Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. Mr Ross did Romeo & spoke an Elogium upon Shakespear in ye form of ye Monument in the Abby (Cross). Last time of performing the mainpiece this season. Nothing under full prices. After the play an Elogium wrote by Dryden, concluding with Milton's Epitaph to the Memory of Shakespeare, spoken by Ross representing the Shade of Shakespeare as figured on his monument in Westminster Abbey. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Mathews. Places at stage door, and at Mathews in Long-Acre, near St Martin's Lane. Receipts. #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Sowdon. No building on the stage on account of the Coronation. [With] The Death of the Duke of Buckinghamv; the Tryal and Divorce of Queen Catherinev; The Death of Cardinal Wolseyv; the Christening of Princess Elizabethv; and many other historical passages. Tickets to be had of Sowdon, next door to the Black Lyon, in Little Russel-St., Covent Garden; at Will's Coffee House in Cornhill; at Mr Thomas Sowdon's in Blackman St., Southwark, and at the stage door. Mainpiece: Not acted in 6 years [see 1 Jan. 1746]. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Ridout. Afterpiece: Acted for the last time but one. Tickets deliver'd out by Mr Stephens will be taken

Event Comment: Benefit for LaLauze. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets delivered by Miss Haughton will be taken. This Day Publish'd the last New Oratorio Jeptha, in Score, composed by Mr Handel at 10s. 6d

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Leviez. No Building on stage. Tickets at his, the lowest House on the Right-Hand in Beaufort Buildings in the Strand; and at Stage Door of Theatre. Receipts: #125 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Pritchard, Treasurer. Tickets his house next the Chapel in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields. This day publish'd at 1s.A Poetical Epistle from Shakespear in Elysium, to Mr Garrick at Drury Lane Theatre. Printed for J. Newberry (General Advertiser). Old Jack Ray, dy'd (Cross). Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Howard. Afterpiece: A Masque (never perform'd here). As it was performed at the Theatre Royal Dublin, with universal applause. The Music composed by Sg Pasquali. Printed Books of the Entertainment will be sold at the Theatre. Tickets deliver'd out by Grandchamps and Madem Camargo will be taken

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow of the Late Mr Lampe, and Miss Young. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Being Postiively the last time of acting it this season. Tickets deliver'd out for Macbeth will be taken

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks and Dickenson. On Friday last died Mr Ray, an Old Comedian, belonging to Drury Lane; but his benefit, which is to be on Monday next, is put under the management of some eminent Tradesmen his friends, who intend to employ the profits of it towards the discharge of his creditors. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for the late Ray, G: Burton, Harvey, Harrison. No building on stage. Tickets deliver'd out by the Late Mr Ray will be taken. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrisford, Tomlings, Atkinson, Foley, Tomlinson, and Burke. [The General Advertiser lists Tubal-Costollo.] Tickets deliver'd out by $Baker, Lewis, and Mr Lloyd will be taken. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Bridges. Tickets deliver'd out for Monday the 11th will be taken

Event Comment: On Tuesday last Information was laid before Justice Fielding by a Tradesman in Westminster, that one of his Apprentices had robbed him, in order to equip himself for acting a Play, and that the said Play was to be acted that Evening by several Apprentices, and other idle Persons, at the old Tennis-Court in James St. Upon this the Justice despatched Mr. Welch in the Evening with a Party of Soldiers to apprehend the Persons concerned in the Representation of the Play, which was the Tragedy of Venice Preserved. Jaffier, Pierre, Belvidera, and most of the principal Characters, were taken, and some of them, particularly Belvidera, were brought in their Theatrical attire before the Justice. The Men all appeared to be young Apprentices and the Woman a young Milliner; wherefore the Justice was unwilling to proceed against them as Rogues and Vagabonds, as they are made by the last Vagrant Act; in which case they must have been committed to Bridewell, which might have proved their Ruin; He treated them therefor as guilty of an unlawful assembly, and a common Nuisance; for which they were either bound for their good Behavior, or committed for want of Sureties, and soon after discharged. It was sworn before the Justice that Sunday had been the usual Day of rehearsing their Parts (General Advertiser, 17 Aug.)

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of The Prince of Wales. A new Scene was introduc'd of Beasts in Mr Rich's Entertainment as an Ostrich a Lyon, Dog, Monkey, 2 small Ostrichs & A Figure like Maddox upon ye Wire & writ up ye new Company of Comedians Hiss'd a good Deal (Cross). [See cg 2 Nov.] Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: noise still (Cross). [See 6 Nov.] Mainpiece: It appears that Mr Garrick is solicitous to banish vice from the theatre, by his having first omitted to exhibit that scandalous piece the London Cuckolds on the evening of the Lord Mayor's Day [9 Nov.] contray to immemorial custom, and the practice of the other house. He has also made a vigorous attempt to exclude folly but the friends of folly appeared to be so numerous, that he could not effect his purpose (Gentleman's Magazine, Nov. 1752, p. 535). Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Event Comment: [Noise, & some fighting in ye pit Mr Woodward when ye Entertainment was over each Night gave it out again, which the opposite Party look'd upon as Impudent--ye Inspector wrote against it--the fool, against the Silent Woman, as Indecent, & this Night whatever passages he had mark'd out were hiss'd by two or 3 people (Cross). [The Inspector edited by Dr John Hill.] Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Event Comment: A concert, etc. at the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green. Prices 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d. Positively, The last night of performing. Tickets to be had of Mr Phillips at His House in Snow Fields. [Beginning 25 Nov. the General Advertiser becomes the Public Advertiser.

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. In the afterpiece Being the Last time of Mr Maddox's performing

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow & Children (Cross), who are fallen into great distress (Winston MS 8). Tickets to be had at Mr Gladman's, a Trunk-maker, Charing Cross; at the Amsterdam Coffee House, behind the Exchange; at the Rainbow and Janeways in Cornhill; at Anderton's and the Temple-Exchange, in Fleet St.; at George's, Temple Bar; Somerset Coffee House, Strand and at Stage Door of the Theatre. Receipts: #97 (Cross)

Event Comment: On Saturday 6 January will be performed for the benefit of Joseph Lowe, citizen of London under Misfortunes, the tragedy of King Richard III. The part of Richmond by Mr Joseph Lowe

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Mr Woodward's Night for the New Entertainment, will be on Monday next, the 15th instant. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Event Comment: This night [see Public Advertiser 13 Jan.] about the middle of the play at Covent Garden, a Gentleman who sat in one of the gallery boxes, ask'd another who sat next him if he could lend him a knife; on being told he could not, the former pull'd out a small pen-knife and stabb'd himself; which occasioned some commotion in that part of the house; he was immediately carried to the Shakespeare's Head, and Mr Baker the surgeon dress'd the wound, which the gentleman suffer'd with great constraint; He would not tell who he was, nor what was the cause of this rash action