Event Comment: Mrs Booth has lately erected a Monument to B. Booth, is now upwards of 90, was the famous Miss Santlowe so much admir'd as Actress and Dancer (Winston MS 10). Advanc'd Mr Barry (b:office keeper) #15; Ditto to Mr Watson (b:office keeper) #10 (Treasurer's Book). [Operating cash returned to treasury on 5 June 1773, but with a deficit of #6 5s. Barry seems not to have been hired thereafter, Archeveque taking his place the following season.] Receipts: #173 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Parsons of dl and Mr Buckley of cg purchas'd Bristol Theatre formerly the property of Mr Bransby (Winston MS 10). Receipts: #199 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. When Face ask'd Drugger if he had any Interest with the Players--Mr G. Answer'd I believe I had once but don't know if I have now or not--It It had a good Effect--his having Just Sold his Share of the Patent (Hopkins Diary). [MacMillan's note from Kemble differs slightly.] On Wed. Night Jan. 18, 1776, Mr Garrick concluded his treaty for the sale of his share of the patent and property of Drury Lane Theatre to 4 gentlemen for #35,000 (Winston MS 11). Receipts: #256 9s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. [The BM Playbill lists Mercury-Bannister.] Half past six went into ye Pit to see $Barry do Hastings and Mrs Dancer Jane Shore. Before ye play began, ended reading ye parts of Hastings, Jane Shore and Dumont. When ye Gods called for ye Prologue, York beckoned to be quiet. What authority these fellows assume! T. Barry did Dumont, but he will never be equal to his father. The Entertainment was Lethe. Old Man and Lord Chalkstone by Shuter. Garrick, who sat near me, laughed at his understanding ye character of Lord Chalkstone so little, as to say--"She married for money, and I for a title." Drunken man pretty well by Weston (Neville MS Diary)

Event Comment: NNeville MS Diary: Went to ye Pit to see ye Beggar's Opera-oblig'd to stand till ye play was over-Read some parts of ye Opera which I borrowed at Davies's, before it began and between the acts. Barry is a good Macheath, but most persons who have seen him when young observe that he has not ye activity and fire he then had. He sings tolerably as does Mrs Dancer; but both are greatest in ye acting part. Mrs D. is ye best Polly I ever saw, having that sensibility which your mere singing Pollys generally want. Mrs Mahon did Lucy with great ease and propriety, and has a good deal of expression in her countenance. Thomson has a force and mellowness of voice very suitable to ye character of Lockit. I do not think Weston excels in Filch. Shuter raised vast applause by adding, after Trapes has said "done under the Surgeon's hand'--"Oh dreadful and in such weather too!" Bannister in Mat added--"Die hard"--and Palmer in Budge--"Die game--" Mrs Gardner's pretending to get drunk in Mrs Slam is new. We had at ye end of Act 2 the Fing., of Act 3 a New Hornpipe, and at ye end of ye Opera the H. Peasant by $Miss Froment, with Duke and No Duke-of which I am tired

Event Comment: [G$Genest, V, 140, notes that Bannister's name does not appear in the playbill; the Public Advertiser bill, which does not specify any parts, includes Bannister as well as Strange, Loveman, Keen, and Smith, for which there is no support in the 1767 edition.] Before six went into the Pit to see the new tragedy of The Countess of Salisbury performed for the first time. One cannot judge perfectly of a Play without reading it, but it was received with vast applause. The author being an Irishman, Weston spoke a Prologue in the character of an Hibernian (Neville MS Diary)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hamilton. Mainpiece: Not acted these 16 years. Ladies send sevants by 3 o'clock. Mrs Hamilton is obliged to change her Farce on account of Miss Brent's indisposition. Receipts: #85 10s. 6d. in cash, plus #161 1s. from tickets (Boxes 230; Pit 481; Gallery 314). Total income #246 11s. 6d. Charges #64 5s. Paid Stede a bill for writing #10 13s. 6d. Paid Mr Long for 3 dozen drums #2 14s. [To the house charges this season Rich adds extras: candles (wax) #1 5s.

Event Comment: Characters in Afterpiece New Dress'd. Paid Mr Weston per Mr G. G's note #4 11s. 7d. (Treasurer's Book). [King's costume in part of Wilding cost #8 12s. 3d. Payment made 4 March.] Receipts: #174 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in two years. [See 15 May 1771.] Paid Mr Weston per Mr G. G's note #18 7s. Receipts: #148 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Paid Mr Weston per Mr G. G's note #4 16s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #230 3s. 6d. Charges: #64 13s. Profits to Dodd: #165 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece by Desire. Benefit Cashell. [Receipts: #34 1s., plus #103 2s. from tickets. Charges #60.] Paid Marshall, Timber Merchant, a Bill for Goods deliver'd for Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre #23 4s. (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Benefit Lalauze, who is oblig'd to change the play advertised for his Benefit on account of the Indisposition of a principal performer. The Tickets deliver'd out for Don Sebastian will be taken for this play (General Advertiser)

Event Comment: GGarrick taken ill acting Lear. Went thro the part (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #200 (Cross); #207 13s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Event Comment: TThe Rout published by a person of honor (Winston MS 8). Performance deferr'd on account of indisposition of a Principal Performer. Receipts: #120 (Cross); #123 16s. (Winston MS 8)