LONDON STREET MERCHANTS: MATCH BOYS
ETCHED BY J. T. SMITH
This year a stop was put to tea-drinking in the Gardens on Sunday evenings.
Mr. Lowe offered a reward of ten guineas for the apprehension of any highwayman found on the road to the Gardens.[108]
1765.—This year, Mrs. Collett, Miss Davis, and Mrs. Taylor were the singers.
1766.—£1, 11s. 6d. was the subscription for two persons for the season. The doors opened on the 1st of May, at six o’clock, and the Gardens closed on the 4th of October, for the season. The principal singers were, Tommy Lowe, Taylor, Raworth, Vincent, and Miss Davis. I have an engraving of a Subscription Ticket, inscribed “No. 222, Marybone, admit two, 1766.” As this ticket is adorned by two palm-branches, surmounted with two French-horns, and has also a music book, I conclude it must have been used on a concert night. This year an exhibition of bees took place in the Gardens, and the public were again accommodated with tea at eightpence per head.
1767.—Mrs. Gibbons was a singer there this season.
1768.—Lowe gave up the Gardens, declaring his loss in the concern to have been considerable.[109]