sole Printing and Publishing the said Works, for the Term of Fourteen Years, to be computed from the Date hereof; strictly forbidding all our Subjects within our Kingdom and Dominions, to Reprint or Abridge the same, either in the like, or any other Volume or Volumes whatsoever; or import, buy, vend, utter, or distribute any Copies thereof reprinted beyond the Seas, during the aforesaid Term of Fourteen years, without the Consent or Approbation of the said _Thomas Augustine Arne_, his Heirs, Executors, and Assigns, as they will answer the contrary at their Peril. Whereof the Commissioners and other Officers of our Customs, the Master, Wardens and Company of Stationers, are to take Notice, that due Obedience may be rendered to our Pleasure herein declared. Given at our Court St. James's, the Twenty-Ninth Day of January, 1740-1, in the Fourteenth Year of Our Reign. By His Majesty's Command. "HOLLIS NEWCASTLE." [Illustration: THE GREAT ROOM, FISHAMBLE STREET, DUBLIN.] In 1741, Arne and his wife made their first united visit to Ireland; from _Faulkner's Dublin Journal_ of June 29-July 3, we learn that: "Last Wednesday (June 30th) the ingenious Mr. Arne, brother to Mrs. Cibber, and Composer of the Musick of Comus, together with his Wife, (the celebrated Singer,) arrived here from London." This notice is interesting as evidence that "Comus" had already been performed in Dublin; Mrs. Cibber and James Quin, the original exponents of the Lady, and Comus, were two of the actors engaged in the Dublin production; we may therefore reasonably suppose that they had introduced some of Arne's music. Mrs. Cibber had also won a high place in the estimation of the public by her exquisite singing in the first performance of the "Messiah" Oratorio when conducted by Handel on the 13th of April preceding. No time was lost by Arne and his wife in making a venture for public favour. _Faulkner's Journal_, July 13-17, exhibited the following advertisement: "At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality, for the Benefit of Mrs. Arne, at the Great Room in Fishamble-street, on Wednesday, the 21st Inst., will be performed a grand Entertainment of Musick, to be divided into three Interludes; wherein several favourite Songs and Duetto will be performed by Mrs. Arne and Mrs. Cibber. In the first Interlude (after an Overture of Mr. Handel's) a Scene from Mr. Arne's Opera of Rosamund, by Mrs. Arne; O beauteous Queen, from Mr. Handel's Oratorio Esther, by Mrs. Cibber; Non chiamarmi, from an Opera of Signor Hasse's by Mrs. Arne; and O fairest of ten thousand Fair, a Duetto, from Mr. Handel's Oratorio of Saul, by Mrs. Arne and Mrs. Cibber. In the second Interlude (after an Overture of Mr. Arne's) Lascia cadermi in Volto, a Song of Farinelli's Singing, by Mrs. Arne; Chi scherza colle Rose, from Mr. Handel's Opera of Hymen, by Mrs. Cibber; Vo solcando, a song of Signor Vinci's by Mrs. Arne; and Vado e vido, a Duetto of Mr.