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NYGWPB.761.048
23 Apr 1761:21 (955)
London, Dec. 30. His Majesty was attended in the stage box
at Drury-Lane theatre on Friday night, by his grace, the
Duke of Devonshire Lord High Chamberlain, bearing his wand,
and the Earl of Bute.
Her Royal Highness the Princess dowegar [sic] of Wales,
the Duke of York, Lady Augusta, and the rest of the Royal
Family were seated in the opposite box to his majesty.
As soon as the King entered the play-house at the stage
door, the music shifted, from the tune they were then
playing, to that of God Save the King. His Majesty entered
the box making a low reverence to the Royal Family, (who
came some time before him) and then bowed to the audience,
who received him with loud acclamation of joy, clapping,
huzzaing, and bearing chorus with the musick.
The managers had, on this occasion, erected very elegant
new canopies over the seats of the Royal Family; . . . [8
lines]
The crowd was so great, that many people were almost
suffocated in the subterraneous passages leading to the pit;
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