Event Comment: Paid Charlotte Lane for making two Fustian Banjans & Breeches, and materials at 8s. each, 16s. For the Painters (MS list Davies, Life of Garrick, II, 322)

Event Comment: Paid Charlotte Lane for making Osman's dress for Mr Clarke, #1; Sewing, Silk, &c., 3s.; 7 yards slezia linnen at 14d.-8s. 2d.; 2yds Blue stuff & 4 yds linnen for interlining, 8s.; wadding to fill the breast & 2 yds silk lace, 1s. Making a white flannel waistcoat with sleeves 7s. Total #2 7s. 2d. (MS list Davies, Life of Garrick, II, 322)

Event Comment: Paid Charlotte Lane for altering a Turkey's Dress in Zanga for Mr Ridout, 2s. 6d. (MS list in Davies, Life of Garrick, II, 322)

Event Comment: Paid Charlotte Lane for making a white cloth coat and blue sattin waistcoat, loop'd and bound with silver for Mr Dyer, 18s.; for sewing silk and twist, 4s. 6d. Buckram and stays, 3s.; Hair cloth and wadding, 4s. dimety sleevelining & linnen pockets, 2s. 6d.; 2 doz. & 4 rich silver wire buttons at 8d.-18s. 6d. 19 breast buttons ditto at 4d.-6s. 4d. Dimety body lining to waistcoat and cuffs at 12s.-#1 13s.; 8 yds blue allopeen at 21!2 d.-17s. 4d. 21!4 yds white serge desoy at 5s.-11s. 3d. Also for Mr Dyer for making a yellow sattin waistcoat & cuffs, and mending a coat for Ranger, 8s.; sewing silk and twist, buckran & stays 4s.; three quarters yds white shallbon and interlining at 4d.-6s. 4d. Dimety body lining to waistcoat, 3s. 4d.; Stuff to make the backs 1s. 2 and 3!4 yds Blue Sattin for ye n silver'd buttons at 1s. 6d.-4s. 6d.; 11!2 doz. breast buttons ditto at 9d.-1s. 11!2d; For new buttoning and lacing a coat for Mrs Vincent 6s.; 2 doz. and 4 coat silver'd buttons at 1s. 6d.-3s. 6d.; 11!2 doz. breast buttons at 9d.-1s. 1 1!2d.; Sewing silk &c., 1s. 6d. (MS list in Davies, Life of Garrick, II, 322)

Event Comment: Paid Charlotte Lane for making a dress for Zanga for Mr Clarke, the Robe interlin'd with linen & the underdress lin'd with blue tammy's linnen, 18s.; 7 1!2 yds linnen at 10d.-7s. 6d.; 5 yds tammy at 2s.-10s.; silk, lace, and sewing silk, &c., 4s. (MS list in Davies, Life of Garrick, II, 322). [Also from same source]: paid to same for lengthening a coat sleeves & mending same for Mr Ridout, 1s. 3d.; for making a cloath coat lac'd with silver for Mrs Vincent, 10s. 6d., sewing silk, twist, buckram & stays, 4s. 6d.; hair cloth, wadding & linnen pockets, 5s.; 4 1!2 yds tammy at 2s.-9s

Event Comment: Benefit for furnishing the new Wards in the Middlesex Hospital. Paid Charlotte Lane for altering a cloth coat, and green corded silk waistcoat lac'd with silver for Mr Wm. Smith, 5s. 6d.; shalloos back & bod lining to coat & stiffening, 3s. (MS list in Davies, Life of Garrick II, 332). [The Occasional Prologue, written by Mr Boyce was publish'd in the Public Advertiser 19 Dec. 1755]: @And, Britons, Godlike charity is yours...@'Tis yours to silence Misry's plaintive moan@And make the grief of others all your own...@Give balm to Nature's accidental woes,@And sooth th'impovrish'd matron's pregnant throes...@ [The Epilogue, written by C. Smart, and spoken by Shuter in the character of a Man-midwife, was published in the same paper: Shuter enters with a child]: @Whoe'er begot thee has no cause to blush:@Thou'rt a brave chopping boy (child cries) nay, hush, hush, hush.@.......................@Nay if you once begin to puke and cough@Go to the nurse. Within, here, take him off.@Well Heav'n be prais'd, it is a peopling age,@Thanks to the Bar, the Army, and the Stage...

Event Comment: By Authority. Benefit for Mrs Charlotte Charke. (As I am entirely dependent on chance for a subsistence...I humbly hope the Town will favor me.) Boxes 5s. Pid 3s. Gallery 2s. The Seventh Night of performing here

Event Comment: Benefit for Bransby and Miss Young. British Chronicle, 16 April 1760: Died the celebrated Charlotte Charke in the Haymarket, daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq, poet laureate-a gentlewoman remarkable for her adventures and misfortunes

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: By Command of His Majesty. The King is gone to the Play, which is King John; he has hardly ever bespoke any other than Shakespeare's historical plays, all which they say he has ordered to be revived, and takes great pleasure in (Charlotte Fermor to Countess of Pomfret.--Hist. MSS Com. Appendix to 7th report [London, 1879], p. 513)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pinto. Tickets to be had of her in Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place; and of Mr Sarjant, at the stage-door (playbill). Charges #65 15s. [Profit to Mrs Pinto #103 8s. 6d., plus #78 11s. from tickets (Box 229; Pit 110; Gallery 48)] (Account Book). Receipts: #169 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Charges #65 17s. Deficit to Hull #17, covered by #121 3s. from tickets (Box 233; Pit 280; Gallery 209). Paid Hull for The Garland, The Spanish Lady and Altering the Comedy of Errors #50. Paid Miss Mary Twist and Miss Charlotte Twist for walking 12 nights in Man and Wife #1 10s. apiece (Account Book). Receipts: #48 17s

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these years. [See 17 March 1772. Gentlewoman identified by Hopkins Manuscript Notes and by Winston MS 10. The Westminster Magazine for March (p. 111) gives out that "she was very lately a boarder with the celebrated Charlotte Hayes; a circumstance which will inform our readers that her figure is pleasing and also that she is young and hadsome. It is but justice, however, to add that she possesses the internal as well as external requisites of a good actress; for she discovers great feeling and sensibility; and indeed promises to be an ornament to the theatre."] Receipts: #192 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Public Advertiser, 8 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #174 14s. (106.11; 16.4; 1.7; tickets: 50.12) (charge: #74 14s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Public Advertiser, 25 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Reinhold, No. 46, Charlotte-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #237 7s. (110.12; tickets: 126.15) (charge: #68 7s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee Lewes. Afterpiece: In [it] will be introduced the Stockwell Scenes, with a Prologue [by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Boaden, Mrs Siddons, I, 107)], in the Character of Harlequin, spoken by Lee Lewes; to conclude with the Escape through the Tub, as in Mother Shipton. [The Stockwell Scenes were included in all subsequent performances. The Prologue and Escape were included in the first 3 performances only (see 3 May).] Public Advertiser, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Lee Lewes, No. 40, Charlotte-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #282 18s. (119.15; tickets: 163.3) (charge: #69 17s. 6d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Samuel Jackson Pratt. Not in Larpent MS; not published. Prologue printed in Westminster Magazine, Apr. 1778, p.218; author unknown]. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #230 16s. 6d. (131.6.0; 25.4.0; 0.7.6; tickets: 73.19.0) (charge: #66 9s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee Lewes. Public Advertiser, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Lee Lewes, Charlotte-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #205 6s. (82.16; tickets: 122.10) (charge: #66 9s. 6d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Webster. Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Webster, No. 35, Upper Charlotte-street, Rathbone-place. Receipts: #203 7s. (73.12; 15.13; 1.15; tickets: 112.7) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Mainpiece: With the grand Triumphal Entryv. Public Advertiser, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #215 2s. 6d. (135.6.0; 21.4.0; 5.13.6; tickets: 52.19.0) (charge: #82 5s. 3d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Tickets delivered for The Comedy of Errors will be admitted. Books of the Catches and Glees to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Reinhold, No. 90, Charlotte-street, Rathbone-place

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Public Advertiser, 14 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #191 2s. (76.0.0; 27.5.6; 1.3.6; tickets: 86.13.0) (charge: #67 14s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Tickets delivered for Friday the 14th will be admitted. Public Advertiser, 7 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Reinhold at his house in Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #246 13s. 6d. (112.18.6; tickets: 133.15.0) (charge: #66 15s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. Morning Herald, 12 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mattocks at his house, Charlotte-street, Rathbone-place. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [not acted since 26 Dec. 1774]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years [not acted since 22 May 1778]. Receipts: #175 3s. 6d. (151/9/6; tickets: 23/14/0) (charge: #105)