Event Comment: Benefit for Baker, Robinson, Goodwin. No building on Stage. Tickets delivered for The Revenge will be taken. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Several. Foley, Robinson, Dalton

Event Comment: Benefit for Robinson and Foley. No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd by Hodges will be taken. Tickets sold at Doors will not be admitted

Event Comment: Benefit for Foley, Chinnall, Robinson, Lings,and Kaygill

Event Comment: Benefit for Cridland, &c. (Cross Diary). Foley and Robinson. Tickets deliver'd by C. Roberts will be taken

Event Comment: Paid Mr Heath for point lace, 9s.; Mr Cropley (linen draper) 2 bills #93 12s. 6d.; 8 extra trumpets for 6 nights, #18; Wax Chandler's Bill #21 3s. 4d.; Mr Squire, Chorus, 15 nights #3 15s.; Printer's Bill #9 6s.; Mr Weston's Note & Bill to Mr Flaherty #5 6s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Mrs Robinson Angelica-very indifferent (+Hopkins MS Notes). Receipts: #133 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Paid Mr Weston per Mr G. Garrick's 3 notes #19 11s. 6d.; Mrs Robinson in full of salary #32. Receipts: #218 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Widow Bowers, Percy, Wood and Robinson. Tickets delivered for The Orphan and by Mr Hodges will be taken. Paid Mr Davies on Note #30; Mr Clinch for 5 days at beginning of season not on list #2 1s. 8d.; Mr Cooke's 4 boys 11th inst. #1 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #256 12s. 6d. Charges: #84. Profits to Widow Bowers and beneficiaries: #172 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miller, Longley, Shuter, Robson, Colley, and Stephenson. Tickets deliver'd by Varley, Walker, Robinson, Brereton, Baker, Mrs Hitchcock, Smallwood, and W. Ansell will be taken this night. Doors open half past 5. To begin at half past 6 o'clock

Event Comment: Benefit for Robinson, musician, and Mrs Newby

Event Comment: Benefit for Miller, Shuter, Robson, Colley & Stephenson. Tickets delivered by Robinson, Brereton, William Ansell, Miller (constable), Smallwood and Halliburton will be taken this Night. Tickets delivered by Morris will likewise be received. Receipts: #210 18s. 6d. (32.8.0; 0.13.6; tickets: 177.17.0) (charge: none listed)

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Afterpiece [1st time; INT 1, by Horace Walpole. Text 1st Published in Walpole's Works, vol. II (G. G. and J. Robinson and J. Edwards, 1798)]

Event Comment: Benefit for Rolles, Brereton, Longley & Colley. Tickets delivered by Robson (pit door-keeper), Stephenson, Robinson, Varley, W. Ansell, Smallwood, Shuter, Pillbrow, Turtle, Haliburton, Jennings will be admitted this Evening. [Afterpiece in place of The Citizen, announced on playbill of 28 May.] The last Time of the Company's performing this Season. Receipts: #240 8s. 6d. (27/13/6; 1/14/0; tickets: 211/1/0)

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Robinson Crusoe, advertised on playbill of 9 Jan.] Receipts: #194 6s. 6d. (149.18.0; 42.13.0; 1.15.6)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. 1st piece: Never acted in this Theatre. [Prologue by George Colman, elder. Monologue by Hester Lynch Piozzi (European Magazine, May 1797, p. 343).] True Briton, 12 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, No. 49, Great Marlborough-street. "The scenery destroyed much of the effect of the tragedy; for the characters are supposed to be 'steeped in poverty to the very lips;' and yet their apartments would have become a family in the meridian of wealth and prosperity. Mrs Siddons was also too well dressed for Mrs Wilmot" (Monthly Mirror, May 1797, p. 308). "In the scene in which [Mrs Siddons's] son having put into her hands a casket to keep, and she having touched a spring it opens and she sees jewels, her husband (Kemble) enters, and in despair exclaims, 'Where shall we get bread?' With her eyes fixed on the jewels, she runs to him, knocks the casket against her breast and exclaims, 'Here! Here!' In Mrs Siddons's tone and in her look there was an anticipation of the murder which was to take place" (Robinson, I, 39). Receipts: #618 2s. (386.8.6; 43.19.0; 2.4.0; tickets: 185.10.6) (charge: #211 1s.)

Event Comment: HHandel to Jennens: I have taken the Opera House in the Hay-marketh, engaged, as Singers, Signora Francesina, Miss Robinson, Beard, Reinhold, Mr Gates with his Boyes's and several of the best Chorus Singers from the Choirs, and I have some hopes that Mrs Cibber will sing for me. She sent word from Bath (where she is now) that she would perform for me next winter with great pleasure if it did not interfere with her playing, but I think I can obtain Mr Riches's permission (with whom she is engaged to play in Covent Garden House) since so obligingly he gave leave to Mr Beard and Mr Reinhold.--Deutsch Handel, pp. 591-92

Event Comment: [Handel paid Miss Robinson #210; on 11 May he paid Signora Franchesina #400. See Deutsch, Handel, 618-19.

Event Comment: At the Playhouse in Hampstead. Benefit Miss Jones Sr and Jr. N.B. That the Play may be no Hindrance to the Diversion at the Long Room, we shall begin exactly at 6 o'clock, and end about 8

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by James Cobb. Larpent MS 1050; published (pirated) 1795]: The Musick, principally new, composed by Storace, with a few Pieces selected from Anfossi, Mozart, Bianchi, Ditters and Sarti. The Scenes and Decorations are all designed and painted by Greenwood, except the View of the New Settlement, which is by Capon. The Dresses, &c. are executed by Johnston and Miss Rein. Books of the Songs to be had in the Theatre. Powell: Cherokee rehearsed at 9:30. Receipts: #340 5s. 6d. (284.5.0; 54.13.0; 1.7.6)