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Event Comment: Forty-seventh Day. Being the last Time of performing it this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 Years. Afterpiece: Acted for the last time these Holidays. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #137 6d. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: Emperour of the Moon

Music: As17481226

Dance: SSailors Revels,as17481227; Black Joke, as17481227

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Forty-eighth Day. Being positively the last time of performing it this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. A concert, etc. Last time of performing. To begin exactly at six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Peace Proclaim'd (Cross). Yesterday most of the Foreign Ministers had a very grand entertainment at Pontack's, on Account of the Peace being proclaimed yesterday at Paris. This morning the Peace is to be proclaim'd, pursuant to his majesty's royal warrant, signed for that purpose, the ceremony of which is to be in the following manner (General Advertiser). [Follows an account of the five places and times of reading the proclamation throughout the city.] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #116 15s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Mathews, Mrs Addison; New Scotch Dance, as17490118

Music: By Desire-the Child

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Benefit for a performer. To begin at half an hour after Six. Being the last time of performing this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: Benefit for a performer. Tickets for the 11th will be taken. Being the last time of performing it this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: This month, as recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine Register of Books, was published A General History of the Stage, from its origin in Greece down to the present time. With the Memoirs of most of the principal performers that have appeared on the English and Irish Stage. With notes antient and modern, foreign, domestic, serious, comic, moral, merry, historical, and geographical. Containing many theatrical anecdotes; also several pieces of poetry never before published. Collected and digested by W. R. Chetwood, twenty years prompter to His Majesty's Company of Comedians at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. Printed for W. Owen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: Being the last time of performing the afterpiece this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard (Cross). Being the last time of performing The Foundling this season. Pit and Boxes laid together, &c as on 7 March. Tickets at Mrs Pritchard's Duke's Court, Bow St., Covent Garden. Receipts: #180 (Cross). house charges, #60. N.B.: I shall subtract ten guineas from this charge as before ((Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: Cooke, the Aurettis

Event Comment: Last time of the Company's acting till the Easter Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part Ii

Cast
Role: Hastings Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Fire at Honiton (Cross). For the sufferers at the town of Honiton by fire. This Benefit was given at the request of a gentleman of Distinction, who is Mr Garrick's particular Friend (Powel). Being the last time of the company's performing till the Holidays. Receipts: #200 (Cross). Charges to the sufferers, #70; tickets were: #199 10s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Dance: I: Savoyards, as17480920; V: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027

Music: II: Concerto on Flute, as17480917

Event Comment: Benefit for Berry. Tickets to be had of Berry at Mr Pope's, Peruke Maker in Russel St., Covent Garden and of Hobson at the Stage Door. [From the Gentleman's Magazine Register of Books for this month: An Account of the Life of that Celebrated Tragedian, Mr Thomas Betterton, containing a distinct relation of his excellencies in his profession and character in private life, and interspersed with an account of the English theatre during his time. Printed for J. Robinson.] Receipts: #160 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Balthasar Actor: Bransby

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: In I: a Dutch Dance, as17481203; Savoyards, as17480920

Event Comment: First time of performance. The Company to be waited on by two Knights, from the Land's End, and a Brace of Cats from Italy. The Ladies and Gentlemen are desired to leave their Lapdogs and Spaniels at home because of the Cats. To begin exactly at twelve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Knights

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Green. Being the last time of performing the mainpiece this season. Tickets of Mrs Green in Broad Court, Bow St., Covent Garden. There is now in Rehearsal a new Tragedy called Merope. Receipts: #140 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Hastings Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Benefit for Blakes. Tickets at his house in Cranbourne Alley, Leicester Fields, and of Hobson at the stage door. Being positively the last time of [Barry's] performing Macbeth this season. Receipts. #140 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: Hornpipe-the Little Swiss (not 5 years old) scholar to Mathews; End of Play: The Savoyards, as17480920

Event Comment: Being the last time of acting the Mainpiece this season. Mrs Cibber Sick. Mrs Pritchard play'd Sullen (Cross). Receipts. #180 (Cross); #149 2s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat with Additions

Dance: DDutch Dance, as17481203; IV: Scotch Dance-Cooke, Anne Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Mills and Wife (Cross). Three rows of the Pit will be laid into Boxes. Tickets and places to be had of Mills at Gardyner's Printing Office, in Russel St., Covent Garden; or of Hobson at the stage door. Servants allowed to keep places on the stage. Last time of acting the opera this season. Receipts: #240 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: I: (By Desire) Savoyards, as17480920; II: Dutch Dance, as17481203

Music: Between Play and Afterpiece: a piece of Music-the Child

Event Comment: Being the last time of performing the mainpiece this season. Tickets deliver'd out for this night will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. Thanksgiving for ye Peace-a Jubilee at Renalaugh (Cross). Being the last time of performing the play [Merope] this season. It is oblig'd to be deferr'd till next season on account of the Benefits. Receipts: #140 (Cross); charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Dance: As17490422

Event Comment: Benefit for Pritchard. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire, and the last time of performing it. Tickets and places to be had of Pritchard at his House in Duke's, late Earl's Court, Bow Street, Covent Garden, and of Hobson at the stage Door. Ladies are Desired to send their Servants by three o'clock. Receipts: #200 (Cross); charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat The Anatomist

Event Comment: Being the last time of the company's performing this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Performance Comment: Zanga-Keale; from Theatre at Fort St. George, his second time in England. With a Prologue-; Epilogue-.

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding or The Cockneys Bit

Event Comment: Benefit Coustos. Last time this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lopera Du Gueux

Dance: DDance a la Ronde-

Event Comment: [At Lee, Yeates, and Warner's Booth, opposite the Hospital Gate, West Smithfield. The Droll performed in the same Manner as it was by Mrs Lee Fifteen Years ago. Prices: 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d. To begin at twelve noon. [Same time and prices throughout.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of Whittington Thrice Lord Mayor Of London

Dance: [Between the acts: Entertainments of Dancing-

Song: [Between the acts: Entertainments of Singing-; A good Band of Musick