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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Lord Treasurer Danby"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Lord Treasurer Danby")') 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 2031 matches on Event Comments, 1737 matches on Performance Comments, 141 matches on Performance Title, 43 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Rec'd from the sinking Fund first #205 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Event Comment: Benefit for Dibdin. Receipts: #134 9s. 6d. Charges: #64 9s. Profits to Dibdin: #74 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Cast
Role: Lord Froth Actor: Parsons
Role: Lord Touchwood Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

Dance: V: The Surprize, as17730401

Event Comment: Benefit for Hopkins, Prompter, and Mrs Hopkins. By Particular Desire. Tickets deliver'd for Mary Queen of Scots will be taken (playbill). Miss Hopkins made her first appearance upon the stage in Celia in As You Like It. Was rec'd with great applause (Hopkins Diary). House charges: #74 14s.; Profit to beneficiaries: #165 2s. Receipts: #239 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: I: A Dance-Daigville's scholars

Entertainment: End: (First time) an Address to the Town-Miss P. Hopkins

Event Comment: Benefit for Crawford (treasurer)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Cid

Dance: I: Grand Ballet with Pasacal and Grand Chancone, as17730413 II: Grand Ballet with Grand Chorusses-; End II: Grand Ballet with Pas de Cinq, as17730417 End Opera: Grand Ballet with Grand Chacone-Mlle Heinel, Fierville

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Majesties. This Comedy is reviv'd with great Alterations by Mr G. by particular desire of the Queen. The play went off vastly well Mr G. Play'd with great Spirit & much Applauded the Alterations are vastly lik'd it will now be a living Play (Hopkins Diary). Doors open half past five. Play to begin promptly at six. House (Hopkins Diary). Receipts: #156 12s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Event Comment: House (Hopkins Diary). Doors open at 5 o'clock. Receipts: #232 3s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Tickets deliver'd for 22 March will be taken. Part of Pit laid into boxes. House charges #65 9s. Profit to Barry #187 15s. 6d. Paid 2 extra Hautboys in Rehearsal 10s. Receipts: #253 4s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: V: A Comic Dance, as17730325 End I Afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17721023

Event Comment: House (Hopkins Diary). Mainpiece: By Particular desire. House Doors open by 5 o'clock. Play to begin promptly at 6. Receipts: #212 8s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

Dance: End of Play: A Comic Dance call'd The Nosegay-Daigville, Sga Vidini

Event Comment: Miss Hopkins 2d appearance Arethusa--well receiv'd (+Hopkins Diary). Benefit for Brereton. Tragedy reviv'd not acted these 7 years. [See 23 April 1765.] Receipts: #130 19s. 6d. Charges: #67 1s. Profits to Brereton: #73 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Dance: I: A Dance-Daigville's scholars

Event Comment: Benefit for Messrs Bransby and Burton. Receipts: #159 18s. Charges: #74 14s. Profits to Bransby and Burton: #85 4s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Event Comment: Benefit for Champness and Mrs Scott. House Charges #69 14s. 6d. Profits to Champness and Mrs Scott #55 2s. 6d. Receipts: #124 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Like Master Like Man

Dance: IV: A New Dance-Miss Gray, scholar of Tassoni; End: Cantata of Lydia, composed by Dr Arne-Mrs Scott

Event Comment: Benefit for Ackman. Tickets to be had at Pond's in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden; and of Mr Johnston, at the Theatre. House charges #84. Profit to Ackman #123 10s.; Paid Mr Davies's note to Liddell, #3 3s.; Paid extra Flute and Hautboy 10s.; Chorus 2 nights (this incl.) #4 1s. Receipts: #207 10s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: Other dances-Atkins, Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi

Entertainment: End: Bucks Have at ye All-Palmer; by Desire

Event Comment: Benefit for Dimond and Miss Mansell. Receipts: #145 8s. Charges: #65 10s. Profits to Dimond and Miss Mansell: #79 18s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Dance: End: A Hornpipe-Mrs Sutton

Event Comment: Benefit for Wright and Keen. Receipts: #163 1s. 5d. Charges: #64 10s. Profits to Wright and Keen: #98 11s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Cast
Role: Lord Abberville Actor: Dodd

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Entertainment: V: A Dissertation on Macaronies-Baddeley

Event Comment: House (Hopkins Diary). Mainpiece: For the 4th and last time this season. Afterpiece: By Desire, the 36th night. Full Prices. Receipts: #224 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson and Lings. Tickets delivered by Page, Carlton, Sen, and Walton will be taken. Receipts: #236 13s. Charges: #84. Profits to Mortimer, Tomlinson, and Lings: #152 13s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-Master Whitlow, Miss Lings; III: A New Wooden Shoe Dance-Mas. Whitlow, Miss Lings, Miss Wilkins, scholars of Giorgi

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Roberts, Palmer. Tickets deliver'd by Wood and Humphreys will be taken (playbill). Receipts: #245 12s. 6d. Charges: #84. Profits to Watson, Roberts and Palmer: #161 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Cast
Role: Lord Brilliant Actor: Fawcett

Dance: III: A Dance, as17730506

Entertainment: End: Bucks Have at Ye All-Mas. Palmer

Event Comment: Benefit of Peguenit, treasurer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Event Comment: Louisa Dudley first time Miss Hopkins very well receiv'd (Hopkins Diary). Mrs Smith being hoarse, the Wedding Ring deferr'd. Paid Miss Berkley on note 25 Aug. #2 2s.; Mrs Sykes for women's Cloaths #21. Receipts: #163 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Event Comment: Receipts: #138 10s. 6d. Paid three days salary at #85 1s. 11d. per diem, #255 5s. 9d. [Paid the following items which occur regularly each Saturday pay day during the 37 weeks of the 1773-74 season: Lampmen #2 12s.; Billstickers #3 12s.; Handbills 8s.; Candlemen #3 18s.; Carpenter's Bills #8 14s. 6d.; Taylor's Bill #8 11s. 8d.; Mantua Maker's Bill #5 6s.; J. Stevens 18s; Mrs Abington's Cloaths #1; Mr Carver 11 days #11; Mr Royer 2 weeks #9; Mr J. French on act #8 8s.; Supernumeraries and Kettle Drummers #3 14s. (Treasurer's Book). N.B. This pay day was based on a three-day acting week. The average paid out for each of these items over the season, and the total for each computed on this average was as follows. [No further mention will be made of these items this season.] @ Average per week Total for season@Lampmen #3 2s. #113 14s.@Billstickers #2 14s. #99 18s.@Handbills 12s. #22 4s.@Carpenter's #5 10s. #203 10s.@Taylor's #10 2s. #373 14s.@Mantua Maker's #2 10s. #92 10s.@J. Stevens 18s. #33 6s.@Mrs Abington Cloaths #1 12s. 4d. #60@Carver at 1 per diem #189@Royer #4 10s. #166 10s.@Sups and Kettle Drum at #3 10s. per diem #661@Candlemen #7 14s. #277 4s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Event Comment: Paid Housekeeper's Bill #11 7s. 6d.; Properties 19s. 8d. Receipts: #144 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Event Comment: Receipts: #168 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Event Comment: Paid Tallow Chandler's 1st bill #42 11s. 6d; Mr Hopkins for last summer #20; Mr Arnick for Men's cloaths #14 14s. Receipts: #126 14s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Event Comment: Receipts: #106 16s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 26 years. [See 13 April 1748.] Dressed in The Habits of the Times (playbill). This play is altered by Mr G was well perform'd a New Prologue & Epilogue all receiv'd with Applause (Hopkins Diary). [MacMillan's note from Kemble differs sligntly in wording.] Paid Properties #1 11s. 11d.; Housekeeper's bill #4 13s. Receipts: #153 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albumazar

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring