Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular Desire. Paid Lecturer of St Martin's #1 1s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #195 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Part of pit laid into boxes. House charges #61 4s. [Profit to Mrs Pritchard #68 8s.] Lent to Mr Johnston, Prompter, by order #2 2s.; Paid to James Aickin on his note #40; Paid Poor's rate (1!2 year for St Martin's) #20 4s.; Salary list #294 2s. 8d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #129 12s. (Treasurer's Book). Went to see Macbeth for Mrs Pritchard's Benefit. Got a good seat in the Pit, which was not full for half an hour after I went, tho part of it was laid into the boxes. Read the Public Advertiser of Today' and part of London Chronicle before the play began...Dance of the Furies in the 4th Act, and end of the Play (Neville MS Diary)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Arne. Afterpiece: By Desire. House Charges #68 16s. 6d. [Profits to Mrs Arne #150 18s. 6d.] Tickets deliver'd for The Beggar's Opera will be admitted. Dido oblig'd to be defer'd a few days. Paid 1 year's Watch for St Martin's #10 2s.; Reynolds Oil bill #46 4s.; Carpue (silk dyer) #7 9s. 6d.; Jennings (glover) #13 12s.; Vernon on note #21; Chorus 1 night #2 5s. 6d.; Hautboy 5s.; Salary list #294 2s. 8d. [Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #219 14s. (Treasurer's Book). At 4 dined at the Chop House in St Clements. At 5 went to Drury Lane to see the Tempest for the benefit of Mrs Arne the prettiest performer at the house...She has a sweet little voice...A grand Dance of Fantastic Spirits in different shapes. At the end of the play a Double Hornpipe by Mr Walker and Miss Tatley. We had the entertainment of Daphne and Amintor with dancing by Sg and Sga George, Sg Tessoni, Miss King, &c. Having a seat in the third row of the Pit, was much pleased as all the principal characters were well played and the scenery is very fine. Had I been later in going, I should not have got in (Neville MS Diary)

Event Comment: CCymon by Particular Desire. 28th and last time this season. Paid land tax to Lady Day last for St Martin's #34 6s. Easter offering 10s. 6d.; Printer's bill #9 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #153 2s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Mr Martin for copying Music for 2 Dances in Love in the City #1 6s. (Account Book). Receipts: #127 14s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Doors to open at half past Four. Play to begin at half past Six. Send servants to hold places by Four o'clock. [Mrs Vincent's deficit of 1st instant received #20 3s. 6d.] Paid scavenger's rate for St Martin's due Lady Day #5 1s. Paid printer's bill #9 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #262 7s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Went to Drury Lane, but could not get in. Stayed from half past 4, sometime at one Pit door, sometime at the other, till past 6, and got in at the right hand side just as the play began, and was dreadfully squeezed, but rewarded by seeing Garrick play Hamlet. The expression in his features, his eyes particularly, surpasses anything I ever saw. He is a little man, but handsome and full of that fire which marks the stronger, and of the softness natural to the tender passions. It is impossible to see his greatest excellencies from ye Gallery. Baddeley and Dodd are pretty well in Polonius and Ostrick. Mrs Baddeley and Yates do Ophelia and ye Grave Digger very well. Mrs Pritchard is great, as usual in ye Queen. Gravedigger's man-Castle. Horatio-$Mr Packer. Several parts of ye play, as it is in $Shakespeare, are omitted rather improperly...The Prince Brunswick, his wife and Louisa were present (Neville MS Diary)

Event Comment: Paid Miss Younge, for men's cloaths #15 15s., Mrs Mott for women's Cloaths #10 10s.; Mr French on Acct #25; Mr King, Glassman #8 13s.; Half a year's poor's rate for St Martin's to Midqummer last #25 5s.; Mas. Brown 4 nights (10th inst. incl.) #1 10s.; Mrs Slaughter's bill, #1 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #147 1s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Bills for Every Man in his Humour were posted to day--but Mr G. being taken very ill the Play was oblig'd to be chang'd & fresh Bills put up about Twelve o'clock (Hopkins Diary). [Also, according to Winston MS 10 the afterpiece was to have been Miss in Her Teens. See 8 Nov.] Paid Tallow Chandler's 1st bill #63 8s. 4d.; Mr Evans one year on Wardrobe Acct #10 10s.; half year Land and Window Tax for St Martin's to Michelmas last #46 8s. 7d.; Rec'd Stopages #12 17s. (Treasurer's Book). [Cast listed on playbill for afterpiece: Fribble (with song in character)-Dodd; Flash-$Palmer; Loveit-$J. Aickin; Puff-$Moody; Jasper-$Ackman; Tag-$Mrs Love; Miss Biddy-$Miss Pope.] Receipts: #165 7s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Paid one year's subscription to St Martin's Charity School to Easter last #2 2s. Receipts: #202 11s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Paid Lecturer of St Martin's #1 1s.; Lent Mr W. Palmer per order, per Mr Johnston #3 3s. (Treasurer's Book). Theatrical Biography 2 vols will be publish'd in a few days by Kearsley (Winston MS 10). Receipts: #199 1s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Paid 1!2 year's cleansing & Lighting for St Martin's Mich. last, #10 2s.; Tallow chandler's 5th bill #24 6s.; A bill for cotton #2 11s. 4d. (Treasurer's Book). Mr Crofts Chamont; very bad (Hopkins Diary). Receipts: #173 3s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Love. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid half year's Poor's Rate for St Martin's to Xmas last #28 5s.; Two extra hautboys 2 nights #1 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #187 10s. Charges: #64 11s. Profits to Love: #122 19s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Tickets deliver'd for King Arthur will be taken. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Ladies send servants by 4 o'clock. Paid Supers, Kettle Drum, & practices to King Arthur #2 16s.; Printer's Bill #8 12s. (Treasurer's Book). Mary Martin to J. M. Rebow, 6 April (MS correspondence in Washington State University Library): There has not been any mention of Barry's Benefit in ye Papers till to Day when it is advertis'd for ye 23rd of this Month, & ye Play. After...ye Constant Couple, which I imagine is no very desirable thing to see so late in ye Season, therefore pray tell me if I must send ye Tickets back directly, or may keep them till you are in Town again, which I hope you certainly will be before that time; I find we are not ye only unfortunates that Mr Johnson disappoints of Places, for that it is his Constant Practice not to let a single Place, till all his Five Guinea Chaps are serv'd even if you are at ye Play House, & apply ye Instant ye Play is given out, for which reason Mr Garrick has desir'd Gentlemen will Write to him upon such Occasions, & it is now very commonly done. Receipts: #264 11s. 6d. Charges: #67. Profits to Barry: #197 11s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Mrs Usher Alicia (very bad) (Hopkins Diary). Benefit for Grimaldi, Messink and Giorgi. Paid half year's King's Tax and Window Lights for St Martin's to Lady Day last, #48 3s. 4d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #205 9s. Charges: #40 13s. Profits to Grimaldi, Messink & Georgi: #164 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Jefferson. Mainpiece: Not played in 12 Years. [See 16 May 1760.] Paid half year's cleansing & Lighting to Lady Day Last for St Martin's #10 2s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #116. Charges: #64 4s. Profit to Jefferson: #51 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Davies and Inchbald. Paid Easter Offering to St Martin's 10s. 6d. Receipts: #160 13s. 6d. Charges: #65 2s. Profits to Davies and Inchbald: #95 11s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Advanced Mr Clinch as per order #20; Half a year's Land & Window Tax for St Martin's to Michelmas last #38 4s. 4d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #175 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not played in two years. [See 20 May 1771.] Paid half years cleansing & lighting to Mich. Last for St Martin's #10 12s.; one years' ditto for 2 houses Vinegar Yard to ditto, #1 16s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #140 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Paid half year's Poor's rate for St Martin's to Xmas last #27 10s. Receipts: #143 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: To St Martin's Charity School one year #2 2s. Receipts: #159 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Last time performing Mainpiece till Benefits. Full Prices. Paid the Lecturer of St Martin's one year #2 2s.; Mr Reddish, per Mr G. G. #6 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #161 9s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Smith. Paid one year's Watch Rate, St Martin's to 14 Feb. last #10 13s.; Chorus 2 nights (this incl.) #5 1s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #217 19s.6d. Charges: #70 9s. Profits to Mrs Smith: #147 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 21 Nov. 1769.] Paid half year's land and window tax for St Martin's to Lady Day last #38 4s. 4d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #157 6s. 6d. Charges: #67 19s. 6d. Profits to J. Palmer: #89 7s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 10 May 1771.] Benefit for J. Bannister and W. Barry. Paid Easter Offering for St Martin's one year 10s. 6d.; Chorus 2 nights (this incl.) #3 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Tickets delivered by Kear will be taken. Receipts: #135 11s. Charges: #84. Profits to J. Bannister and W. Barry: #51 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Venice Preserv'd deff'd on account of Barry's illness. Paid half year's Cleansing &c. to Lady Day last (St Martin's) #11; a Tow Bill 10s. [This tow bill came to this amount monthly for nine months, amounting to #4 10s. for the season. No further note will be taken of it this season.] Paid for Properties #1 7s. 10d. Receipts: #174 1s. (Treasurer's Book)