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H Lane, Covent Garden, and Goodman’s Fields. For much of the
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s٠k a company of Frcncli comedians, acting usually at tlie New Hay-
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groups gave special performances, and in tlie summer, after the
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Company at Drury Lane was forced by preparations for the winter
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close prematurely, two otlier troupe
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t(j Iiose prematurely, two otlier troupes-at Lincoln s inn fields
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regularly in July
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Fair was reduced, by edict, to three days, few of the bootlis
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n the past gave drolls and plays found it wortliwliile to open for
healing of the quarrel witilin Drury Lane did not inspire the
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at tile King’s Theatre, with considerable success; and Handel
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the House of Commons to restrain tlie number of playhouses
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iris ;( gif'late theatrical companies. Sponsored by Sir John Barnard, tlie
a n timber of petitions for and against it, and tlie progress of
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may be followed in the Journal of the House of Common
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April 1735. The bill failed of passage, but it elicited a great deal