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17963 results for: Keyword - the Sir Williams
We found 11545 matches on Author, 6982 matches on Performance Comments, 1316 matches on Event Comments, 1129 matches on Roles/Actors, and 512 matches on Performance Title.

1801
21 January 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #180 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Bennet
Role: Servants at the Statute Actor: Barrington, Miles, Holtom, Gardner, Mrs White
Role: Dance Actor: incidental to the opera.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: Rural Love, as17661120

1802
11 February 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Forty more verses to Miss Wilford appeared in the Public Advertiser, suggesting her ravishing beauty.] Receipts: #220 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Bennet
Role: Servants at the Statute Actor: Barrington, Miles, Holtom, Gardner, Mrs White
Role: Dance Actor: incidental to the opera.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: II: The Female Archer, as17661215

1803
12 March 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Desire. Rec'd from Condell for Fruit Rent #20. Paid Wilford for 30 nights renters money #300 (Account Book). Receipts: #195 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Sir William Belfond Actor: Shuter
Role: Sir Edward Belfond Actor: Gibson

Afterpiece Title: Midas

1804
16 March 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Beard's Night. Charges. #64 5s., Balance to Beard #198 12s. (Account Book). Got but a bad place in the 2s. Gallery at Covent Garden where I saw Love in a Village with the Citizen...At the end of Act 2, we had the dance of the Female Archer, by Mad LaRiviere, Miss Wilford, &c. with Miss Pope of the other House. Ought to be particularly encouraged because she is virtuous. Mr Elliot has sold her to Cumberland (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #262 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Bennet
Role: Servants at the Statute Actor: Barrington, Miles, Holtom, Gardner, Mrs White
Role: Dance Actor: incidental to the opera.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As17661231, but Sir Jasper-Dunstall.
Cast
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Dunstall.

Dance: II: The Female Archer, as17661215

1805
09 April 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Last time of performing it this season. Paid Thos Fellows for 13 yds green bays #1 9s. (Account Book). Receipts: #215 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Bennet
Role: Servants at the Statute Actor: Barrington, Miles, Holtom, Gardner, Mrs White
Role: Dance Actor: incidental to the opera.

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Cast
Role: Sir John Buck Actor: Gibson

Dance: II: The Female Archer, as17661215

1806
08 May 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Morris and Tindal. Tickets delivered out by the deceas'd Mr Anderson will not be admitted. Morris paid half the charges #32 15s. which deducted from half the ready money gave him a profit of #4 12s. plus #83 15s. from his tickets (Box 23; Pit 270; Gallery 375). Tindall bore no expense, but turned over half the value of the tickets he delivered. His total ticket value was #23 2s. (Box 31; Pit 87; Gallery 23) so his profit came to #11 11s.] (Account Book). Receipts: #74 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Sir Novelty Actor: Woodward
Role: Sir William Actor: Dunstall

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Other Characters Actor: _Banks, Buck.
Role: The Dances Actor: Sga _Manesiere.
Role: The Dances Actor: Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumai, Petro, Rayner, Hussey, Curtat, King, Miss D. Twist, Miss Daw, Miss Pitt, Miss Barowby, Miss Twist, Miss Hilliard, Fishar, Sga Manesiere. With New Music, Scenes, Habits and Decorations.

1807
02 June 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Miss Biddy Actor: the young Gentlewoman who performs Lucy.

1808
04 June 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Commissary

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

1809
05 June 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

1810
10 June 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Commissary

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

1811
12 June 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Old Philpot-Weston; Young Wilding-Davis; Young Philpot-Palmer; Sir Jasper Wilding-Strange; Corinna-Mrs Palmer; Maria-Mrs Gardiner.
Cast
Role: Sir Jasper Wilding Actor: Strange

1812
15 June 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

1813
19 June 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The above Play and Farce, will not be performed again for a considerable time. Neville MS Diary: Shuter took off Alderman Beckford...The House very full

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Commissary

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: As17670608 but Sir Jacob-Sowdon; Bruin-J. Palmer (Neville).
Cast
Role: Sir Jacob Actor: Sowdon

1814
25 June 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By desire of several Persons of Distinction. [Though the pit and galleries were not advertised to open until 5:30 p.m., Neville had already entered the pit by 5 p.m.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Commissary

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: As17670617 but Occasional Prologue-as17670529 J. Palmer, being positively the last time of its being performed.
Cast
Role: Occasional Prologue Actor: as17670529 J. Palmer, being positively the last time of its being performed.
Role: Sir Jacob Jalap Actor: Sowden.

1815
20 July 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Commissary

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Cast
Role: Sir Jacob Jalap Actor: Sowden.

Dance: II: New Tambourine Dance-; End: Hornpipe-Froment

1816
03 August 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Commissary

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Cast
Role: Sir Jacob Jalap Actor: Sowden.

Dance: FFingalian-; Italian Peasant, as17670729

1817
19 August 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Taylors

1818
25 August 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: NNeville MS Diary: He [Foote] does Paragraph, Strap and Slaughter. In the first he took off Faulkner, the printer of the Dublin Journal; am uncertain who in the last two. In the Counsellor, who examines the witness in the affair of El Can...he takes of Willes, son of the late Chief Justice. That examination and other anecdotes are not in the printed copy of the Orators...Mrs Jeffereys could scarce do her part for laughing at Foote

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Taylors

Dance: Miss Froment

1819
01 September 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Commissary

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Taylors

Performance Comment: As17670729 but Campbello-Keen; Christopherides-Pearce; Timotheus-_.

1820
04 September 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: NNeville MS Diary: The last three he [Foote] has not done for some time. I like Woodward better in young Philpot. Both add some crochets of their own. I don't think he took off Mr Whitefield well. Cole, Shift and Smirk he does inimitably. He has a great command of features in the ludicrous way, not such as that of Garrick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17670819, but Mrs Cole, Smirk, and by Particular Desire Shift, Squintum-Foote; Tally-; Dick-.
Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-Foote for the first time these two years; Young Wilding-Davis; Dapper-Quick; Beaufort-Smith; Sir Jasper-Newton; Old Philpot-Shuter; Maria-Mrs Mahon for the first time.
Cast
Role: Young Philpot Actor: Foote for the first time these two years
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Newton
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Mahon for the first time.

Dance: II: New Serious Dance-; End: New Comic Dance, The Gallant Peasant-Miss Froment

1821
09 September 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Young Philpot Actor: Foote for the first time these two years
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Newton
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Mahon for the first time.

Dance: Miss Froment

1822
11 September 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Commissary

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Davis
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Castle
Role: Sir Richard Wealthy Actor: Gardner
Role: Scaffold the Builder Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: As17670608 but Old Wilding-Castle; Kitty-_; Sir James's Servant-_; Miss Grantham's Servant-_.

Dance: II: Hornpipe-; End: The Fingalian-Miss Froment

1823
28 September 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece: With alterations and additions. News arrived of the death in Monaco of His Royal Highness Edward Augustus, Duke of York, next brother to His Majesty. Hopkins MS Notes: About eleven o'clock orders came from the Lord Chamberlain that the House must be stopt performing on account of the death of the Duke of York. --Fresh bills were printed and posted about the House that there would be no play that night. Neville MS Diary: Procured No. 5289 of the General Evening Post which contains my letter concerning the St. James' Company of Comedians. Glad to hear that the Lothario of that Company, the Infamous York, is called to that Tribunal where there is no respect of persons. Canceled

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Cast
Role: Sir William Douglas Actor: Havard

Afterpiece Title: NNone

1824
05 October 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Cast
Role: Sir William Douglas Actor: Havard

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Others Actor: Parsons, Dodd, Bransby, Moody, Baddeley, Burton, Weston, Hartry, J. Palmer, Ackman, Messink, Johnston, Strange, Castle, Fox, Mrs Johnston, Mrs Hippisley, Mrs Dorman, Mrs Smith, Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Matthews, Miss Pope
Role: The Dances Actor: Duquesney, Sg and Sga Giorgi, Miss Collett.

1825
23 October 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17670918, but Young Meadows-DuBellamy; Eustace-Baker; Margery-Mrs Stephens; With a Dance- Incidental to the opera; Servants at the Statute-_.
Cast
Role: With a Dance Actor: Incidental to the opera
Role: Sir William Actor: Bennet
Role: Servants at the Statute Actor: Barrington, Miles, Holtom, Gardner, Mrs White

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: II: A New Pantomime Dance, as17671016