From the Boston Evening Post of 12 May 1740, quoting London Magazine for January, 1740: Wednesday, Jan. 25. This night a disturbance happen'd at Drury-Lane Playhouse, occasion'd by two of the principal dancers not being there to dance at the end of the entertainment, whereupon several gentlemen in the boxes and pit pull'd up the seats and flooring of the same, tore down the hangings, broke down the partitions, and all the glasses and sconces; the King's arms over the middle front box was pull'd down and broke to pieces; they also destroy'd the harpsichord, bass viol, and other instruments in the orchestra; the curtain they cut to pieces with their swords, forc'd their way into the lesser green-room, where they broke the glasses, &c. and after destroying every thing they could well get asunder, to the amount of about 3 or 400 l. damage, left the house in a very ruinous condition. [log in to unmask]