Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Kennedy. No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd for Much Ado and The Wonder will be taken

Event Comment: By Particular Desire a Minuet (for the first time)-Noverre, Miss Mowatt. Benefit for Miss Mowatt. Mainpiece: Acted but once these 5 years. No Building on stage. Tickets and places to be had of Miss Mowatt, Upper End of New Bond St., and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door

Event Comment: Benefit for a Gentleman under Misfortunes. Receipts: #63 19s. 6d. plus #116 6s. from tickets (Box 389; Pit 127). [Profit to Mr Oliver, the beneficiary, #96 5s. 6d. (Account Book).] Charges: #84 (Account Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. By Particular Desire. Tickets delivered for the Busy Body will be taken. [Account Book indicates Receipts: #26 1s. 6d. plus #53 14s. from tickets: (Box 61; Pit 165; Gallery 137). A staff of 22 servants, plus the women dressers and charwomen were paid #3 13s. 2d. for operating the theatre this night. The deficit carried into the summer after this night was #216 19s. 10d. This deficit plus summer expenses produced an encumbrance of #359 12s. 9d. to be met at the start of the 1761-62 season. Rich upon ten occasions withdrew under Account I from the treasury #2743. From this account he put back into the treasury upon three occasions (May 8, 31; June 23) #600. So over and above the #6 which the Rich family received daily in Account 76, Rich tucked away #2143 in Account I. In addition his carpentry bills to Mr Gom for work at Cowley were paid from theatrical funds. His cut from Account 76 at #5 per night was #810. So apparently Rich cleared #2953 this season despite the fact that it ran only 162 nights, and that George II's death occurred in a money-making part of the season.] Charges: #42 (Account Book)

Event Comment: Boxes, 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for Boxes of Mr Johnson at the stage door. No persons may be admitted behind scenes or into orchestra. No money to be returned after curtain is drawn up. [Usual note not to be further recorded.] Theatre newly painted and decorated (Winston MS 9)

Event Comment: To begin exactly at 6 o'clock. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Sarjant, at the Stage-Door of the Theatre. No Money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn up. [Customary notice each night during the season. Significant changes only will be recorded hereafter.

Event Comment: The Winston Theatrical Record suggests the following initial outlay for the season, which on 26 Nov. was subtracted from the total receipts to leave the company solvent at #715 9s., when Beard took over: @50 Performers' salary #210 0s. 10d.@50 Servants' salary #16 16s.@Music expenses #52 16s. 7d.@#279 13s. 5d.@To Mr Rich on account #1000@Habadasher's Bill for Coronation #4 16s. 4d.@Ribbons for Coronation #2 16s. 5d.@Window Curtain for Mrs Bellamy's Room #1 4s. 8d.@Printing #3 8s. 6d.@#1291 19s. 4d.

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. No Gentlemen can possibly be admitted into the Orchestra, or behind the scenes except those who attend the Royal Family. The Ladies and Gentlemen who have taken places for this evening, are desired to be at the Theatre by Five o'clock at the farthest, or their places cannot be secur'd

Event Comment: Balance brought over #419 7s. Of the receipts #11 came from the Boxes. Rec'd of Mr Laluze for 5 days salary to the 18th inst., he being discharged of the of the company,-#3. Expenses in addition to the regular ones: Chorus singers #3 1s.; License for the Lyar #2 2s. Receipts: #89 8s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Event Comment: Income from Boxes #44 15s. Advanced to Mr Blackmore #50; Paid for a crimson velvet coat #12 12s.; a side drum #1 1s. Receipts: #117 9s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Event Comment: No mention of Box income. Pay lists as of 26 Sept. Add Mrs Hamilton, enter'd from 1st Inst. at #1 10s. per day being return'd from Ireland that day; Mrs Storer enter'd from 20 Sept. at 6s. 8d.; Mr Maguire and Wife from 2nd at 10s.; Dall a week's salary #2; Thorne for scenemen #12; 19s. 6d.; Serjeant three months' salary to 29 Sept. #10. Total pay list came to #322 8s. 1d. Receipts: #86 15s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Event Comment: Young Gentlewoman-Miss E. Miller, marryed since to Mr Thomas Baker, an actor of cg, and a singing master. Mrs Baker is at present separated from her husband (1792) and performs only at Sadler's Wells in Pantomimes &c! Qu: Count Haslang and Mrs Baker (Hopkins MS Notes). Income from Boxes #27 2s. 6d. Nightly expense as usual #32 16s. 11d. Receipts: #74 7s. 6d. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Event Comment: Income from Boxes #17 17s. Expenses #41 2s. 5d. Bought a figured velvet suit lac'd for #16 16s.; a Pursuivant's coat for #3 3s.; Extras in Romeo: 2 Trumpets 10s.; Two Flutes 10s.; one Kettle Drum 5s.; and Mr Vincent 5s. Receipts: #110 9s. 6d. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these two years. [George II's death had closed the theatres on 4 Nov. the previous year.] Income from Boxes #14 15s. Paid Mr Powell for two years att[endin]g Office & pass [?] Ac[count]. #100. Advanced to Hull #20. Receipts: #64 16s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Event Comment: JJohn Rich Esq, Master and Patentee of the TRCG, died Thursday 26 Nov. 1761, about six o'clock in the evening, at his house adjoining to the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, in the seventieth year of his age. Mrs Priscilla Rich sole executrix of the Will of John Rich Esq, deceas'd. Mr John Rich was buried in Hillingdon Churchyard. (See his Epitaph, Lysons's Middlesex Parishes, p. 162) Dec. 4, 1761. ibid p. 173 (Hopkins MS Notes). Income from Boxes #85 5s. Rec'd of John Condill on acct of Fruit #20. Expenses #46 3s. 8d. [The balance brought forward to this date for this season was #2007 9s. 1d. From this was subtracted the #1291 19s. 4d. necessary for starting the season (see 9 Sept.), which left Beard a favorable balance of #715 9s. 9d. with which to carry on. The Winston Theatrical Record ceases on this date.

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of Their Majesties. Sga Manesiere lived with Mr Fisher, Ballet Master at cg, who marryed her in her last illness. N.B. She had some Property. This Lady was a pattern of neatness and exterior modesty (Hopkins MS Notes)

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. This day publish'd Price 1s. Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music; written by Dryden. To which is added the Coronation Anthem as performed this evening at Covent Garden. Set by Mr Handel. This Day publish'd Price 5s. sewed. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing, by Giovanni Andrea Gallini, Director of the Dances at the Royal Theatre in the Haymarket

Event Comment: This day publish'd Semele set to Music by Mr Handel. Price 1s. As it is performed this evening at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. Printed for J & R. Tonson in the Strand

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets and Places to be had of Smith, at his house, opposite the concert room in Dean Street, Soho, and of Mr Sarjant at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes, where servants will be allowed to keep places. N.B. No building on the Stage