Event Comment: [Written by Lewis Theobald. Set to Music by Galliard.] The Entertainment being entirely new Dress'd: With New Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s. Receipts: #216 12s. Probable attendance: boxes, 269 paid; stage, 1 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 274 paid and 4 orders; slips, 54 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 456 paid; second gallery, 195 paid. Mist's, 18 Feb.: It is of the Nature of Pantomimes, partly grotesque, and partly vocal, but far exceeds all ever yet shewn, in the Magnificence and Beauty of the Scenes, the Number and Richness of the Habits, as well as the Fable, which is purely poetical, as the Italian Operas ought to be. [See also London Journal, 18 Feb.

Event Comment: Receipts: #205 2s. Benefit J. Rich. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 524 paid and 4 orders; slips, 44 paid; first gallery, 422 paid and 1 orders; second gallery, 193 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #210 6s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 531 paid and 5 orders; slips, 61 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 436 paid; second gallery, 188 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 16s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 510 paid and 16 orders; slips, 48 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 424 paid; second gallery, 191 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #204 12s. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 521 paid and 5 orders; stage, 1 paid; slips, 50 paid; first gallery, 425 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 188 paid

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [Author unknown. Apparenyly not published.] By Reason of the Length of the Entertainment...the Savage is...to be Acted with it; and, for Brevity, will be presented without Prologue or Epilogue. Receipts: #198 7s. 6d. Benefit J. Rich. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 516 paid and 6 orders; slips, 47 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 400 paid; second gallery, 180 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #191 10s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 494 paid and 1 order; stage, 2 paid; slips, 38 paid; first gallery, 393 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 182 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #181 18s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 470 paid and 15 orders; stage, 3 paid; slips, 34 paid; first gallery, 360 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 189 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #37 11s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 34 paid and 6 orders; pit, 78 paid and 16 orders; slips, 16 paid; first gallery, 92 paid; second gallery, 95 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 14s. Probable attendance: boxes, 239 paid and 7 orders; stage, 9 paid; pit, 292 paid; slips, 48 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 419 paid; second gallery, 162 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #171 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 321 paid and 1 order; stage, 20 paid; pit, 282 paid and 1 order; slips, 62 paid; first gallery, 430 paid; second gallery, 181 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #164 8s. Probable attendance: boxes, 300 paid and 2 orders; stage, 15 paid; balcony, 5 paid; pit, 270 paid; slips, 57 paid; first gallery, 436 paid; second gallery, 189 paid and 3 orders

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 11s.Probable attendance: boxes, 220 paid and 5 orders; stage, 14 paid; balcony, 3 paid; pit, 280 paid; slips, 61 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 427 paid; second gallery, 180 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #158 13s. Probable attendance: boxes, 212 paid and 3 orders; stage, 26 paid; balcony, 3 paid; pit, 287 paid; slips, 48 paid; first gallery, 410 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 195 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #179 4s. Probable attendance: boxes, 214 paid and 1 order; stage, 51 paid; pit, 297 paid and 2 orders; slips, 66 paid; first gallery, 426 paid; second gallery, 198 paid. [For a letter on this play, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 30 March.

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 22 Jan.: Last Saturday Night his Majesty, his Royal Highness the Duke, the Princesses, with several Foreign Ministers and their Ladies, were at [cg]: So great a Concourse of People came in order to see his Majesty there, as has scarcely been seen; many Persons who came to the Play-House at Four o'Clock, offering any Price, if they could possibly be admitted. In the Fury Dance of Macbeth, Mr Haughton had the misfortune to dislocate his Ankle-Bone, and fell down upon the Stage, and was obliged to be carried off; upon which his Majesty was graciously Pleased to send him Ten Guineas instantly, and to order him to be taken Care of

Event Comment: Benefit Bridges, Blakes and Cross, prompter. Afterpiece: By Desire. Mr Garrick's Indisposition continuing, we have, at the particular desire of several ladies, chang'd our play. Tickets deliver'd out for the Stratagem will be taken. [On this Day appeared the Daily Advertiser a full column presentment by the Court of Westminster to the Justices of the Peace against unlicensed players]: This court being inform'd that common Players of Interludes have for several years...assembled...in Mayfair to erect Booths and exhibit Drolls and Shews...whereby numbers of His Majesty's subjects have been encouraged to assemble and commit riots and other Misdemeanours in Breach of His Majesty's Peace, and to the disturbance of the Neighborhood, and that some of the players are and now contracting for ground in order to erect Sheds, Booths and other places...for shewing and acting plays...&c, &c, &c...for the more effectual suppressing of the evils aforesaid, it is hereby recommended unto his Majesty's Justices of the Peace to meet together at such time as they shall appoint in order to proceed according to the law against all such offenders as shall be brought before them by the peace officers, who are required to be aiding the Justice of the Peace. [The gist of the Presentment lies in the statement]: that they [the Justices] shall apprehend all and every other person and Persons who in any other place or places within the said City and Liberty shall act or represent for gain, any Tragedy, Comedy, Opera, Play, Interlude, Farce, or any other Entertainment for the stage

Event Comment: GGeneral Advertiser: Yesterday Morning a Colonel's Guard (by Order) Marched to the Playhouse in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where they are to Continue, in order to be ready to quell any Disturbances that may happen from the Adherents of the Pretender, and the enemies of our present Happy Establishment. The Penny London Post, 7-9 Oct.: On Sunday morning early a party of Guards were detached from Whitehall to the New Playhouse in Lincoln's Inn Fields, of which they took possession; and soon after it was rumored that his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State had received intelligence that a great quantity of amunition & arms were secreted there for the use of the Pretender and his adherents; but whether they were found we know not: however a company of the 2nd regiment went on duty there that night