Event Comment: Benefit
Chapman [who states that he is in danger of losing vision in one eye. Tickets at Chapman's House, the Corner of
Bow Street cg.]
London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 27 March: Last Week died, after a most tedious and expensive Illness, at
Chelsea,
Mrs Laguerre, formerly a celebrated Dancer on the Stage.
Daily Post, 29 March: During the Rehearsal [on 27 March], of a new Tragedy, written by
Mr Thompson, call'd
Edward and Eleonora, (which was to have been acted on this Day) he receiv'd, to his great Surprise, a Message from the
Lord Chamberlain, absolutely forbidding the acting of the said Play. No Objection having been made to the Whole or any Part of it, we must conclude it was consider'd as immoral or seditious
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor
Performance Comment: Modely-Chapman; Hartwell-Hale; Freehold-Bridgwater; Sir John-Penkethman; Lurcher-Hill; Vulture-James; Carbuncle-Mullart; Shacklefigure-Neale; Flora-Mrs Bellamy; Aura-Mrs Vincent; Doublejugg-Hippisley.Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida
Dance: GGrand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland; Two Pierots-Lalauze, Desse; Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates