Add MS 12201

Copy of Mr. Hargrave's Observations in respect to the objection to the Patent to Killgrew [to act plays and operas, granted by Charles the Second, in 1662] on the ground of merger and dormancy, dat. March, 1793. Annexed are copies of i. Articles of agreement between Sir Richard Steele and others, managers of Drury Lane Theatre, and John Rich and Christopher Mosier Rich, managers of the Lincoln's Inn Fields playhouse, dat. 12 April, 1722; ii. Extract from an assignment of a lease of Drury Lane theatre, from Charles Davenport, LL.D. and others to Alexander Davenant, dat. 30 Aug. 1687 ; iii. Extract from a lease of a messuage iii the parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden, from John Rich to Henry Bolney, dat. 28 Sept. 1736; iv. Extract from a mortgage of the same, dat. 3 Nov. 1743 ; v. Extract from a mortgage of the same, dat. 25 March, 1760 ; vi. Schedule of the Properties belonging to Covent Garden theatre, referred to in an indenture of assignment made 30 Jan. 1744 between John Rich, Martha Launder, and Hutchinson Mure; vii. Petition from Charles Killigrew to Queen Anne [without date, but in 1707]; viii. Petition from the Comedians of Drury Lane theatre, to the same [without date, but in 1709]; ix. Petition from the Rt. Hon. Lord Guildford and others, claiming under the patents of the theatres, to the same [without date, but in Nov. 1709] ; x. Order from the Lord Chamberlain, dat. 31 Dec. 1707 ; xi. Minutes of Privy Council, on the subject of the petition of the claimants, dat. 18 Feb. 17⁰⁹/₁₀, with the Report of the Attorney [Sir Edward Northey] and Solicitor General [Robert Raymond] on the same, dat. 8 Nov. 1711 ; xii. Letter from W. Collier to Barton Booth, dat. 13 Sept. 1709 ; xiii. Abstracts of numerous documents referred to in the above Report, 1662-1684. The articles from vii. to xiii. inclusive, are transcribed in the handwriting of J. P. Kemble, Esq. Quarto. [12,201.]