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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Meares"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Meares")') 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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19 results for: Keyword - Meares
We found 19 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
12 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #59 18s. Paid Meares, Taylor, a bill for making Richard's Dress for Lee...#3 0s. 11d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

2
10 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #111 18s. Paid Wm. Jones for coals #73 13s. 2d. Paid Mr Kemp 26 nights to 31 Oct.: #41 12s. Paid Meares #2 14s. 3d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17591102

3
17 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #105 6s. Paid Meares #1 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17591113

4
24 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #114 19s. Paid Meares #2 4s. 1s.; Paid Pattinson [tallow chandler] four bills, #70 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine; With the Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

5
01 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #92 6s. Paid Meares' bill, #3 18s. 5d.; Redhead (mercer), #37

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

6
08 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #138. The weekly bill for the scenemen doubled this week, #18 16s. Paid Meares as per bill #6 18s. 1d.; Paid Mrs Buck for 13 days salary as dresser at 1s. 6d. per day; 19s. 6d.; Paid Mr Buck for making 13 Tambourines for The Fair, #2 15s.; Paid Mrs Lucy Gwynn a bill for cleaning silks, &c., 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Song: Lowe

7
05 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Recipts: #222 0s. 6d. Paid Meares (Tailor) #1 11s. 4d.; Paid Mr Monck 80 days salary to this day #20; Paid Xmas Boxes: King's Footmen, #2 2s., Chairmen, #2 2s., Prince of Wales Footmen, #1 1s., Chairmen, #1 1s., Princess of Wales Footmen #1 1s., Chairmen #1 1s., Porters at Inns of Court #3 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: II: The Threshers, as17591005

8
12 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #122 15s. 6d. Paid Meares (tailor) #4 1s. 4d.; Kemp for 6 nights #9 12s.; Monck for 6 days #1 10s.; Sarjant for his salary to Xmas '59, #5; Music in Beggar's Opera 2 nights

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17600108, but Comic Dance [probably The Plowman]-Poitier, Mlle Capdeville

9
19 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #146 2s. Paid Meares #5 16s. 6d.; Monck #1 10s.; Hargreaves (smith) #13 6s. 11d.; Kemp, six nights for lamps, #9 12s. At the Bedford tonight & slept [slipt?] in at Covent Garden Mr Bettenson was at the Bedford, we were talking about the Count, a poor man that comes there slept in after the play at Drury Lane Gallery (Hailey, "Brietzcke Diary," Vol. 197, p. 69)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

10
26 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #150. Paid Meares #1 6s.; Mock #1 10s.; Kemp #9 12s.; John Rich #500; Mrs Colman for a purple and silver gown #18 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

11
02 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #142 4s. Paid Kemp for 5 nights #8; Mr Dall at work upon scenes of Oratorios, for which his salary is stopp'd from 28 Jan. 60; Paid Meares 6s.; Heaford (plaisterer) #78 10s.; Pearce (bricklayer) #79 18s.; Martin (wardrobe keeper) on acct of his salary #5. [I] was in both the Galleries both before and after the plays, met Mr Ware going into Covent Garden Gallery who said his sisters were there but I did see them (Hailey, "Brietzcke Diary," Vol. 197, p.71)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

12
09 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #124 17s. Paid Kemp for Lamps #9 12s.; Meares 13s.; Hughes & Batten (linnen drapers) #33 14s.; Nuttall as per bill #26 8s.; Luppino as per bill #30 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

13
16 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #132 0s. 6d. Paid Kemp #9 12s.; Meares #1 10s.; Mr Day (turner) #12 1s.; Pattinson (tallow chandler) three bills to 11 Feb., #54 8s. 8d. Was at Covent Garden Gallery with Sir Harriott to see the Jovial Crew and Duke and No Duke. I met Legyt, Piggot, Bettenson there & got home by 10 (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 72)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Dances incident to the Opera. Likewise, a Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville [probably The Plowman]

14
01 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #212 7s. Paid Kemp for lamps #6 8s.; Meares, 5s. I slept in at the Play Houses but did not see him [his brother George] there. I met Miss Smith going into the Gallery at Covent Garden. I think it is a fortnight tomorrow that her sister has been buried (Hailey Brietzcke Diary, p. 147)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

15
08 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #184 7s. Paid Kemp #6 8s.; Meares 15s.; Richards (painter) a bill #5s; Mr Bedcot (wax chandler) #5; Hewetson (laceman) #65 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Spirit of Contradiction

16
22 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. By Desire. Tickets for Romeo and Juliet will be taken. Receipts: #69 in cash, plus #203 15s. from tickets (Boxes 380; Pit 563; Gallery 243). Total #272 15s. Charges #64 5s. Paid Kemp #6 8s.; Paid Meares 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Song: Miss Brent

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard; End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

17
29 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Full prices. Last time of performing till Easter Holidays. Receipts: #214 11s. Paid Kemp #6 8s.; Meares #0 10s. 6d.;Mr Platt for mahogany chair frames (12), #9 12s.; Paid Rich #50; Paid 10 night's Rents for Oratorios #100. I was to see the Jovial Crew and the Fair again, at the Gallery at Covent Garden, where I see Mrs Viebert, Miss Meredith & Mr Madan. Slept in at Drury Lane Gallery where I see the best part of Catherine & Petruchio for King's Benefit (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 210)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

18
14 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Ryan. Tickets delivered out for The Fop's Fortune will be taken. Receipts: #66 7s. 6d. in cash, plus #100 17s. from tickets (Boxes 249; Pit 190; Gallery 101). Total income #167 4s. 6d. Charges #64 5s. Paid Meares a bill for 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

19
28 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miles, Mrs Baker, Miss Young. Tickets delivered out by Miss Ferguson will be taken. Receipts: #7 15s. 4d. covered by income from tickets. @Tickets Miles Box 15@Pit 178@Gallery 62@Value #36 13s.@Tickets Mrs Baker Box 86@Pit 124@Gallery 67@Value #46 16s.@Tickets Miss Young Box 18@Pit 75@Gallery 80@Value #23 15s.@Tickets Miss Ferguson Box 9@Pit 57@Gallery 39@Value #14 14s.@Total Box 128@Pit 434@Gallery 248@Value #121 12s.@ Paid Rich on account #21. Paid Meares 3s. [The house is now running a deficit of #371.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Song: II, IV: A Song-Miss Brent

Dance: III: The Drunken Peasant-Miles, with Clown - Bennet