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Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

Performance Comment: Performed on Friday, Octob. 29. 1675 for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable and truly Noble Pattern of Prudence and Loyalty, Sir Joseph Sheldon Kt, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a true description of the several Pageants with the Speeches spoken on each Pageant. Together with the several Songs sung at this Solemnity. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. Design'd and Composed by Tho. Jordan, Gent.
Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London's Triumphs

Performance Comment: Illustrated with many Magnificent Structures and Pageants. On which are orderly expressed Several Stately Representations of Poetical Deities, sitting and standing in great spdendor on several Scenes in proper Shapes. With Pertinent Speeches, Jocular Songs (sung by the City Musick), and Pastoral Dancing. Performed October 29, 1677, for the Celebration, Solemnity and Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Francis Chaplin, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. At the Charge and Expences of the Industrious Designs, being the sole Undertaking of the Ancient and Right Worshipful Society of Clothworkers. Designed and Composed by Tho. Jordan.
Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show

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Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

Performance Comment: Performed on Tuesday, October XXIX. 1678. For the Entertainment of the Right Honourable, and truly Noble Pattern of Prudence and Loyalty, Sir James Edwards Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a true Description of the several Pageants, with the Speeches spoken on each Pageant. Together with the Songs sung in this Solemnity. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. Designed and Composed by Tho. Jordan, Gent.
Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show. For brief accounts, see Luttrell, A Brief Relation, I, 25, and Domestick Intelligence, No. 34, 31 Oct. 1679

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Mainpiece Title: London In Luster

Performance Comment: [Projecting Many bright beams of Triumph: Disposed with Several Representations of Scenes and Pageants. Performed with great Splendor on Wednesday, October XXIX. 1679] At the Initiation and Instalment of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Clayton, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Dignified with divers delightfull Varieties of Presentors, with Speeches, Songs, and Actions, properly and punctually described. All set forth at the proper Cost and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. Devised and Composed by Tho. Jordan, Gent.
Event Comment: See also Luttrell, A Brief Relation, I, 362. The cost of the Pageants was #175; the total cost of the Lord Mayor's Show came to #473 4d. See Robert Withington, English Pageantry (Cambridge, Mass., 1920), II, 62

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Mainpiece Title: London's Annual Triumph Performed On Thursday, Octob

Performance Comment: 29. 1685. For the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Jeffreys, Kt Lord Mayor of the City of London. With a Description of the several Pageants, Speeches, and Songs made proper for the Occasion. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Iron@Mongers. Composed by Matt. Taubman.
Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: was a Triumphant shew of the Lord Major, both by land & water with much solemnity, when yet his power was so deminish'd, by the losse of their former charter

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Mainpiece Title: London's Yearly Jubilee : Performed On Friday October Xxix

Performance Comment: 1686. For the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir John Peale, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. With a Description of the several Pageants, Speeches and Songs, made proper for the Occasion. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Right Worshipful the Company of Mercers. Composed by M. Taubman.
Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Day Festivities

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Mainpiece Title: Glory's Resurrection

Performance Comment: Being the Triumphs of London Reviv'd for the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Francis Child, Kt. Lord Mayor of London. Containing the Description (and also the Sculptures) of the Pageants, and the whole Solemnity of the Day: All set forth at the proper cost and charge of the Honourable Company of Goldsmiths. By Elkanah Settle.
Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Day pageants

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

Performance Comment: For the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Richard Levett, Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a Description of the Pageants, together with the Publick Speaches, and the whole Solemnity of the Day. Perform'd on Monday the 30th day of October, Anno 1699. All set forth at the proper cost and charges of the Honourable Company of Haberdashers. [By Elkanah Settle.]

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Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

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Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

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Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

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Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17821009

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Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Role: Lord Medway Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

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Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

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Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

Song: As17821206

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Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

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Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

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Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

Song: As17821118

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Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

Dance: As17821007

Song: As17821007

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Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

Song: Vocal Parts [in Entry] by Mattocks, Reinhold, Brett, Doyle, Darley, Bannister; Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Martyr, Miss Stuart, Miss Morris, Miss Harper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Performance Comment: King Henry-Clarke; Buckingham-Wroughton; Cranmer-Hull; Surrey-Whitfield; Lord Chamberlain-Wewitzer; Gardner-Wilson; Cromwell-Davies; Lord Sands-Jones; Norfolk-Fearon; Suffolk-Booth; Cardinal Wolsey-Henderson; Anne Bullen-Miss Cleland; Lady-Mrs Pitt; Queen Katherinc-Miss Younge .
Cast
Role: Lord Chamberlain Actor: Wewitzer
Role: Lord Sands Actor: Jones

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

Song: In Act III song by Mrs Kennedy