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Event Comment: At the Desire of several of the Inhabitants of Cripplegate Parish, This present Tuesday, and no more, at the Castle Tavern without Cripplegate. Price 1s. 6d. or 1s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Scene of% The Spanish Fryar

Song: New Song-Tony Aston in the Habit of a Fryar; other new comical songs-made this year at Tunbridge Wells

Event Comment: Benefit Paget and Mrs Forrester. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear. Receipts: money #29 8s.; tickets #106. Tickets at Paget's House, next the Castle Tavern, Fleet Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Antient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: A Journey to Bristol

Dance: IV: Scottish Dance, as17330329 V: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; II of Farce: Tollet's Grounds-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: For the Benefit of the Editor of Shakespear. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master, and the Antient and Honourable Society of the Free and Accepted Masons. N.B. By Appointment of the Grand Master, the Brethren are desir'd to meet at the Castle Tavern, Drury-Lane, cloath'd; thence to go in Procession, as usual, to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part Ii

Dance: I: Irish Trot by Young Master Oates. II: A new Comic Dance by Master Oates and Miss Oates Jr. V: Grand Dance of Momus, as17340426

Song: The usual Songs, adapted to the Subject of Masonry. II: The Enter'd Prentice's Song. IV: On, On, my dear Brethren. V: Let Matrimony be now my Theme

Event Comment: Benefit Peploe, Little, Lee. By particular Desire of some Foreign Ministers. Tickets for Castles and Munro taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: Pierrots. Dutchman and his Wife. Scotch Dance. English Maggot. Revellers

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Roland. Tickets at Mlle Roland's Lodgings, at Bauvais, Watch-Maker, in Castle-street, over against Cranbourne Alley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: Preamble on Kettle Drums by Poitier

Dance: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. A new Serious Dance by Mlle Roland. French Peasants by Poitier and Mlle Roland. Harlequin ami Harlequiness (new) by Poitier and Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Balicourt. At the Castle Tavern in Paternoster Row. 5s. To begin between six and seven o'Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: great Concert of Musick-the best Hands from both Operas

Event Comment: Never Acted before. Alter'd from Milton's Masque perform'd (upwards of a Hundred Years since) at Ludlow-Castle, and now adapted to the Stage. [By John Dalton.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit Muilment. As 27 Nov. 1738. Tickets at Muilment's, The Dial and Crown in Castle Street, over against Cranbourn Alley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: I: The Pieraites-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Grand Ballet-Denoyer; III: Aethiopian Dance-Muilment; IV: A new dance-Muilment

Event Comment: Never acted there before. With all new Habits. Adapted to the stage, as alter'd from Milton's Masque at Ludlow Castle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit LaLauze. At the Desire of several persons of Quality. Tickets to be had of LaLauze at the Widow Gwinn's near the Castle Tavern, Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: Several entertainments-LaLauze (being his first attempt of that kind these two years); particularly: II: The Amorous Swain; or The Rival Nimphs-Lalauze, Mlle Bonneval, Mrs Delagarde; III: Serious Dance-Cooke; IV: Les Jardiniers Suedois-Lalauze, Mlle Domitilla, Cooke, Mlle Bonneval; (By Desire) after Farce:, a Ball Dance call'd The Louvre,concluding with a Minuet-Lalauze, Lalauze's a boy scholar, Mlle Bonneval

Song: V: To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold, Bencraft

Event Comment: Adapted to the stage, as altered from Milton's Masque at Ludlow Castle. With proper habits and a new grand scene of the Palace of Comusv

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: [Possibly not performed, see 1 April, hay.] Benefit the two Misses Scot. 5s. 6:30 p.m. Having been discharged from Drury Lane Playhouse by the Manager, without being told, or even permitted to ask why he did so; and not being conscious of any offence we ever gave the public, we humbly hope Ladies and Gentlemen will encourage us in this endeavour to entertain them and support ourselves (Daily Advertiser). Tickets at Miss Scott's Lodgings, the Golden Cannister, Katherine St., Strand; Castle Tavern, Paternoster Row; Tilt Yard Coffee House, Whitehall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

Event Comment: Benefit LaLauze. Mainpiece not acted this season. By particular Desire of several persons of Quality. Tickets of LaLauze, at Widow Gwinn's, near the Castle Tavern in Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Cooke, Sga Campioni; IV: La Gondalier-Cooke; V: Minuet-LaLauze, Sga Campioni; followed by a Ball Dance call'd the Louvre, concluding with a Minuet-a Boy (scholar to LaLauze), Sga Campioni

Event Comment: Benefit Luke Sparks, at Silk Dyer's near Castle Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Vintner Trick'd

Song: II: Song-; IV: Cantata-Lowe

Dance: III: Italian Peasants, as17460206; V: Muilment

Event Comment: Adapted for the stage, as alter'd from Milton's Masque at Ludlow Castle (General Advertiser). Benefit for Beard. Ready Money #94 15s., plus #102 9s. from tickets. Charges #60. Paid Mrs Lane for Rent of Cowley in full to Michaelmas last #41. (Account Books, Egerton 2268) [Cowley was Rich's estate at Uxbridge. Notice about Amphitheatre (see 23 March) repeated.] Tickets of Beard at his house in Red Lyon Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Benefit Dunstall and Davies. Receipts: #15 16s. 6d., plus #91 15s. from tickets, distribution unspecified. Charges #60. Paid Bridgwater in part of his Bond #50 (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Tickets to be had at Dunstall's in Hunt's Court, Castle St; and of Davies at Mrs Cox's at the Indian Queen, in Cranbourn St., Leicester Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Event Comment: Adapted to the stage, as alter'd [by Dr John Dalton] from Milton's Masque at Ludlow Castle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: At the Castle Tavern, Paternoster Row (Deutsch, Handel, p. 704)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Event Comment: The Sixth Day. At the Castle Tavern, Paternoster Row. [See 3 Dec. 1751.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory 1

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 2

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 3

Event Comment: The seventh and last time that these orations will be delivered at the Castle Tavern, Paternoster Row, new matter being provided for the next night. The Ladies are desired to come early, that they may be accommodated with the best Seats, and not be crowded as they were the last two nights. [Advice repeated in subsequent bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory 1

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 2

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 3

Event Comment: hay The eighth day.By desire of several Persons of Distinction, at the Castle Tavern, Paternoster Row

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory 1

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 2

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 3

Event Comment: The Ninth Day. By the Command of several Noble Personnages, at the Castle Tavern, Paternoster Row

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory 1

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 2

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 3

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory 1

Performance Comment: As17520204, Castle Tavern, but, Act II, 4. New Occasional Prologueby a Gentleman of the University-; . .

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 2

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 3

Event Comment: The Eleventh Day at the Castle Tavern, Paternoster Row, By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Event Comment: At the Desire of Several Persons of Distinction. The Thirteenth Day. The Ladies are particularly desired to come early. Yesterday Orders were sent from the Lord Mayor to the Managers of the Entertainment last Night, exhibited at the Castle Tavern, Paternoster Row, to discontinue that part of it call'd The Old Woman's Oratory, the above being an unlicensed Place (Daily Advertiser, 19 Feb.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory