Event Comment: With proper Decorations. Afterpiece, Containing His Surprizing Victory over Glumdalca, Queen of the Giants; His Magnificent reception in King Arthur's Courtv; His Marriage with the Princess Huncamunca; With the fatal Jealousy of Queen Dollalolla, and many other Historical Passages. [This notice accompanies subsequent announcements of Tom Thumb this season and will not be further recorded.] General Advertiser: Yesterday it was falsely and injuriously inserted in the Daily Papers, that a great quantity of arms was secreted in Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, which seem'd calculated only to Prejudice the Proprietor of that House, having no other foundation than his having the said Theatre as a Guard Room for the Service of the Government

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Comedie du Nouveau Theatre Italien. Received from Four Representations acted...#188 18s. 4d.; 56 Subscriptions at Five Guineas each #294; From a Subscription by Mr Arthur, Master of White's Coffee House #367 10s. (British Magazine, V (August, 1750), p. 322)

Event Comment: Benefit for one Monett master of ye French Comedians (Cross). [174th and positively the last night.] Receipts: #120 (Cross). Account of Disbursements made by Mr Monnet for his Stage, as well in Ready Money as in Notes of Hand. @Names of Actors and Actresses Their Contracts with Mr Monnet Paid in Money Paid in Notes Whole sum of the Expence, as well in Money as in Notes@Desormes #227 7s. 6d. #65 17s. 9d. #131 5s. #197 2s. 9d.@Mauly & Hamond #301 8s. 9d. #175 #63 #238@Bureau #257 8s. 7d. #122 11s. 3d. #52 10s. #175 1s. 3d.@Toscano #289 7s. 10d. #123 16s. 7d. #66 1s. 3d. #189 7s. 10d.@Durancy and Wife #361 17s. 1d. #147 7s. #210 #357 7s.@Parant #218 15s. #108 10s. 10d. .... #108 10s. 10d.@Terodat #52 10s. #39 2s. .... #39 2s.@Kelly #30 18s. #30 18s. .... #30 18s.@Villiers #32 15s. #32 15s. .... #32 15s.@Chateauneuf #43 15s. #15 17s. .... #15 17s.@Dujoncel #36 15s. #24 13s. 6d. #12 1s. 6d. #36 15s.@Champville #87 10s. #52 10s. .... #52 10s.@StAmand #78 15s. #26 5s. #17 10s. #43 15s.@Totals #1,919 2s. 9d. #965 4s. 3d. #552 7s. 9d.@ @Other Expences@For the Play-House's Rent #110@For the Stage's Taylor #35 14s.@For the Expences of Four Representations acted #65 12s. 6d.@For the traveling Expences of Mr Monnet, and his Residence of twenty Months at London or Paris and the Expences for the Custom-House, Law, Prison #328 12s. 8d.@Whole Sum of the Expence #2,157 1s.@ @RECEIPTS@For Fifty-six Subscriptions, at Five Guineas each #294@Received from Four Representations acted at the Little Theatre in the Hay-Market #188 18s. 4d.@From a Subscription, by Mr Arthur, Master of White's Chocolate-House #367 10s.@Whole Sum of the Receipts #850 8s. 4d. @ Therefore the Expence exceeds the Money received by #1,306 12s. 8d. which Mr Monnet is entirely out of Pocket, besides two Years and a half of his Time spent for it. N.B. The Contracts are all made for Livres Turnois, and this Account is made upon a Calculation of 3 Livres Tournois for 31 1!2d. Sterling.--And the Contracts and Receipts are ready to be produced. [This account is by courtesy of Miss Sybil Rosenfeld from a photostat of the original (which is printed in both French and English) in the Bibliotheque National. See also British Magazine, August 1750, p. 322.

Event Comment: Benefit for the General Lying-In Hospital for married and unmarried Women, in Duke's St., Grosvenor Square. Ladies desired to send servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets to be had at Arthur's, the Bedford, and the Temple Exchange Coffee Houses and also at the aforesaid Hospital. Tickets delivered for The Revenge will be taken. Next Week will be publish'd a Key to Lilliput in a letter to the Author of the Dramatic Entertainment. "Open Locks, whoever Knocks." Receipts: #266 (Cross)

Event Comment: The Profits of this Performance will be given to a Public Charity. Pit and Boxes 10s. 6d. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. The Ladies are desired for their own conveniency to come without Hoops, and to send servants by 3 o'clock to keep places. Tickets to be had at Arthur's Chocolate House and the St James Coffee House in St James's Street; The Mount Coffee-House in Grosvenor St.; the Cocoa-Tree in Pall Mall; George's facing the Haymarket; Tom's and the Bedford Coffee Houses in Covent Garden; and of Varney at the Stage Door, where Places may be taken

Event Comment: MMr Woodward has enter'd into partnership with Mr Barry in a new Theater in Ireland & has taken from us Mr Walker and Wife (Miss Minors that was) Mr Vernon, Mr Jefferson and Wife-from Mr Rich, Mr Arthur, Mr White, Mr Chambers, Mr Finny (his Scene-man) & others (Cross). Receipts: #120 (Cross); #128 15s. (Winston MS 8). Places for Boxes to be had of Mr Varney at the stage door. No admittance behind scenes, nor any money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [This notice regularly occurs at foot of bill and will not be noted further this season. The box receipts recorded from Winston MS 8 seem to have been taken by him from the Huntington Library playbills (second set) annotated by J. P. Kemble from a Treasurer's Book.] Letter to Mr G@k on Opening of the Theatre, With Observations on Managers, Actors, Authors, and their Audiences and Particularly New Performers. 6d. Published by Cooke opposite Drury Lane Theatre. [It is a plea for more frequent appearances of Garrick, especially in lighter parts, now that Woodward has left; for especially good plays on Saturday nights; for striking from the repertoire all immoral, immodest and cruel plays; for being a sport about competition with Rich; for better regulation of the boxes, on a first-come, first-pay basis; for training up the most promising young actors gradually and not casting them in parts beyond their reaches; for more new plays; and for an advisory council in selecting them; for omission of personal satirical attacks in comedy.

Event Comment: A Musical Entertainment, taken from the Memoirs of Geoffrey ap Arthur of Monmouth, that Monkish Historian. 5s., 3s., 2s. 6:30 p.m

Event Comment: By Authority [repeated in each bill]. A new English Burletta. Taken from the Memoirs of Jeffrey Ap Arthur of Monmouth, interspersed with Critical Remarks by Mess Snarler and Hum for Mr Bombast the Author. The Music, Scenes, Cloaths, and other Decorations entirely new. Prices: 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. 6:30 p.m. [First announced on 7 Sept. for 10 Sept., and deferred on account of death of Princess Elizabeth. It was adapted from Henry Brooke's Jack the Giant Queller, 1748. Published 1778.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. N.B. The Jubilee, after this night, cannot be perform'd again for sometime on account of the Preparations for King Arthur

Event Comment: For twentieth night the New Masque in Three Parts call'd The Institution of the Garter, or Arthur's Round Table Restor'd, Paid six day's salary list at #83 10s. 7d. per diem #501 3s. 6d.; Paid Mrs Abington on Cloaths acct #2 2s.; Paid Mr Vernon per order on note #20; Rec'd Stopages #13 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #142 13s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Great Applause to Mr G. House (Hopkins Diary). N.B. King Arthur which was to be performed this evening for Mr Barry's Benefit, is oblig'd to be deferred till further notice, on account of his continuing ill. Receipts: #266 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson (1st Gallery office keeper). Paid Mr Cook's@6@boys in King Arthur 28th April #2 5s.; Mr Wrighten's note #21 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #269 3s. 6d. Charges: #84. Profits to Dickinson: #185 3s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Frances Brooke, based on the anonymous libretto of Sarti's opera Mitridate a Sinope. Prologue by the Rev. William? Collier (see text). Epilogue by Arthur Murphy (Murphy, Works, 1786, VII, 54)]: With New Scenes, Dresses, &c. Public Advertiser, 8 Feb. 1781: This Day at Noon will be published The Siege of Sinope. (1s. 6d.). Receipts:#231 5s. (228.10; 2.15)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [acted 10 Nov. 1779]. [Miss Brunton was from the Bath theatre. Prologue by Arthur Murphy (Works, 1786, VII, 60).] Receipts: #337 18s. (335/7/6; 2/10/6)

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Clandestine Marriage; afterpiece of Arthur and Emmeline, both announced on playbill of 3 Oct.] Account-Book, 5 Oct.: Free list #9 5s., Orders #1 6s. [#10 11s.; 30 Oct.: Free list #26 9s., Orders #58 16s. [#85 5s.]. Receipts: #319 0s. 6d. (301.15.0; 14.2.6; 3.3.0)

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Rule a Wife and Have a Wife; afterpiece of Arthur and Emmeline, both advertised on playbill of 26 Nov.] Receipts: #63 12s. 6d. (42.6.0; 20.8.0; 0.18.6)

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore. [Afterpiece in place of Arthur and Emmeline, advertised on playbill of 7 May.] Public Advertiser, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, No. 1, Southampton-street, Strand. Receipts: #251 4s. (44.18.0; 16.13.6; 1.12.6; tickets: 188.0.0) (charge: #107 4s. 4d.)

Event Comment: 1st piece: For the 1st Time compress'd [anonymously] into 2 Acts. MacNally brought [Arthur Murphy] to Covent-garden Theatre to see [Robin Hood]; when, to the surprise of the author...the opera was that night performed as an afterpiece, having been, without his knowledge, cut down into two acts" (O'Keeffe, I, 45). 3rd piece: Not acted these 16 years [acted 12 Dec. 1780]. Receipts: #212 14s. 6d. (209.14.0; 3.0.6)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Henry. [As afterpiece the playbill announces Arthur and Emmeline, but it was not acted. Kemble Mem. lists the substitute play.] Diary, 24 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Henry, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square. Receipts: #153 12s. (38.6; 21.2; 0.19; tickets: 93.5) (charge: #111 13s. 9d.)

Event Comment: Know all men by these presents, that Colley Cibber, Esq; of the Parish of St/James's in the County of Middlesex, for and in consideration of the sum of Eighty Pounds of lawful Mony of Great Britain to him in hand paid by John Watts of London, Stationer, he the said Colley Cibber, Esq; hath bargained, sold and assigned, and set over, and by these presents doth bargain, sell, assign and set over all that the full and sole right and title, of, in and to the copy of a Tragedy, intitled, Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John, written by the said Colley Cibber, Esq; to have and to hold the said copy of the said tragedy unto the said John Watts, his heirs and assigns for ever, notwithstanding any act or law to the contrary: In witness whereof the said Colley Cibber, Esq; hath hereunto sett his hand and seal this twentieth day of February, 1744/5. [Signed] C. Cibber. [Witnesses] James Webster, John Mark Bimson. [Original Document in Folger Shakespeare Library, validated by three Sixpence stamps, and Cibber's seal. Case No. 993 among Cibber documents.

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. There is no certainty that this performance is the premiere, but as the play was licensed for printing on 9 Jan. 1676@7, this performance may well be the first one. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, pp.9-10) lists the same cast except for the ommission of Letice. It is not certain which Mrs Knight played Letice. Possibly it was Frances Maria Knight (see Wilson, All the King's Ladies, where she is tentatively listed for that role), but the presence of Mrs Ursula Knight on an undated L. C. list, 3@24, with the date of her swearing into the company given as 12 March 1676@7, it is quite likely that she played this role. (I owe this reference to Ursula Knight to Professor John Harold Wilson.) John Dennis: And when upon the first representations of the Plain Dealer, the Town, as The Authour has often told me, appeard Doubtful what Judgment to Form of it; the foremention'd gentlemen [The Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Rochester, Earl of Dorset, Earl of Mulgrave, Savil, Buckly, Sir John Denham, Waller] by their loud aprobation of it, gave it both a sudden and a lasting reputation (Defense and Defects of Dramatick Poetry, 1725, in The Works of John Dennis, ed. Hooker, II, 277)

Event Comment: Paid John Doe and John Claridge 12s. 6d. each for performing 5 nights in the Ass [in Mother Shipton] to the 2nd inst. Paid John Smith 12s. 6d. for performing in the Hog in the same. Paid Younger for writing parts as per bill #7 4s. 10d. (Account Book). [N.B. The three Johns receiv'd 2s. 6d. each for making up in the ass and hog each night Mother Shipton was played for the rest of the season. No further notation will be transcribed of this payment.] Receipts: #152 8s. (Account Book)