Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Person of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Event Comment: At the paticular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Event Comment: By Paritular Desire. [The Daily Post, 11 Jan., has an advertisement stating that on 4 Jan. an order arrived from the Lord Chamberlain forbidding the acting of Arminius, then in rehearsal.

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Daily Advertiser, 25 Jan.: On Wednesday night last a Disturbance happen'd at Drury-Lane Playhouse, occasion'd by one of the principal Dancers not being there to dance at the end of the Entertainment, and after most of the People in the Pit and Galleries were gone, several Gentlemen in the Boxes pull'd up the Seats and Flooring of the same, tore down the Hangings, broke down the Partitions, all the Glasses and Sconces, the King's Arm over the middle front Box was pull'd down and broke to Pieces; they also destroy'd the Harpsichord, Bass Viol, and other Instruments in the Orchestra; the Curtain they cut to pieces with their Swords, forc'd their way into the lesser Green-Room, where they broke the Glasses, &c. and after destroying every thing they could well get asunder, to the amount of about three or four hundred Pounds Damage, left the House in a very ruinous Condition. [See also London Magazine, IX (1740), 47-48, 100.

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Benefit Cibber. [Tickets at Cibber's Lodgings, at Mr Bolney's, Great Piazza, cg.