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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Brookfield"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Brookfield")') 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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5 results for: Keyword - Brookfield
We found 5 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, 0 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1
01 May 1704 @ May Fair

Event Comment: At Pinkeman's Booth in Brookfield Market-Place at the East Corner of Hyde Park, to be kept for the space of Sixteen Days, The Booth is easily known by the Picture of the Elephant and Mr Pinkeman sitting in State on his back on the outside of the Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Cast
Role: viz Actor:
Role: led upon the Stage by six Blacks Actor: .

2
26 March 1707 @ Boman's House

Event Comment: Boman's house is in Brookfields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-the best Masters

3
09 May 1743 @ May Fair

Event Comment: YYeates, Warner, and Rosoman's Great Theatrical Booth, Upper End of Little Brookfield. At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality will be presented the Droll. Begin at Noon and end at 10 p.m. The Booth founded after the Manner of an Amphitheatre, with Boxes on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love His Own Rival

Afterpiece Title: Trick Upon Trick

Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Rosoman
Role: Squire Actor: Cushing
Role: Clown Actor: Warner
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Cushing.

Dance: The Humours of Mayfair-

4
04 May 1744 @ May Fair

Event Comment: YYeates's Great Theatrical Booth, the Lower End of Brookfield to begin at noon this Day and the Time of the Fair. [Notice repeated 7, 14, 15 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Blind Beggar Of Bethnal Green; With The Comical Humours Of Tom Stroud And His Man Gudgeon

Afterpiece Title: Representation of the Late Battle in the Meditteranean

5
02 May 1745 @ May Fair

Event Comment: A historical note about the patent for May Fair by Edward Shepherd. Daily Advertiser, 1 May: Whereas a Patent was granted by King Charles the First, and confirm'd by King James II, to the Proprietor of Great and Little Brookfield, then in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields, now in the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square, to hold a Fair during the Space of fifteen Days, to begin the 1st Day of May next, and every May Day forever: the present Proprietor thinks it proper to apprize the Publick thereof, that it may not be thought that he attempts to do any thing but by Virtue of the said Patent, and no Ways to disturb the Publick Peace, or act in Contradiction to the Laws of the Realm. [Alluded to in 2 May news of the Daily Advertiser, as being proclaimed by Edward Shepherd.

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