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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Captain Thomson"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Captain Thomson")') 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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We found 1000 matches on Performance Comments, 148 matches on Performance Title, 128 matches on Author, 127 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: By Desire of his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador [Ismail Ferrouh Effendi]. Benefit for Miss Waters. 1st piece: Not acted these 5 years [acted 13 May 1796]. 2nd piece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 14 May 1798]. [As 3rd piece the Account-Book lists The Death of Captain Cook.] Morning Chronicle, 14 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Waters, No. 43, Conduit-street, Hanover-square. Receipts: #436 19s. (101.14; 6.19; tickets: 328.6)

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Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Afterpiece Title: Marian

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival

Song: End II 1st piece: a Musical Address Mark when beneath the western main (Dramatic Censor, II, 197), Written expressly for the occasion by T. Dutton, A. M., and composed by Mazzinghi-Miss Waters; End III: O Strike the Harp-Incledon, Linton, Miss Waters; accompanied on the Harp-Weippert; End IV: Happy were the Days-Miss Waters; End 1st piece: Sigh no more Ladies-Incledon, Townsend, Linton, Master Slape, Miss Waters