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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Society of Free British Fisheries"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Society of Free British Fisheries")') 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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679 results for: Keyword - Society of Free British Fisheries
We found 418 matches on Event Comments, 207 matches on Performance Title, 73 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

101
05 September 1738 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merlin, The British Enchanter; Or, St

Afterpiece Title: The Country Farmer; or, Trick upon Trick

Music:

102
19 February 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, Merlin The British Enchanter

103
04 August 1743 @ Tottenham Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Glorious Queen Of Hungary; Or, The British Troops Triumphant; With The Comical Humours Of paddy The Irishman, tom Thimble The Taylor, And tim Buzzle The Cobler

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Hussar

104
13 March 1753 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory Concert

Dance: Dancing in the old British Taste-; Hornpipe-Timbertoe

105
10 April 1753 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Song: TThe Dust Cart-Toe; accompanied-, Bombasto; Grand Dance in the Old British Taste-; Hornpipe-Timertoe

106
04 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory; Or, Mrs Midnight's New Carnival Concert

Music: Will be introduced a NewConcerto for the Tambour de Basque-; accompanied with the Original Jews@Harp-; the Hurdy Gurdy-

Dance: DDancing-Banbaregines, Rerriminonies (just arived from +Piemons); End Concert: a New British Dance, The Cassey-a company of Lilliputians; to which will be added a new Entertainment of Music and Dancing-a company of Lilliputians just arrived, being their first time of performing in +England

107
05 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540704

108
09 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540704 but The Cassey-_; Le Nee Galon-

109
11 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540704 but The Cassey-_; Le Nie Jaloux-Sanbucio, Sga Remperino

110
13 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540711

111
16 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: Dancing, as17540711 Entertainment of Music and Dancing, as17540711 Le Nie Jaloux, as17540711 but +Attenino

112
17 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540716

113
18 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540716 but Entertainment of Music and Dancing-_; The Old Woman's Whim-a company of Lilliputians

114
23 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory; Or, Mrs Midnight's New Carnival Concert

Dance: As17540718

115
26 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540718

116
01 August 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540718

117
19 September 1754 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Afterpiece Title: [The Birth of Harlequin; or, The Old Woman's Whim

Dance: To conclude with A Dance in the Ancient British Taste-Choice Spirits from Comus's Court

Music: [NNew Concerto for the Tambour de Basque-

118
21 September 1754 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser Outwitted; Or, Phelim In The Suds

Dance: A Grand Dance in the British Manner-

119
03 September 1756 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ngland Triumphant; Or, The British General

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Beggars; with the Comical Humours of his Royal Consort Queen Tatter

Entertainment: Variety of Singing, Dancing, Rope Dancing, Tumbling-eminent performers lately arrived from Italy

120
02 September 1758 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitch'd; Or, The Devil To Do About Her

Afterpiece Title: The Joyous Return of the Brave British Tars from the Conquest of Cape Breton

121
26 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Mainpiece: Not acted in 20 years. Receipts: #171 15s. 6d. plus #112 17s. from tickets (Box 272; Pit 299). Paid Hughes and Batten for 4 1!2 yds muslin for sleeves for women dancers 18s. 9d. (Account Book). [Shuter's Interlude is Larpent MS 188, a verse monologue with songs, giving the geneology of Bucks from Nimrod's heirs-hunters who now seek ladies in Boxes rather than foxes. A patriotic song on successes at Minden, Quebec, Cape Breton, &c. ending]: @We wish as we ought that Great Britain may thrive@That freedom and friendship may faction survive@On sea and on shore, as we have may we shine@And this year sixty-one equal fam'd forty-nine.@ Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief; Or, The Husband's Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: II: (By Desire) Hornpipe-Poitier Jr

Entertainment: End: A Comic Lecture; or, Tea a-la-Mode, in the manner of Foote-Wilkinson; The Cries of London-Shuter; End Afterpiece: the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the Order of British Bucks-Mr Shuter; with the whimsical behaviour of Choice Spirits, and Mons Thurot's Trip to Carrickfergus-

122
16 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Entertainment: After the Farce:(this night only) the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the: Order of British Bucks, with the Whimsical Behavior of Choice Spirits and M. Thurot's Trip to Carrickfergus-Mr Shuter. See17610326

Dance: The Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

123
08 August 1765 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: I: The Dutchman, as17650719

Song: II, IV: The British Fair, Through the Wood, Laddie-a young Lady

Entertainment: CComic Post Haste Observations in his Journey to Paris-Shuter; followed by Dance The English Sailor at Marseilles-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street

124
13 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

125
12 November 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Afterpiece Title: Wits Last Stake