Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of several persons of Quality. [Mrs Macklin doubled in Mrs Peachum and Diana Trapes.] Afterpiece: Containing his Surprizing Victory over Glumdalca, Queen of the Giants; His Magnificent reception in King Arthur's Courtv; His Marriage with the Princess Huncamunca; With the fatal Jealousy of Queen Dollalolla. And many other Historical Passages

Event Comment: [K+King Henry VIII] Containing the Death of the Duke of Buckinghamv; the Tryal and Divorce of Queen Catherinev; the Death of Cardinal Wolseyv; the Christening of Queen Elizabethv; and many other Historical Passages. [A customary notice for all Henry VIII bills this season. It will not be repeated below.] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command. Gave the Yeoman of the Guard #2 2s.; The King's Footmen Xmas Box by Heron #2 2s.; The Queen's Footmen Xmas Box by Shields #2 2s; King's Chairmen Xmas Box by Jupp #2 2s,; Queen's Chairmen Xmas Box by Jones #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #274 4s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Gave King's Footmen (by Ferry) #2 2s.; Queen's Footmen (By Rumford) #2 2s.; King's Chairmen (by Jupp) #2 2s.; Queen's Chairmen (by Webster) #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #217 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. 1st piece [1st time; prel I (?)]: A Tragical Tragedy, altered [probably by Richard Wilson] from Fielding's Pasquin. In the Tragedy will be introduced the Triumphal Entry of the Queen of Ignorance. 2nd piece: In 3 acts. [This play is by Thomas Baker; it is not TUNBRIDGE Wells; or, A Day's Courtship, by Thomas Rawlins, the younger.] 3rd piece [1st time; M. INT I, author unknown. Words printed complete in Public Advertiser 19 Aug. 1782]

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 2 Nov. 1761]. With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. In Act I a Grand Banquetv. In Act II the Trial of Queen Katharinev. In V a Procession to the Christening of Princess Elizabethv. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] Mrs Siddons's Queen Katharine was "too laboured -particularly the Trial Scene, where the words came so slow and measured that they seemed to be distilled" (Public Advertiser, 29 Nov.). Receipts: #260 11s. (248.12; 11.6; 0.13)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Goodall as the Queen, but she "being indisposed, Mrs Whitfield performed, or rather attempted the Queen" (Thespian Magazine, Aug. 1792, p. 53).

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With new Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. [This was the version, altered probably by Joseph George Holman, in which he appeared in Dublin on 29 July 1794, on which occasion the playbill reads, "Dressed in the Habits of the Times, and with other Alterations, adopted in its Representations 19 [recte 11] Nights last Winter, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden." It further states that the part of Ophelia would be performed "without the Airs, and with a considerable Restoration of the Text." No record of what these alterations consisted of has come to light. In III.iv Hamlet's father was represented by a life-sized portrait that hung over the chimney, and the Queen wore a large miniature of Claudius on her arm as a bracelet (London Chronicle, 10 Oct.). The words of the Dirge are printed in European Magazine, Nov. 1793, p. 393; they are stanza X of Shakespeare's Passionate Pilgrim. Miss Poole had appeared as a singer at king's and at Vauxhall in 1787 and at the cg oratories in 1791.] Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years [and in place of The Prisoner at Large, advertised on playbill of 8 Oct.]. Receipts: #332 4s. (330.3; 2.1)

Event Comment: [The transfer of the company from the queen's to dl was made without fanfare. On 6 Nov. Swiny, Wilks, Cibber, and Dogget had been granted a license to established a company; see Nicoll, pp. 275-76.

Event Comment: [By Theophilus Cibber.] Alter'd from Shakespear. Containing the Marriages of King Edward the Fourth , and young Prince Edward , with Lady Gray , and Lady Anne . The Distresses of Queen Margaret . The Deposing King Henry the Sixth . The Battles Fought at St. Albans, Wakefield, Mortimer's-Cross, and Tewkesbury. The Deaths of Lord Clifford of Cumberland , and his Son, the Duke of York , his Steward. And many other True Historical Passages

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Majesties' Command. [The King, Queen, and three eldest Princesses present.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Dryden. Egerton 2320: Receipts: #80. [For a poem on Mrs Roberts' acting the Queen, see London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 26 Sept.

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee. Tickets to be had at Mr Prince's, Linnen Draper, the Golden Artichoke, in Great Queen St., near Lincoln's Inn Fields; of Mr Calcroft at the Ship in Ivy Lane, Newgate St., and at the Stage Door. Tickets deliver'd for the 22nd will be taken. No building on stage. Receipts: #130 (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: [K+King Henry VIII] Containing the Death of the Duke of Buckingham ; the Tryal and Divorce of Queen Catherine ; the Death of Cardinal Wolsey ; the Christening of the Princess Elizabeth ; and many other Historical passages. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: SScapin hiss'd (Cross). [Mainpiece advertised in full as containing]: The Death of the Duke of Buckinghamv; the Tryal and Divorce of Queen Catherinev, the Death of Cardinal Wolseyv; the Christening of the Princess Elizabethv; and many other Historical Passages. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: NNossiter play'd Rutland (Cross). [Murphy in Gray's Inn Journal, 15 Dec., notes: It is universally agreed by all who have seen the play [Essex] that Mrs Bland performs the queen with great Spirit and with more resemblance to a personage of rank, than is commonly seen on the stage."

Event Comment: [The Bill contains usual Advertisement: "Containing 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." This advertisement will not be noted further this season.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Being the Death of the Duke of Buckinghamv; the Trial and Divorce of Queen Catherinev; the Death of Cardinal Wolseyv; The Christening of Princess Elizabethv; and many other Historical Passages. [This customary note accompanying each subsequent announcement this season will not be repeated further.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)