SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Order of the Golden Fleece"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Order of the Golden Fleece")') 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 890 matches on Event Comments, 93 matches on Performance Title, 53 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Receipts: #55 10s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 47 paid and 16 orders; stage, 3 paid; pit, 160 paid and 9 orders; slips, 15 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 115 paid and 10 orders; second gallery, 113 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Event Comment: Receipts: #88 7s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 112 paid and 7 orders; stage, 6 paid; pit, 228 paid and 22 orders; slips, 16 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 151 paid and 5 orders; second gallery, 137 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. Receipts: #118 14s. Probable attendance: boxes, 127 paid and 11 orders; stage, 6 paid; pit, 273 paid and 13 orders; slips, 24 paid and 27 orders; first gallery, 323 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 181 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. The Prince and three Princesses present. Receipts: #159 16s. Probable attendance: boxes, 175 paid and 26 orders; stage, 17 paid; pit, 294 paid and 5 orders; slips, 24 paid and 31 orders; first gallery, 401 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 138 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Event Comment: Receipts: #148 19s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 174 paid and 23 orders; stage, 6 paid; pit, 292 paid and 8 orders; slips, 29 paid and 10 orders; first gallery, 423 paid and 8 orders; second gallery, 168 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

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

Performance Comment: Ceres-Mrs Barbier; Proserpine-Mrs Chambers; Jupiter-Rochetti; Mercury-Legar; 1st Sylvan-Mrs Pelling; 2d Sylvan-Mrs Bullock; 3rd Sylvan-Mrs Vincent; 4th Sylvan-Miss LaTour; 5th Sylvan-Mrs Ogden; Gods of the Woods-Salle, Dupre, Moreau, Newhouse; Sicilians-Lanyon, Dupre Jr, DelaGarde, Eaton; Pluto-Papillion; Demons-Salle, Dupre, Moreau, Newhouse, Lanyon; Yeoman-Pelling; Clodpole-Spiller; Old Man-Smith; Harlequin-Lun; Colombine-Mrs Moreau; Old Woman-Miss LaTour; Countrymen, Lasses-Newhouse, DelaGarde Jr, Lanyon, Mrs Russell, Miss Holiday, Mrs Rice; Savoyard-Salway; Gardeners-Smith, Eaton; Elements ; Earth-Dupre; Air-Pelling; Fire-Moreau; Water-Salle; Females-Mrs Pelling, Miss LaTour, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Legar.
Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Event Comment: Receipts: #38 12s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 17 paid and 6 orders; pit, 98 paid and 15 orders; slips, 6 paid and 7 orders; first gallery, 110 paid and 7 orders; second gallery, 101 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Event Comment: Receipts: #84 4s. Probable attendance: boxes, 62 paid and 13 orders; Pit, 215 paid and 12 orders; slips, 19 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 216 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 107 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #38 17s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 17 paid and 4 orders; pit, 125 paid and 27 orders; slips, 9 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 150 paid and 26 orders; second gallery, 132 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Music: As17280930, but Vocal Parts-_Leveridge

Dance: Salle, Dupre, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyan, Dupre Jr

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespeare. Receipts: #73 4s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 68 paid and 18 orders; pit, 193 paid and 17 orders; slips, 17 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 145 paid and 7 orders; second gallery, 164 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Song: Mrs Wright, her first on this stage

Event Comment: Receipts: #59 4s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 20 paid and 14 orders; pit, 150 paid and 20 orders; slips, 7 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 214 paid and 5 orders; second gallery, 155 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Music: As17290116

Event Comment: Receipts: #50 7s. Probable attendance: boxes, 23 paid and 1 order; stage, 1 paid; pit, 178 paid and 33 orders; slips, 7 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 113 paid and 13 orders; second gallery, 55 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #74 14s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 70 paid and 16 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 200 paid and 20 orders; slips, 10 paid and 3 orders;first gallery, 163 paid and 13 orders; second gallery, 82 paid and 3 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Event Comment: [T+The Necromancer, not advertised, may have been given as an afterpiece, as the Daily Journal, 12 Feb., states that the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princesses Amelia and Carolina saw it as part of the program.] Receipts: #68 15s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 113 paid and 30 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 164 paid and 17 orders; slips, 7 paid and 12 orders; first gallery, 117 paid and 4 orders; second, 123 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Themistocles, The Lover Of His Country

Cast
Role: Themistocles Actor: Quin
Event Comment: Receipts: #36 4s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 26 paid and 6 orders; pit, 110 paid and 17 orders; slips, 6 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 74 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 97 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Themistocles, The Lover Of His Country

Cast
Role: Themistocles Actor: Quin
Event Comment: Receipts: #34 16s. Probable attendance; boxes, 35 paid and 8 orders; pit, 103 paid and 12 orders; slips, 2 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 69 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 60 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Themistocles, The Lover Of His Country

Cast
Role: Themistocles Actor: Quin
Event Comment: Receipts: #33 16s. Probable attendance: boxes, 37 paid and 1 order; stage, 2 paid; P1t, 77 paid and 10 orders; slips, 4 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 80 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 69 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Themistocles, The Lover Of His Country

Cast
Role: Themistocles Actor: Quin
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #100 19s. Probable attendance: boxes, 49 paid and 29 orders; pit, 259 paid and 14 orders; slips, 28 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 252 paid and 7 orders; second gallery, 183 paid. [This is the last entry in the Harvard Manuscript which lists the receipts in various sections of the theater.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Event Comment: Luttrell, A Brief Relation, II, 413: By order of the queen, the lord chamberlain has sent an order to the playhouse prohibiting the acting Mr Dryden s play called the tragedy of Cleomenes, reflecting much on the government. Gentleman's Journal, April 1692 (licensed 13 April): I was in hopes to have given you in this Letter an account of the Acting of Mr Dryden's Cleomenes; it was to have appear'd upon the Stage on Saturday last, and you need not doubt but that the Town was big with Expectation of the performance; but Orders came from Her Majesty to hinder its being Acted; so that none can tell when it shall be play'd

Performances

Event Comment: An order of the Court of Common Council for London forbids any performances of plays or interludes at Bartholomew Fair. See a broadside in the British Museum [1851 b. 25 (25)], reported by Alfred Jackson, Review of English Studies, XIV (1938), 55. Flying Post, 22-25 June 1700: The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Alderman have ordered that no Play-house Bills be affix'd on any Post, &c. in this City; and the like Orders are resolved on in Westminster

Performances

Event Comment: [By Owen Swiny.] Not Acted these Ten Years. All the Characters new drest. Pit and Boxes to be laid together by tickets only at 5s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Receipts: #163 3s. 6d. Probable attendance: p1t and boxes, 464 paid and 14 orders; stage, 2 paid; balcony, 4 paid; slips, 21 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 270 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 124 paid. [The Prologue was printed in London Journal, 26 Nov.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: Receipts: #62 17s. Probable attendance: boxes, 49 paid and 17 orders; pit, 213 paid and 15 orders; slips, 4 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 123 paid; second gallery, 66 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: Dupre, Nivelon, Salle, Pelling, Newhouse, Dupre Jr, Lanyon, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Pelling

Event Comment: Receipts: #80 18s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 119 paid and 13 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 206 paid and 10 orders; slips, 15 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 132 paid, second gallery, 38 paid. For comments upon theatrical affairs, see Mist's and London Journal, 10 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: [By Leonard Welstead.] Receipts: #63 12s. Probable attendance. boxes, 81 paid and 10 orders; balcony, 3 paid; pit, 257 paid and 8 orders; slips, 22 paid; first gallery, 139 paid and 11 orders; second gallery, 70 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dissembled Wanton; Or, My Son Get Money

Performance Comment: Principal Parts-Quin, Ryan, Walker, Hall, W. Bullock, Hippisley, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Younger, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Egleton; but edition of 1727 lists: Lord Severne-Quin; Colonel Severne-Ryan; Beaufort-Walker; Sir Humphrey Staple-Hall; Toby-W. Bullock; Wormwood-Hippisley; Emilia-Mrs Bullock; Sir Harry Truelove-Mrs Younger; Jenny Staple-Mrs Legar; Lettice-Mrs Egleton; Prologue by a Gentleman of the Temple-Ryan; Epilogue by Molloy-Mrs Younger dressed as a Beau.
Event Comment: [By Philip Frowde.] All the Characters new Dress'd. Receipts: #148 3s. Probable attendance: boxes, 198 paid and 17 orders; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 283 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 409 paid and 1 orders; slips, 64 paid; second gallery, 82 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Saguntum

Performance Comment: Principal Parts-Boheme, Ryan, Walker, Quin, Hulett, Diggs, Milward, Mrs Berriman, Mrs Bullock, but edition of 1727 lists: Sicoris-Boheme; Murrus-Walker; Eurydamas-Quin; Theron-Hulett; Lycormas-Diggs; Fabius-Ryan; Curtius-Milward; First Saguntine-Ogden; Candace-Mrs Berriman; Timandra-Mrs Bullock; Prologue by Theobald-Quin; Epilogue-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Theron Actor: Hulett
Role: Theobald Actor: Quin
Event Comment: Receipts: #56 5s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 34 paid and 9 orders; balcony, 2 paid; pit, 187 paid and 4 orders; slips, 19 paid; first gallery, 114 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 102 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Saguntum

Cast
Role: Theron Actor: Hulett
Role: Theobald Actor: Quin