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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Besford"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Besford")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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502 results for: Keyword - Besford
We found 431 matches on Roles/Actors, 122 matches on Performance Comments, 82 matches on Performance Title, 32 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

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25 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Gardner, Cubitt, Thompson & Besford. Receipts: #216 16s. 6d. (59.17.0; 4.8.6; tickets: 152.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Wou'd Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Dance: As17870523

502
03 June 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Gardner, Rock, Besford & Mrs Watts. The Caledonian Wedding [a dance, advertised on playbill of 2 June] cannot be performed on Account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. [3rd piece in place of The Country Mad-Cap, advertised on playbill of 2 June.] Receipts: #177 6d. (48.1.6; 7.16.0; tickets: 121.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: End II 1st piece: The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms (for this Night only)-Master Braham

Entertainment: Monologue End III 1st piece: A Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey-Edwin