[242] Elfrida; Caractacus.
[243] Rosamunda.
[244] Love in a Village, &c.
[245] The Waterman, &c.
[246] Pasquin; The Historical Register for 1736.
[247] The Golden Rump.
[248] The first dramatic performance licensed by the lord chamberlain after the passing of the act was appropriately entitled The Nest of Plays, and consisted of three comedies named respectively The Prodigal Reformed, In Happy Constancy and The Trial of Conjugal Love. It is a curious fact that in the first decade of the reign of George III. a severe control of the theatre was very actively exerted after a positive as well as a negative fashion—objectionable passages being ruthlessly suppressed and plays actually written and licensed for the purpose of upholding the existing régime.
[249] J. Townley, High Life Below Stairs (1759).
[250] The Minor; Taste; The Author, &c.
[251] This celebrated play was at first persistently attributed to Miss Elizabeth Carter.