Event Comment: To begin exactly at 6:00 o'clock. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for
the Boxes to be had of
Mr Varney at
the Stage door. [Repeated throughout
the season.] Ye
Naturalizing Bill having made some Noise against
the Jews, some people call'd out for ye
Merchant of Venice, & a Letter was thrown upon ye Stage desiring that play instead of
the Opera, but we took no Notice of it, some little hissing but it dy'd away (
Cross). [Sometime in
the calendar year 1753,
Lacy and
Garrick drew up a mortgage on
the Drury Lane property for #10,000, to be amortized to
James Clutterbuck over a period of twenty-one years at
the rate of #4 per acting night, and per
mission to grant free seats in any part of
the theatre (except
the stage, scenes and orchestra) to forty persons.
These latter to be named and seats assigned ten days prior to
the opening of any season. This thirteen-page document, which describes accurately
the bounds of
the 13,134 square feet of land on which
the ten buildings comprising Drury Lane
Theatre stood, contains protective clauses for Clutterbuck, to
the effect that Garrick and Lacy will exhibit nowhere else in
London without
the #4 nightly payment and for Garrick and Lacy, to
the effect that arrears in payment could be collected solely from Drury Lane property, and not from
the individual incomes of
the mortgagees. It was not signed, so apprently was not executed. (See
Havard, Collection of Documents dealing with affairs of Drury Lane, No 2, fMS, Thr 12.)] Receipts: #150 (Cross)