Event Comment: Benefit Chr. M. Rich</a>. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Middlepiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #38 6s.; tickets #54 9s

Event Comment: Memorandum: Mrs Baker, actress, died this day at Coventry on her Journey from Liverpool to London. Paid Mr J. Rich</a> on Account #10. [This is Account or ledger Number 1 (Account Book).] Receipts: #71 11s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece:In I A Grand Masqueradev. Afterpiece [1st time; M. INT 1, by Thomas John Dibdin]: To conclude with a new Scenic Representation of Britannia Triumphantv. Interspersed With a Variety of favorite old Airs, popular Songs, Parodies, &c. The Overture and new Songs composed and the Music in general arranged by Moorehead. The Machinery invented and executed by Cresswell. Books of the Songs to be had in the Theatre, price Six-pence. Morning Chronicle, 16 Oct. 1799: This day is published The Naval Pillar (price not listed). The afterpiece had reference to the contemplated erection of a "Naval Pillar" on Portsdown Hill, near Portsmouth, in commemoration of the recent victbries of the English navy. A plain pillar is at the last introduced, with the names of the most celebrated admirals on a scroll, round which the sailors and their sweethearts dance with peculiar festivity. The pillar now flies open, and displays a most magnificent and appropriate spectacle--consisting of Britannia, personated by Mrs Chapman, under a rich canopy, with the figures of a sailor and a soldier for supporters, pointing to the letters G. R. over a brilliant sun, which turns on the center; shrouded in clouds above, and surrounded by angels, is a medallion of Lord Howe, and on columns on each side of the canopy are medallions of your great living naval commanders" (Monthly Visitor, Oct. 1799, p. 180). Receipts: #284 10s. 6d. (277.18.6; 6.12.0)

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of afterpiece [Daily Courant]. Benefit J. and Ch. Rich</a> [Rich's Register]. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #71 3s.; tickets #26

Event Comment: Benefit John Rich</a>. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #70. Rich's Register: Recd of Lady Rochester 4-0-0

Event Comment: Receipts: #63 12s. [For Rich</a>'s operation of both cg and lif simultaneously, see Hughes and Scouten, John Rich and the Holiday Seasons of 1732-33, pp. 46 -52.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted there before. New Decorations incident to the play (General Advertiser). Advanc'd towards purchasing Mr Smollet's copy of Alceste #100 (Account Book). Handel remov'd to Covent Garden, and entered into some engagements with Rich</a>, the particulars of which are not known, save that in discharge of a debt that he had contracted with him in consequence thereof, he some years after set to music an English opera entitled Alceste, written by Dr Smollet, and for which Rich was at great expense in a set of scenes painted by Servandoni; but it was never performed (Hawkins, General History of Music, V, 324). [For additional information on Alceste, see Deutsch, Handel, pp. 679-81. See also cg 14 Feb. 1749.] Receipts: #155 18s. 6d

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #92 11s

Event Comment: Mainpiece. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #73 3s. Probable attendance: boxes, 46 paid and 34 orders; balcony, 1 paid; pit 220 paid and 26 orders; slips, 17 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 203 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 97 paid and 2 orders

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #38 15s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 32 paid and 9 orders; pit, 83 paid and 18 orders; slips, 7 paid and 11 orders; first gallery, 112 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 120 paid and 4 orders

Event Comment: Receipts: #147 5s. 6d. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Probable attendance: boxes, 194 paid and 20 orders; stage, 1 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 275 paid and 11 orders; slips, 38 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 406 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 165 paid

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #73 3s. Probable attendance: boxes, 62 paid and 5 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 174 paid and 45 orders; slips, 6 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 216 paid and 33 orders; second gallery, 140 paid and 13 orders

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #47 5s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 43 paid and 9 orders; pit, 103 paid and 14 orders; slips, 4 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 119 paid and 7 orders; second gallery, 137 paid

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #100 19s. Probable attendance: boxes, 49 paid and 29 orders; pit, 259 paid and 14 orders; slips, 28 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 252 paid and 7 orders; second gallery, 183 paid. [This is the last entry in the Harvard Manuscript which lists the receipts in various sections of the theater.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh, Receipts: #93 2s. 6d

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #78 13s

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #30 13s

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #49 18s

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir J. Vanbrugh. Receipts: #89 8s

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele

Event Comment: Benefit Dupre. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh, and Colley Cibber Esq; Poet-Laureat