Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Event Comment: [See Cross note under dl.] Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #74 15s. Paid Stede a Bill for writing Parts, #6 15s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: [For Cross' comment, see dl.] Receipts: #203 8s. 6d. Paid Barry one third of the surplus of this night's receipt over and above #80 allow'd for the charges:-#41 2s. 10s. Paid Lambert (Scene Painter) 3 month's salary to 16 Nov. last:-#25 (Account Book). [Lee, who seems to have entered earlier on a percentage-of-Box-Receipts: basis for his salary, received only one-third of receipts above a house charge of #100.] The Tragedy of King Lear was presented on this stage; King Lear by Mr Barry, and Cordelia by Mrs Bellamy; The latter was received with universal satisfaction; but on the former's appearance, after a thundering Peal of Applause, a few misguided persons made it necessary for Mr Barry to inform the audience that it ever had been his study to contribute his utmost to the entertainment of the town, and that all reports of his having been exorbitant in his demands were injurious and totally groundless. Upon this he was desired with one general acclamation to proceed in the play. The disturbers of the public were ordered to be silent or to be turned out of the house; and this great actor proved, by the improvement he has made in this character, that excellent as he is, he is still capable of reaching new strokes of perfection; and in the conclusion of the play the applause he met with was the tribute of hearts gratefully agitated through the whole performance with a variety of passions thrown into a ferment by powers most wonderfully suited to tenderness and compassion (London Chronicle, 3-6 Dec.)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted for two years. [See 9 Dec. 1755.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: [The paragraph briefing the action to be seen (see 27 Sept.) is omitted from the day's bill.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: This day is publish'd Isabella, or the Fatal Marriage, a Play, alter'd from Southern, as it is Performed at Drury Lane, printed for J. R. Tonson in the Strand. Price 1s. (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Middlesex Hospital. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Tickets to be had at Mr John Horne's, Treasurer of the Hospital, in Market St., near Newport Market; At Tom's Coffee House, Cornhill; The White Hart Tavern, Holborn; The Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden; Berkeley Square Coffee House; at the Hospital, and of Varney at the Theatre, where places may be taken. Receipts: #280 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Event Comment: The Tragedy of the Roman Father, written by William Whitehead, Esq: the present Poet Laureate, will be reviv'd at Drury Lane soon after the Holidays (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: Last Night the Princess Carolina dy'd & this Morning about 8 we receiv'd an order from the Chamberlain not to play 'till farther orders,--we obey'd & order ye Bills posted for this Night, to be pull'd down (Cross). [The Fatal Marriage and The Male Coquette had been scheduled.] Yesterday about 11 o'clock died at her Apartments in St James's Palace, Princess Caroline Elizabeth, 3rd daughter of our most Gracious Sovereign. Her Royal Highness was in her 45th year of her age, being born on the 10th of June 1713, and has been in a bad state of health for several years past. Her burial, it is said, is by her own Desire to be very private (Public Advertiser)

Event Comment: [No Performance to 6 Jan.] Th. 5th Jan., The Princess Buried (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: An Entertainment in Grotesque Characters, not acted these 4 years.[See 2 Dec. 1754.] The Scenes, Habits and Decorations entirely new. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Event Comment: This day is Publish'd: The Author, a Comedy of two Acts, by Foote. Price 1s. Printed for R. Francklin, Russell St., Drury Lane. Creusa Queen of Athens, a Tragedy, by Wm. Whitehead, Price 1s. 6d. Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall. Receipts: #180 (Cross)