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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Princess Royal"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Princess Royal")') 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 1547 matches on Event Comments, 839 matches on Performance Title, 399 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Receipts: #49 10s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 72 paid and 30 orders; pit, 120 paid and 23 orders; slips, 6 paid and 7 orders; first gallery, 79 paid and 7 orders; second gallery, 50 paid and 1 order

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: With the usual Dances-

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. Receipts: #173 15s. Probable attendance: boxes, 241 paid and 29 orders; 308 paid and 1 order; slips, 44 paid and 19 orders; first gallery 471 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 194 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. Written by Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance:

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: Benefit Mills. By Command of his Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance:

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; With select Pieces on French Horn and German Flute-the best Hands of the Opera

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Booth. By Command of his Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Dance: Roger, Essex, Mrs Mills, Miss Robinson; particularly The Pierete-

Event Comment: Benefit Elrington. By Command of his Royal Highness. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: Benefit Salle. By Command of his Royal Highness. Receipts: money #122 18s,; tickets #42 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: Italian Jealousy; or, French Gallantry; With the Tavern Bilkers

Dance: HHighlander and Mistress-Salle, Mrs Legare; French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Legare

Event Comment: Benefit DuPre and Mrs Pelling. By Command of his Royal Highness. Receipts: money #43 6s. 6d.; tickets #93 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers

Dance: End I: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; II: A new Serious Dance-Dupre, Mrs Pelling; III: Lads and Lasses-Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Ogden, Lanyon, Miss LaTour; IV: Myrtillo-Dupre, Mrs Pelling, Moreau, Miss LaTour, Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; V: The Dusty Miller (a new Jig)-Moreau

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Violante. By His Royal Highness's Command. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Event Comment: MMiss Hollyday. By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: money #61 1s. 6d.; tickets #71 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: HHighland Dance-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: Benefit Boman and Mrs Walter. By Command of his Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: #92 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Plume-Giffard; from the Theatre Royal in Dublin: Balance-W. Giffard; Worthy-Smith; Brazen-Collet; Kite-W. Williams; Bullock-R. Williams; Melinda-Mrs Purden; Sylvia-Mrs Thomas; Rose-Mrs Mountfort; Lucy-Mrs Haughton; With a New Prologue-; Epilogue address'd to the Town-.

Dance:

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. [The Prince, accompanied by the Duke of Manchester, Lord Charles Cavendish, and Colonel Schutz, present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Prince of Wales, attended by Lord Ashburnham and Colonel Townshend, attended. In Daily Post, 5 Nov., The Conscious Lovers had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #82 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: money #51 15s.; tickets #44

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rape

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Lovers Opera

Event Comment: [By Ebenezer Forrest.] By Command of His Royal Highness. After the Manner of the Beggar's Opera. All the Habits and Scenes entirely New. Receipts: #161 18s. 6d. [For a comment on this performance, see Thomas Edwards to John Clerke, "Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others", N & Q (August 1953), p. 338.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist; Or, Vulcan's Wedding

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: #93 8s. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist

Event Comment: [K$King, Queen, and the rest of the Royal Family present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lotharius