deal of good Nature, studied and played it perfect, tho' at so short a Warning

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play has generally been assigned to June 1669, partly on the basis of a suit--see Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, pp. 252-53, 348-55-over a scene for it which Isaac Fuller, the scene designer, states was finished by 23 June 1669. The suit also states that the play ran for fourteen days, but it is not certain that the theatres played on consecutive days in the summer. The play has been assigned to 24 June 1669 on the basis of a letter from Charles II to Princess Henriette-Anne, dated 24 June [1669]: I am just now going to a new play that I heare very much commended (Cyril Hughes Hartmann, Charles II and Madame [London, 1934], p. 259). Elizabeth Cottington to Herbert Aston, ca. May 1669: Wee ar in expectation still of Mr Draidens play. Ther is a bowld woman [Aphra Behn (?)] hath oferd one: my cosen Aston can give you a better account of her then I can. Some verses I have seen which ar not ill; that is commentation enouf: she will think so too, I believe, when it comes upon the ptage. I shall tremble for the poor woman exposed among the critticks (Arthur Clifford, Tixall Letters [London, 1815], II, 60)

Event Comment: [By John Hughes.] Never Acted before. The Orphan Reviv'd or Powell's Weekly Journal, 20 Feb.: On Wednesday last, the Ingenious Mr John Hughes, Author of the Tragedy call'd the Siege of Damascus, died without seeing it acted

Event Comment: [Text by John Hughes. Music by John Galliard.] Never Performed before. Admission as 24 Nov. 1711, but Benches in the Pit rail'd in at the Price of the Boxes. At 6 p.m

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By John Hughes.] A New Musical Masque, perform'd all in English. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Event Comment: [Music by Galliard. Text by Hughes. Performed in English.] Receipts: #99 2s

Event Comment: Written by the late John Hughes

Event Comment: Benefit Quin. Not Acted these Twelve Years. Written by the late Mr Hughes. Receipts: money #116 7s.; tickets #102 13s

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Hughes. Receipts: #103 14s

Event Comment: Benefit Neale and Mrs Vincent. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Hughes. Receipts: money #28 15s. 6d.; tickets #85 16s. Tickets at Neale's, a Silk Dyer, in David Street, near Grosvenor Square

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq. [For Occasional Prompter XVI, see Daily Journal, 14 Jan.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Hughes, Esq.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Hughes, Esq.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq. Afterpiece: a New Dramatick Tale. Written by the Author of the Toy Shop [R. Dodsley]

Event Comment: Benefit the Daughter of the late Mr Mills. Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Hughes, Esq.

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq. London Evening Post, 28 Jan.: It's remarkable that the new Comedy call'd The Nest of Plays...and the new Farce call'd The Coffee House...and which are the two first that have been perform'd since the Act of Parliament took Place, obliging all Plays, Farces, &c. to be licens'd before play'd, were both damn'd by the Town

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq