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INTRODUCTION.
IN the following pages I purpose to give, not a
history of the Theatre Royal, but a chronicle of the
most important theatrical events which have oc-
curred therein, from the time it was first opened to
the public to the date of its most sad and unfor-
tunate destruction. The data which I have col-
lected will be found useful to the historian of the
future and such I cannot doubt will be found at
no distant period who will weave the salient facts
into a consecutive and complete narrative. This
has not been my object.
I have sought merely to
put together, as far as possible, in chronological
order, the notable events which have taken place