The Three Per Cents

{{Short description|1803 play}}

{{Infobox play

| name = The Three Per Cents

| image =File:Covent Garden Theatre MET DP221769.jpg

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| caption = Covent Garden Theatre

| writer =Frederick Reynolds

| setting = London, present day

| date of premiere = 12 November 1803

| original language = English

| place = Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London

| series =

| subject =

| genre = Comedy

}}

The Three Per Cents is an 1803 comedy play by the British writer Frederick Reynolds. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on 12 November 1803.Nicoll p.381 Greene p.4513 The original cast included George Frederick Cooke as Sandy McTack, John Fawcett as George McTack, Joseph Shepherd Munden as Sir Peter Presser, Charles Kemble as Colonel Dorimant, Charles Murray as Major Seymour, Samuel Simmons as Pallet, Charles Farley as Witling, Maria Gibbs as Lady Delamere and Harriet Siddons as Rosalie.The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 44. Philological Society of London, 1803. p.390 The title refers to consols, a form of financial investment in the British national debt which returned three percent interest.