1752

 

 

Jan 25, Delville

[Mrs. Delany to Mrs. Dewes, 26 January 1752]

 

Last Saturday [25 January] we were invited to the Primate’s to

hear music.  D. D. [Dr. Delany], Donnellan, and I went a little

before 7; it was the Duke of Dorset’s birthday, and

the entertainment given in honour of it. [... 81 ...]

Our music was chiefly Italian — the Stabat Mater,

sung by Guadagni (whom you heard sing in Mr. Handel’s

oratorios) and Mrs. Oldmixon; Dubourg the principal

violin: it was well performed, and some of the

duet parts are very pretty.  They had more music after

we left them, but we staid till nearly ten, which was

a late hour for us.  There was a great deal of good

company. [...][1]

 

 

 

Feb 14

AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden,

This Day will be performed an Oratorio, call’d

JOSHUA.

Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Person to be admitted

without Tickets. which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in

Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each.

First Gallery 5 s.    Second Gallery 3 s. 6 d.

Galleries to be open’d at Half an Hour after Four o’Clock.

Pit and Boxes at Five.

To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[2]

 

 

 

 

Feb 18, Delville

[Mrs. Delany to Mrs. Dewes, 18 February 1752]

 

[...] Last Monday we dined at Portico, &c., and went in

the evening to the oratorio of Joshua, but found it

excessively fatiguing, so hot, so crowded, and so

troublesome to get from, that we are resolved to go to

no more evening music; and I can’t say it was very

well performed.[3]

 

 

 

Feb 19

AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden,

This Day will be performed an Oratorio, call’d

JOSHUA.

Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Person to be admitted

without Tickets. which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in

Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each.

First Gallery 5 s.    Second Gallery 3 s. 6 d.

Galleries to be open’d at Half an Hour after Four o’Clock.

Pit and Boxes at Five.

To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[4]

 

 

 

 

Feb 21

AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden,

This Day will be performed

HERCULES.

Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Person to be admitted

without Tickets. which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in

Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each.

First Gallery 5 s.    Second Gallery 3 s. 6 d.

Galleries to be open’d at Half an Hour after Four o’Clock.

Pit and Boxes at Five.

To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[5]

 

 

 

 

[George Bubb Dodington’s Journal]

 

[February] 21 [1752].  Friday.  Went to the Oratorio [Jephtha?].[6]

 

 

 

Feb 22, Delville

[Mrs. Delany to Mrs. Dewes, 22 February 1752]

 

[...] Good company

and good conversation I should wish to have my niece

introduced into as soon as she can speak and understand,

but for all public places till after fifteen (except

a play or oratorio) she should not know what they

are, and then very rarely, and only with her mother

or aunt. [...][7]

 

 

 

Feb 26

AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden,

This Day, will be performed a new Oratorio, call’d

JEPTHA.

Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Person to be admitted

without Tickets. which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in

Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each.

First Gallery 5 s.    Second Gallery 3 s. 6 d.

Galleries to be open’d at Half an Hour after Four o’Clock.

Pit and Boxes at Five.

To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[8]

 

 

 

 

Feb 2[8]

AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden,

To-morrow, will be performed a new Oratorio, call’d

JEPTHA.

Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Person to be admitted

without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in

Covent Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each.

First Gallery 5 s.    Second Gallery 3 s. 6 d.

Galleries to be open’d at Half an Hour after Four o’Clock.

Pit and Boxes at Five.

To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[9]

 

 

 

 

Mar 4

AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden,

This Day, will be performed a new Oratorio, call’d

JEPTHA.

Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Person to be admitted

without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in

Covent Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each.

First Gallery 5 s.    Second Gallery 3 s. 6 d.

Galleries to be open’d at Half an Hour after Four o’Clock.

Pit and Boxes at Five.

To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[10]

 

 

 

 

Mar 6

AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden,

This Day, will be performed a[n] Oratorio, call’d

SAMSON.

Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Person to be admitted

without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in

Covent Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each.

First Gallery 5 s.    Second Gallery 3 s. 6 d.

Galleries to be open’d at Half an Hour after Four o’Clock.

Pit and Boxes at Five.

To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[11]

 

 

 

 

Mar 11

AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden,

This Day, will be performed an Oratorio, call’d

SAMSON.

Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Person to be admitted

without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in

Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each.

First Gallery 5 s.    Second Gallery 3 s. 6 d.

Galleries to be open’d at Half an Hour after Four o’Clock.

Pit and Boxes at Five.

To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[12]

 

 

 

 

Mar 11–mid April

213. (M.) Mary Sheel, was indicted for stealing

two guineas, one half guinea, and one ruby

stone, the goods of Ruben Adolphus, secretly

from his person, March 11. * [*= tried before the Right

Honourable Lord Chief Justice Lee]

Ruben Adolphus.  I was at the oratorio [Samson] in

Covent Garden, March 11, the prisoner was near

me, besides whom there was none but good

company:  I felt her hand about my breeches;

when she was gone, I put my hand down for

my purse, and found it gone, I went down to

an orange girl at the door and described the

prisoner; she said, the prisoner was then up

stairs, I went up and found her, I told her,

she had picked my pocket; I desired to have

her searched; I left her in custody; I went up

stairs to that part of the gallery, where I was

informed she had concealed herself; there I

found my purse and a little bit of paper by it,

which paper I believe to be the paper the ruby

stone was wrapt in; I came down again, and

asked her what she had done with my money.

She said she knew nothing of it.  The constable

said, he believed she had dropped something

under her; I looked down, and there

found my ruby stone; she was taken to the

round house and searched, of which the woman

who searched her will give an account.

Q.  What money did you loose?

Adolphus.  I had three half guineas and one

guinea in gold in my pocket, in my purse,

which were gone, when I felt in my pocket.

John Rice.  I am constable.  I was called to

take charge of the prisoner, I had her under the

stairs at the door, while the prosecutor went up

to look for his purse with the gallery keeper:

I saw her fumbling about her pocket, then I

imagined she wanted to drop something out of

it; he came down, and said, he had found the

purse, and bid me take her before the justice.

I bid him look under her, saying, I thought she

had dropt something, he took the candle and

looked, and there he found the ruby stone.

(The stone produced and deposed to by the prosecutor.)

Joyce Carey.  The prisoner was brought to

Covent Garden watch[h]ouse, they were going to

search her; I desired the men to go away and I

would: I did, and found half a guinea conceal’d

in her mouth, there were only a shilling and

some half-pence in her pocket.

 

Prisoner’s defence.

I am a very honest girl, I came up from out

of the country for a service about three weeks

before.  Acquitted.[13]

 

 

 

Mar 13

AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden,

This Day, will be performed an Oratorio, call’d

SAMSON.

Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Person to be admitted

without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in

Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each.

First Gallery 5 s.    Second Gallery 3 s. 6 d.

Galleries to be open’d at Half an Hour after Four o’Clock.

Pit and Boxes at Five.

To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[14]

 

 

 

 

Mar 18

AT the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden,

This Day, will be performed an Oratorio, call’d

JUDAS MACCHABAEUS.

Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Person to be admitted

without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in

Covent Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each.

First Gal[l]ery 5 s.    Second Gallery 3 s. 6 d.

Galleries to be open’d at Half an Hour after Four o’Clock.

Pit and Boxes at Five.

To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[15]

 

 

 

 

Mar 20

AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden,

This Day, will be performed an Oratorio, call’d

JUDAS MACCHABAEUS.

Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Person to be admitted

without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in

Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each.

First Gallery 5 s.    Second Gallery 3 s. 6 d.

Galleries to be open’d at Half an Hour after Four o’Clock.

Pit and Boxes at Five.

To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[16]

 

 

 

 

Mar 25

AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden,

This Day, will be performed a sacred Oratorio, call’d

MESSIAH.

Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Person to be admitted

without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in

Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each.

First Gallery 5 s.    Second Gallery 3 s. 6 d.

Galleries to be open’d at Half an Hour after Four o’Clock.

Pit and Boxes at Five.

To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[17]

 

 

 

 

Mar 26

AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden,

This Day, will be performed an Oratorio, call’d

MESSIAH.

Being the Last this Year.

Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Person to be admitted

without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in

Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each.

First Gallery 5 s.    Second Gallery 3 s. 6 d.

Galleries to be open’d at Half an Hour after Four o’Clock.

Pit and Boxes at Five.

To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[18]

 

 

 

 

Mar 31

When Mr. Handel first exhibited his

Allegro and Penseroso, there were two

ingenious Gentlemen who had bought a

Book of the Words, and thought to divert

themselves by reading it before the

Performance began.  Zounds (cried one of

them) what damn’d Stuff this is!—Damn’d

Stuff indeed, replied his Friend.  God so!

(replied the other, who then first cast his

Eyes on the Title-Page) the Words are

Milton’s.[19]

 

 

 

Apr 7, Delville

[Mrs Delany to Mrs Dewes, 7 April 1752]

 

Tell my brother I have received Joshua safe, but not

the bottle of salts. [...][20]

 

 

 

Apr 9

[letter by “Tragicomicus” dated Apr. 9 1752,

strongly reacting to a pamphlet by a Cambridge scholar

who stresses the need of having chorus in modern tragedy]

 

N. B. I have no Objection to the Choruses

of the immortal Handel.[21]

 

 

 

Apr 11

Yesterday Mr. Handel’s Oratorio of the

Messiah, at the Foundling Hospital, began at Noon. 

Between the first and second Acts a Concerto was

played, in which Mr. Handel performed on the

Organ, as he did all along.  Between the second

and third Acts he played a Voluntary; and the

whole Performance was conducted to the Satisfaction

of the Audience who quite filled the Chapel. 

Id. [=London Daily Advertiser][22]

 

 

 

Apr 14

On Saturday ten Boys and ten Girls, out of

sixty Children which were offered, were admitted

into the Foundling-Hospital.  The Number of

Tickets given out for Mr. Handel’s Oratorio of

the Messiah, performed in the Chapel there last

Thursday, amounted to twelve hundred, at Half

a Guinea each.  The Chapel has been lately

adorned with three beautiful Chandeliers, finely

gilt; [...]  Id. [=London Daily Advertiser][23]

 

 

 

On Saturday ten Boys and ten Girls, out of sixty children which were offered, were admitted into the Foundling-hospital.  The number of tickets given out for Mr. Handel’s Oratorio of the Messiah, performed in the chapel there last Thursday se’nnight, amounted to 1200, at half a Guinea each.[24]

 

 

 

Apr 29

Wednesday was preached at St. Anne’s church, Westminster, a most excellent sermon by the Rev. Dr. Thomas, Rector of Bletchingly in Surry, and chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, before the governors of the Middlesex hospital, in recommendation of that Charity, where were present a very polite and numerous company of Ladies, when Mr. Handel’s new Te Deum and Coronation Anthem, with Dr. Boyce’s new Anthem, were vocally and Instrumentally performed.  The collection Collection [sic] amounted to 96l. 5s.  The gentlemen then proceeded to the great room in Dean street, to dine with Sir Peter Warren, Knt. and Sir Kenrick Clayton, Knt. two of the vice president of that Hospital and the stewards, where were present several gentlemen of quality and distinction, and a very numerous company of governors and others.  The collection after dinner, (which was very elegant) amounted to 119l. 12s. of which 71l. 8s. are new and annual subscriptions.[25]

 

 

Yesterday was preached at St. Ann’s Church,

Westminster, a most excellent Sermon, by the

Rev. Dr. Thomas, Rector of Bletchingly in Surry,

and Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty,

before the Governors of he Middlesex Hospital, [4]

in Recommendation of that Charity, where

were present a very polite and numerous Company

of Ladies, when Mr. Handell’s new Te

Deum and Coronation Anthem, with Dr. Boyce’s

new Anthem, were vocally and instrumentally

performed under the Conduct of Dr. Boyce, to

whose great Judgment, Care, and Pains it was

owing that the Whole was managed with the

utmost Perfection; and the Suitableness of the

Number of Instruments and Voices to the Church

had the best Effect.  In the Vocal Part Mr.

Beard greatly contributed to the Harmony, and

nothing ever gave more Satisfaction.  The

Collection which was made of, and at the Desire of

the Ladies, amounted to 96 l. 5 s. at this late

Season of the Year.  The Gentlemen then proceeded

to the Great Room in Dean-street, to dine

with Sir Peter Warren, Knt. and Sir Kenrick

Clayton, Knt. two of the Vice Presidents of that

Hospital and the Stewards, where were present

several Gentlemen of Quality and Distinction, and

a very numerous Company of Governors and

others.  The Collection after the Dinner, (which

was very elegant) on occasion of the Charity,

amounted to 119 l. 12 s. of which 71 l. 8 s. are new

annual Subscriptions.  Several loyal Healths,

with Success to the Charity, and to the

Subscription for the intended Building were drank,

and the Whole was carried on with the greatest

Zeal, and concluded with the utmost

Harmony.  Id. [=London Daily Advertiser][26]

 

 

 

Jun 27

On Thursday the 2d of July will be celebrated

at Oxford, the Anniversary Commemoration of

the Benefactors to that University, according to

the Institution of Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham. 

On which Occasion there will be a grand Performance

of Music in the Theatre, and a Speech by

the public Orator.  There will likewise be an

Oratorio in the Music Room, on Wednesday

Evening, and another the Friday following.  Id.

[= London Daily Advertiser][27]

 

 

 

Jul 20

Monday died Dr. Pepusch, Organist of the

Chartehouse; celebrated for his fine Musical

Composition [sic].[28]

 

 

 

Aug 8

We hear that George Frederick Handel, Esq;

the celebrated Composer of Music, was seized a

few Days ago with a Paralytick Disorder in his

Head, which has deprived him of Sight.[29]

 

 

 

September

“A Letter from the COUNTRY to a young LADY in London”

[…]

Another prospect charms the eye and ear,

The scenes how fine! how soft the lulling air!

There sacred musick holds her tuneful choir,

Brown draws the bow, & Handel strikes the lyre:

He the nice clue of harmony has found,

Handel the genius sure himself of sound.

There vocal Stevenson, with liquid lay,

Dissolves our sympathetic souls away.

Now on the swelling sounds to heav’n we fly,

Now with the saint expiring notes we die!

Yet, Mira, scenes like these, too quickly cloy,

Excess of sweetness will itself destroy.

Pleasures deriv’d from sense but short endure,

’Tis reason only makes the blessing sure.[30]

 

 

 

 

Nov 3

Yesterday George-Frederick Handel, Esq; was couch’d

by William Bromfield, Esq; Surgeon to her Royal Highness

the Princess of Wales, when it was thought there

was all imaginable Hopes of Success by the Operation,

which must give the greatest Pleasure to all Lovers of

Musick.[31]

 

 

 

Nov 25, Delville

[Mrs. Delany to Mrs. Dewes, 25 November 1752]

 

[...] Poor Handel! how feelingly must he

recollect the “total eclipse:” I hear he has now been

couched, and found some benefit from it.[32]

 

 

 

Dec 14, Delville

[Mrs. Delany to Mrs. Dewes, 15 December 1752]

 

[...] Yesterday morning we went to

the rehearsal of the “Messiah,” it was very tolerably

performed.  I was a little afraid of it, as I think the

music very affecting, and I found it so — but am glad I

went, as I felt great comfort from it, and I had the

good fortune to have Mrs. Bernard sit by me, the

Primate’s sister, a most worthy sensible woman, of

an exalted mind; it adds greatly to the satisfaction

of such an entertainment to be seated by those who

have the same relish for it we have ourselves.  The

babblers of my acquaintance were at a distance, indeed I

took care to place myself as far from them as I could.

Do you remember our snug enjoyment of Theodora?

I could not help thinking with great concern of poor

Handel, and lamenting his dark and melancholy

circumstances; but his mind I hope will still be enlightened

for the benefit of all true lovers of harmony. [...][33]

 

 

 

[“THE PRINCESSES AMELIA AND CAROLINA.”]

Musick-Master, George-Fred. Handel, Esq; 200l.[34]

 

 

 

CHAP. XIX.

Mr. Samuel Wilful is introduced to Miss Maria; his Behaviour, Success, &c.

WHEN Mr. Samuel Wilful was informed of Silvius’s good Success in his Behalf, with the lovely Maria; none but such faithful passionate Lovers can conceive his rapturous Transports.  His Ears conveyed the sweet Musick to his Brian, in as ravishing Notes as those of Handel’s Touches; his Blood, in quicker Pulses, beat on eager Time, like some Merry-Andrew on a rattling Salt-Box:[35]

 

 

 

[…] as for Poetry I have not seen any thing published lately worthy to be called so, except wat I rote myself, for I rite sumtimes, and have publish’d.  I am likewise bekum a grate Kunnisoer in Musik, and can play almost a hole Tune upon the common Flute; I go to Handel’s Oratores, which are wastly admierd by [11] several Persons of Taste, and therefore I applaud um, because won would not be particler you know, but really in my Judgment, and I think I no as much of these Matters as any of um, I am sure I have heard better Musik at a Cuntary fare.[36]

 

 

 

[...] arrived at Vauxhall at seven o’clock.  The garden strikes the eye prodigiously, as it is set with many rows of tall trees, kept in excellent order, among which are placed an incredible number of globe lamps, by which it is illuminated; and when they are lighted, the sound of the music ravishing the ear, added to the great resort of company so well dressed, and walking all about, would almost make one [95] believe he was in the Elysian Fields: [...] This is a general place of rendezvous, where intrigues of all sorts are commonly carried on, and pity it is that so enchanting a place is so often made the instrument of so much wickedness.  Many women in some sort owe their ruin to it, for, when their spirits are so much elevated by all these charms, they seldom are capable of reflection, and do not consider of the harm till it is too late. [...] As I do not pretend to set up for a reformer of the times, I shall not dwell farther on this subject, [...]

In the middle of the garden are two [96] semicircles which appear like an amphitheatre, in which are placed a great number of small booths, which may contain about six or eight people a-piece, where they commonly refresh themselves with sweetmeats, wine, tea, coffee, or such like.  The backs of these boxes, or booths, are adorned with curious paintings, all which are enlightened to the front with globes.  They are all numbered, and very just attendance is given by a vast number of waiters kept for that purpose.  Near to this is a grand orchestra, where the music plays in fine weather; but this night the concert was held in a magnificent hall neatly furnished.  At one side of the orchestra is a noble statue of Handel.  The music no sooner began than we entered the hall, where fifty-four musicians performed.  Mr. Lowe soon sang, whose character I need not here mention, and after him the inimitable Miss Burchell, whose voice I believe exceeds all in Europe. [... 97 ...] When she was done, the formerly celebrated Miss Stephens performed, before accounted the best singer in Great Britain, but indeed her voice seemed very insipid after that of Miss Burchell.

[94-97]

 

The Poets chiefly lie at the west end of the Abbey, and have handsome monuments, with inscriptions à propos to the genius of him who is interred.  I shall set down a few of ’em as they are placed:—Gay, Rowe, Shakespeare, Shadwell, Milton, Prior, Butler, Ben Jonson, J. Dryden.  I stood some time buried in thought and contemplation on viewing the place where these great men lay, who, though [they] had here but a few stones erected to their memories, yet had left behind them immortal monuments, which can reach to the remotest nation; whereas the stately tombs which are set up to a Duke at vast expense lie confined amongst these walls, and can afford no other satisfaction than that of admiring the work of the artist, when perhaps we hardly know the name of him who is therein.  But the monument of a genius is everywhere dispersed, and gives us a deep sense of the loss; which, I believe, was the original intent of this kind of building, when they would remember a man who had been of signal service; but the meaning is lost, because [121] every blockhead who has money can have one raised.

[120-21][37]

 

 

 

                  A PARTY was about this time proposed at the other End of the Room by Lady Revell, at which an Oratorio, performed compleat, was to make Part of the Evening’s Entertainment.  Mr. Handell, who was present, was sollicited [sic] to tell them which of his Performances of this kind could be executed with the smallest Number of Hands; but his Answer was, that they could have no Hands at all on the Night they mentioned, for that the whole Band he had been used to employ were engaged for that Evening at one of the Gentleman’s Concerts who was just gone out of the Room.  Every body was upon the full Stare at such a Piece of Intelligence, and twenty People at once were expressing their Surprize that they had never heard of any of these Performances; when a Lady, planted among the thickest of them for that Purpose, declared, that she had twice had the Honour of being there, but that she did not wonder the thing was not more talked of, as it was wholly for the Gentleman’s own Entertainment, and he only admitted three or four select Friends.[38]

 



[1] The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), 3:80-81.

[2] The General Advertiser, no. 5405, Friday 14 February 1752, [2].

[3] The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), 3:90.

[4] The General Advertiser, no. 5409, Wednesday 19 February 1752, [2].

[5] The General Advertiser, no. 5411, Friday 21 February 1752, [2].

[6] The Political Journal of George Bubb Dodington, ed. John Carswell and Lewis Arnold Dralle (Oxford: Clarendon, 1965), 147; Chrissochoidis, 820.

[7] The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), 3:92.

[8] The General Advertiser, no. 5415, Wednesday 26 February 1752, [2].

[9] The General Advertiser, no. 5416, Thursday 27 February 1752, [2].

[10] The General Advertiser, no. 5421, Wednesday 4 March 1752, [2].

[11] The General Advertiser, no. 5423, Friday 6 March 1752, [1].

[12] The General Advertiser, no. 5427, Wednesday 11 March 1752, [1].

[13] The Proceedings on the King’s Commissions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Goal Delivery for the City of London; and also the Goal Delivery for the County of Middlesex, held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, on Wednesday the 8th, Thursday the 9th, Friday the 10th, Saturday the 11th, Monday the 13th, and Tuesday the 14th of April.  In the 25th Year of His Majesty’s Reign [...] Number IV (London: M. Cooper, 1752), 125.

[14] The General Advertiser, no. 5429, Friday 13 March 1752, [1].

[15] The General Advertiser, no. 5433, Wednesday 18 March 1752, [2].

[16] The General Advertiser, no. 5435, Friday 20 March 1752, [2].

[17] The General Advertiser, no. 5439, Wednesday 25 March 1752, [1].

[18] The General Advertiser, no. 5440, Thursday 26 March 1752, [1].

[19] The Covent-Garden Journal, no. 26, Tuesday 31 March 1752, [1].

[20] The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), 3:110.

[21] The Covent-Garden Journal, no. 62, Saturday 16 September 1752, [1].

[22] The Covent-Garden Journal, no. 29, Saturday 11 April 1752, [4].

[23] The Covent-Garden Journal, no. 30, Tuesday 14 April 1752, [3].

[24] Old England: Or, The National Gazette, Saturday 18 April 1752, [2]; Chrissochoidis, 820.

[25] Old England: Or, The National Gazette, Saturday 2 May 1752, [2]; Chrissochoidis, 820.

[26] The Covent-Garden Journal, no. 35, Saturday 2 May 1752, [3-4].

[27] The Covent-Garden Journal, no. 51, Saturday 27 June 1752, [3].

[28] The Covent-Garden Journal, no. 56, Saturday 25 July 1752, [4].

[29] The Covent-Garden Journal, no. 58, Saturday 8 August 1752, [4].

[30] The Gentleman’s Magazine 22 (1752), 426; Chrissochoidis, 820-21.

[31] The General Advertiser, no. 5622, Saturday 4 November 1752, [1]; repr. (from the Theatrical Register, and wrongly dated 4 May), Schoelcher, 321; reported, William C. Smith, “Handeliana,” Music & Letters 31 (1950), 125-32: 127.

[32] The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), 3:177.

[33] The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), 3:184.

[34] The English Registry, for the Year of our Lord, 1752 (Dublin: Sar. And John Exshaw, 1752), 52; Chrissochoidis, 820.

[35] [W. Goodall], The Adventures of Capt. Greenland, 4 vols. (London: R. Baldwin, 1752), 1:215; Chrissochoidis, 821.

[36] A New Tale of an Old Tube: Or, the Way to Fame.  An Odd Sort of a Story (London: M. Cooper, 1752), 10-11; Chrissochoidis, 821.

[37] Narrative of the Journey of an Irish Gentleman through England in the Year 1752.  Edited from a Contemporary Manuscript, with a few illustrative Notes (London: Chiswick Press, 1869), 94-97, 120-21 [printed in 50 copies]; Chrissochoidis, 821-22.

[38] The Adventures of a Valet.  Written by Himself, 2 vols. (London: J. Robinson, 1752), 1:89; Chrissochoidis, 822.