Event Comment: Mrs King was put in the Bills in the following manner:
Rosalind By Command by
Mrs King. A Circumstance I never knew before, nor do I know by what accident it happened. I'm Sure it's a particular Honour, which her acting cannot deserve (
Hopkins Diary). By Command. [
Macmillan's note form
Kemble comments on Hopkins' astonishment at the command procedure: "This circumstance was a contrivance of
Mr Garrick's in order to mortify
Mrs Yates,
Mrs Abington, and
Miss Younge."] Paid
Mr Loutherbourg on acct. #31 13s. 4d. (Treasurer's Book). [This payment occured monthly, and was made up to #261 10s. 4d. by a final payment of #8 on 29 June 1776. No further itemization of it will be made.] Receipts: #260 12s. (Treasurer's Book)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: As You Like It
Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow
Dance: End I: A New Dance call'd The Merry Peasants-M Fontaine (from the Opera at Paris), Mrs Sutton, Others; End I Afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17751003