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Mainpiece Title: Hannah Hewit Or The Female Crusoe

Afterpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Song: End I 1st piece: The Sailor's Consolation- made into a Song and Chorus

Event Comment: Benefit for Murray. 1st piece: By Permission of the Author [Walsh Porter], and the Manager of the Theatre Royal Bath [William Wyatt Dimond]. [This was 1st acted at Bath, 27 Feb. 1798. It refers to the nation-wide attempt, being made at this time, to raise funds by voluntary contribution for the defense of the country. And see 9 Feb. Larpent MS 1197; not published. Miss Murray's 1st appearance on the stage was at Bristol, 1 July 1793.] Times, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Murray, No. 77, Long Acre. Receipts: #198 17s. (102.6.0; 4.1.6; tickets: 92.9.6)

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Mainpiece Title: Voluntary Contributions

Performance Comment: Irishman-Johnstone; Englishman-Murray; Mail Coach Guard-Townsend; Ostler-Powel; Serjeant-Farley; Old Soldier-Thompson; Son-Simmons; Scotchman-Wilde; Welchman-Rees; Hawker-Gray; 2nd Irishman-Dyke; 2nd Sailor-Abbot; 1st Sailor-Farley [i.e. doubled Serjeant]; Old Woman-Mrs Henley; Persons represented in the Allegorical Action: Genius of the Isle; Demon of Discord; Children of Britain; Peace, with her Attributes; Britannia-Miss Chapman.

Afterpiece Title: Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita or The Sheep Shearing

Song: End 1st piece: Black Ey'd Susan-; End 2nd piece: Admiral Benbow-Incledon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Shes Eloped

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull, Mrs Litchfield & Waddy. 1st piece [1st time; C 5, by Thomas Hull. Larpent MS 1215; not published]: Altered from [The Bashful Lover, by] Massinger. [In it the playbill assigns Hortensio to Pope, but he was ill, and in his "stead Johnston read the part of Hortensio" (European Magazine, June 1798, p. 396). Prologue by John Taylor Poems (I, 60).] Morning Herald, 29 May: Tickets to be had of Hull, Duke's Court, Dean's-yard, Westminster; of Mrs Litchfield, James-street, Covent-Garden; of Waddy, No. 214, opposite Southampton-street, High Holborn. Receipts: #261 2s. 6d. (53.9.6; 4.16.6; tickets: 202.16.6; of which Hull took #72 7s.; Mrs Litchfield #60 17s., Waddy #69 12s. 6d.)

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Mainpiece Title: Disinterested Love

Afterpiece Title: Starboard Watch

Performance Comment: The Sailor's Carousal; or, Saturday Night at Sea As17980528, but added: The Medley of Lovers-Munden; Jack at the Windlass-_; Farewell to Old England dear Mary adieu-_.
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Role: Landscape and Water Actor: Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Performance Comment: As17971101, but M'Gilpin-Waddy; Moggy-Mrs Litchfield; added: Croudy-Davenport.

Entertainment: Monologue.Preceding 1st piece: a new Occasional Prologue-Holman

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Henry Lee. Larpent MS 1221; not published in this form, but altered by the author in 3 acts, as Caleb Quotem and His Wife!; or, Paint, Poetry, and Putty (J. Roach, 1809)]: The Musick by Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "Suett was, as he always is on a first night, most shamefully imperfect" (Monthly Mirror, July 1798, p. 52). [For Lee's accusing Colman, in his The Review, of plagiarism, see Genest, VII, 387-90. And see 1 Sept. 1800.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Performance Comment: As17980612 but La Varenne-Palmer Jun.; Egbert-Abbot.

Afterpiece Title: Throw Physick to the Dogs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Music: As17980915

Dance: As17980915

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Twins or Is It He or his Brother

Song: By permission of Dibdin End I: Advice; or, Old Mary and John-Bannister Jun; End II: The Country Club-Bannister Jun; III: Tom Tough-Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: First Faults

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

Dance: End: Minuet de la Cour-Miss DeCamp, Mlle Parisot

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Performance Comment: As17981003, but Goldfinch (for that night only)-Knight; Sophia-Miss A. DeCamp (1st appearance on any stage); Smith-_; Marker-_; Jacob-_; Sheriff's Officer-_; Tradesmen-_; Milliner-_; Mantua@maker-_.

Afterpiece Title: Tagg in Tribulation

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Song: End II: song-Incledon; End: Old Towler-Incledon; The Beggar's Song-Townsend

Entertainment: A Variety of Imitations-Rees

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces The Irish Widow, but on the Kemble playbill this is deleted, and a MS annotation substitutes The Purse.] Receipts: #416 (380.7; 35.1; 0.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Afterpiece Title: The Purse

Song: As17990529

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: The London Hermit

Afterpiece Title: Fortunes Frolick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew And The Doctor

Performance Comment: As17990627 but Doctor Specific-Davenport; Old Bromley-Suett.

Afterpiece Title: The Iron Chest

Performance Comment: As17990727 but Rawbold-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Liston]).Liston]).
Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces The Heir at Law (Ninth time this Season [see 29 Aug.]), but in the hay playbill now at Harvard it is deleted, and a MS annotation substitutes The Battle of Hexham. Afterpiece in place of The Jew and the Doctor, advertised on playbill of 17 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Embarkation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wise Man Of The East

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Performance Comment: As18000215, but Prologue-_ [and thereafter]. Epilogue as18000208 .and thereafter]. Epilogue as18000208 .

Afterpiece Title: True Friends

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: The Children or Give Them their Way

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. [In 1st piece the playbill retains Mrs Martyr as Dolly, but "Dolly was undertaken at a short notice, by Mrs Chapman, upon the sudden indisposition of Mrs Martyr" (Monthly Mirror, June 1800, p. 366). "In consequence of Mrs Martyr's accouchement...the part of Dolly was sustained by Miss Sims" (Dramatic Censor, II, 140).] 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: To conclude with a Representation of the Storming the City of Acrev by the French [17 Mar.-20 May 1799], and the Heroic Defence made by the Turkish Troops led on by the British Sailors [under the command of Sir Sidney Smith]. Morning Chronicle, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 16, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #333 4s. 6d. (118.3.6; 11.16.6; tickets: 203.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Performance Comment: As18000415, but Dolly-Mrs Chapman [or Miss Sims?].or Miss Sims?].

Afterpiece Title: The Siege of Acre

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Performance Comment: As17991024, but Mrs Changeable-Mrs Mattocks.

Song: End I 1st piece: The Last Shilling (composed by Dibdin)-Incledon; (in the Course of the Evening) Old Towler-Incledon; In Scene I 2nd piece: by Permission of Dibdin, his following popular songs: The Sailor's Journal-Incledon; The Anchor Smiths-Townsend; All Hands to the Anchor-Fawcett; Jacky and the Cow-Munden; The Advantage of Toping-Townsend; A Comic Irish Song-Johnstone

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Indiscretion

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Song: [not listed on playbill.]In: I rise with the morn-Mrs Jordan; IV: a Glee-Dignum, Trueman, Danby (Dramatic Censor, II, 169, 171)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia Of Armenia

Dance: As18000513

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: Of Age To morrow

Song: III: a new song (composed by Kelly)-Mme Bolla

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As18000611 but Maria-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Usher]).Miss Usher]).
Event Comment: See Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 169, for a fee of #20 paid to Sir William Davenant's@company, the receipt being signed by Richard Baddeley; and for #1 5s. for baize to cover the stage and scenes. The play may well have been Love and Honour

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

Event Comment: A play, unidentified, was given by the Duke's Company at this time. The customary fee of #20 was paid. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, II

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