SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "the Kings Mate"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "the Kings Mate")') 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 2650 matches on Performance Comments, 2635 matches on Performance Title, 1596 matches on Event Comments, 23 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of their Majesties. Present Their Majesties. Gave Yeomen of Guards #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #235 1s

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Event Comment: Benefit towards the establishment of a Fund for the Relief of Performers retiring from the stage. Charges #75 11s. Profit to Fund #143 3s., plus, presumably #13 15s. from 55 Box tickets (Account Book). Receipts: #218 8s

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Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Event Comment: The Masque of Comus oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Reinhold. Paid Varley (plumber) #38 10s.; Huddy (ropemaker) #28 10s. Heafford (plasterer) #23 6s. (Account Book). Receipts: #180 18s. 6d

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. The Masque of Comus oblig'd to be deferr'd. Paid Leverton & Co. (bricklayers) #182 19s. Paid Holme & Co. (timber merchants) #72 1s. Paid Evans (sawyer) #7 12s. (Account Book). Receipts: #168 16s. 6d

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Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17730202, but Lear-Garrick; Gentleman Usher-Burton; The Bell Edition 1773 adds Doctor-Wright; Old Man-Hartry; Cornwall's Servant-Keen; Arante-Miss Platt.

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Musical Lady Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: New Dance, as17730206

Entertainment: End of Farce: (By Particular Desire) The Cries of London-Shuter

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Afterpiece: A new Farce never performed. Altered from Sir Charles Sedley's Piece of the same title by Dr Goldsmith. Acted only this night (playbill). [The notation on the alteration is by Kemble on the playbill. The characters are: Sourby, Octavio, Wentworth, Dancing Master, Scamper, Clarissa and Jenny. See Edition by Alice I. Perry Wood (Cambridge, Mass., 1931).] Charges #66 5s. Profit to Quick #7 6d., plus #80 from tickets (Box 100; Pit 263; Gallery 156) (Account Book). [Brief review of the Grumbler in the Westminster Magazine for May 1773: "It was several years ago translated from the French, and received this night some additional touches from the pen of Dr Goldsmith. An entertainment of one act cannot be expected to contain much. The whole merit of this is centered in one character, and perhaps in one scene."] Receipts: #73 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Grumbler

Dance: After the Interlude: The Whim, as17730426

Monologue: 1773 5 8 End of Play: Interlude. An Interlude by S. Foote Esq; Lady Pentweazle-Quick; Carmine-Davis

Event Comment: Benefit for raising a Fund for the relief of those, who from their infirmities shall be oblig'd to retire from the stage (playbill). Pit and Boxes laid together. Come as early as possible. No Admittance to persons but with tickets. House opens at 5 o'clock. Play to begin at half past 6. [The only house charges for a Fund Benefit seem to have been the incidental expenses as follows]: Renters #8; Supernumeraries & Kettledrums #1 3s.; Soldiers 14s.; Printer #2 6s. 6d.; Extra Constables #1 10s. 6d.; Candles, Oyl & Lampmen #3 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #304 11s. 6d. Charges #17 12s. 6d. Profits to Fund #286 19s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

Dance: V: The Irish Fair, as17721023

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Tragedy, acted but once. [See 1 May. N.B. The Account Book states that the bill was altered to The Busy Body and Golden Pippin.] Receipts: #116 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii; Or, The Fall Of Rosamond

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Related Works
Related Work: The Deuce is in Him Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End: The Highland Reel, as17731112

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Event Comment: Sixth Night. For the Author. Afterpiece: By Desire. Charges: #67 15s. Profit to Hull #139 6s. 6d. Paid Whitefield one quarter year's salary due Xmas last #25, and Sarjant, ditto #10. Paid Bibb (sword cutler's) bill #14 13s. Receipts: #207 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Event Comment: Paid Colman the balance of his 3 nights for the Man of Business #230 7s. 6d. Receipts: #213 4s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Performance Comment: As17740214, but Other characters-_Davis, Cushing (playbill); but not so in +Public Advertiser. but not so in +Public Advertiser.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Noble (upholsterer) #52 5s.; Patrick (tinman) #44 11s.; Halford (leather gilder) #16 10s. Receipts: #219 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Event Comment: Paid Simpson for Dinner for the Orchestra #10 10s. Receipts: #173 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs