, and produced an actress who drew money to Charles Shadwell's comedy,

The Fair Quaker of Deal.

At the close of the season Collier agreed with Swiney and his actor-colleagues to give up to them

Drury Lane

with its actors, take in exchange the

Haymarket

with its singers, and be sole Director of the Opera; the actors to pay Collier two hundred a year for the use of his license, and to close their house on the Wednesdays when an opera was played.

This was the relative position of

Drury Lane

and the