1707. This year a well-known theatrical manageress, Mrs. Mynn, produced a new version of the “Siege of Troy,” reduced from five to three acts, by the aged actor, Settle. The piece was printed with the following introduction:— _A Printed Publication of an ~Entertainment~ performed on a ~Smithfield stage~, which, how gay or richly soever set off, will hardly reach to a higher ~Title~ than the customary name of a DROLL, may seem somewhat new. But as the present undertaking, the work of ten Months’ preparation, is so extraordinary a performance, that without Boast or Vanity we may modestly say, ~In~ the whole ~several Scenes, Movements~, and ~Machines, it is noways~ Inferiour even to any one ~Opera~ yet seen in either of the ~Royal Theatres~; we are therefore under some sort of necessity to make this Publication, thereby to give ev’n the meanest of our audience a full Light into all the Object they will there meet in this ~expensive Entertainment~; the ~proprietors~ of which have adventur’d to make, under small Hopes, That as they yearly see some of their happier Bretheren Undertakers in the FAIR, more cheaply obtain even the Engrost Smiles of the Gentry ~and~ Quality at so much an easier Price; so on the other side their own more costly Projection (though less Favourites) might possibly attain to that good Fortune, at least to attract a little share of the good graces of the more Honourable part of the Audience, and perhaps be able to purchase some of those smiles which elsewhere have been thus long the profuser Donation of particular Affection of Favour._ There was also published “The Cloyster in Bartholomew Fair; or, The Town-Mistress Disguis’d.” London, Printed for A. Bancks, near Fleet Street. A Poem. 8vo. 8 leaves. _Limiting the Duration of the Fair._—1708. On the 2nd June this year the Court of Common Council passed the following resolution:—