Event Comment: MMiss Pope in Corrinna (fine) Mr Wilkinson, Mrs Amlet (sad) (Cross). Mainpiece: Not acted in 8 years [but see 3 Jan. 1753]. My mother and I were at Drury Lane to see The Confederacy and Harlequin Ranger, Mrs King, Watson and Miss Pitt sat in our Box, a new actress did Corrinne to perfection, see Schutz Jr, Mr Schutz, Dives and Pigot there (Hailey, 'The Brietzcke Diary," p. 360). Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Event Comment: Boxes: #25 (Account Book). Mr Hook and I went to the Revels & see the best part of Harlequin Skeleton. Dives was there with Charlotte Hayes (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, N & Q, Vol. 199. p. 261). Receipts: #108 16s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: A poem, Bartholomew-Fayr, is in A Choice Compendium; or, An Exact Collection of the Newest, and most Delightful Songs (entered in the Term Catalogues, February 1680@1); it refers to some of the activities at the Fair: @Here's that will Challenge all the Fayr,@Come buy my Nuts, Damzens, my Burgamy Pears;@Here's the Whore of Babylon, the Devil and the Pope,@The Girl is just a going on the Rope:@Here's Dives and Lazarus, and the Worlds Creation,@Here's the Tall Dutch Woman, the like's not i'th Nation.@Here is the Booth where the High-Dutch Maid is,@Here are Bares that Dance like any Ladies.@Tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, says the little Penny Trumpet.@Here's Jacob Hall that does Jump it, Jump it.@Sound Trumpets, sound, for Silver Spoon and Fork,@Come here's your Dainty Pigg and Pork.

Event Comment: This work is advertised in The Loyal Protestant 22, 27, and 29 Aug. 1682: at Mrs Saffry's, a Dutch Woman's booth, over against the Greyhound Inne in West Smithfield. [Her first announcement calls the company "By an Approved Company"; the other two notices refer to it as "the first New-market Company." See Rosenfeld, The Theatre of the London Fairs, p. 6.] John Coysh paid #6 for a booth at the Fair (Rosenfeld, The Theatre of the London Fairs, p. 6). See also Morley, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair, p. 222, for notice of the Indian Water Worksv. In Wit and Drollery (1682), p. 304, are verses on the Fair: @Here's the Whore of Babylon the Devil and the Pope,@The Girl is just agoing on the Rope@Here's Dives and Lazarus and the World's Creation,@Here's the Tall Dutch Woman the like's not in the Nation,@Here is the Booth where the High-Dutch Made is@Hear are the Bears that dance like any Ladies,@Tat, tat, tat, tat, tat says the little penny Trumpet@Here's Jacob Hall, that does so jump it, jump it.@Sound Trumpet Sound, for Silver Spoon and Fork,@Come here's your dainty Pit and Pork.@ [See also August 1680.