Event Comment: NNeville MS Diary: The last three he [Foote] has not done for some time. I like Woodward better in young Philpot. Both add some crochets of their own. I don't think he took off Mr Whitefield well. Cole, Shift and Smirk he does inimitably. He has a great command of features in the ludicrous way, not such as that of Garrick

Event Comment: Paid Mr Cole (turner) 2 Bills #73; Mr French's 2 drats. #200; Mr Lawrence (paper hanger) #19 11s.; Scott (copper laceman) #225 3s. 6d.; Hatsel (mercer) 2 bills, #365 1s.; Cropley (linen draper) #28 14s. 6d.; Cubitt (tinman) 2 bills, #22 8s.; Chamberlain & Co. (ironmongers) 2 bills, #44 7s. 6d.; Waller (hosier) #65 13s.; Barrow & Co. (oil merchts.) #21 17s. 6d.; Printer's Bill, #9 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #162 16s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. In consequence of Edwin's Indisposition, Bannister Jun. is obliged to undertake the character of Mrs Cole. Morning Chronicle, 19 July: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 29, Bow-street, Covent Garden. 1st piece [1st time; F I, author unknown, altered from The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar, by Aaron Hill. MS: Larpent 741; not published].3rd piece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 8 Sept. 1780]

Event Comment: Paid Mr Highley in Full of his bills #218 7s. 6d.; Paid Mr Cole (turner) bill, #32 8s. 6d.; and Chettle's bill for Timber #53 1s.; DeBrose (linendraper) #31 1s.; Waller (hosier) #13 7s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #164 8s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Shade, Cameron, Woollams, Wood, Wilson, Dangerfield, Irish, Edwards, Griffiths, Nix, Wooldridge, Panchaud & Cole [box-keepers]. [This was Dodd's last appearance on the stage.] "Dodd was one of the most perfect actors that I have ever seen. He was the fopling of the drama rather than the age. I mean by this, that his own times rarely shewed us anything so highly charged with the vanity of personal exhibition. He was, to be sure, the prince of pink heels, and the soul of empty eminence. As he tottered rather than walked down the stage, in all the protuberance of endless muslin and lace in his cravats and frills, he reminded you of the jutting motion of the pigeon. He took his snuff, or his bergamot, with a delight so beyond all grosser enjoyments that he left you no doubt whatever of the superior happiness of a coxcomb" (Boaden, Kemble, I, 55). Receipts: #580 17s. 6d. (25.17.0; 37.3.6; 11.0.0; tickets: 503.4.0; odd money: 3.13.0) (charge: #211 17s. 6d.)