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18160 results for: Keyword - the Sir Williams
We found 11784 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
01 November 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #147 5s. (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: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Petruchio-Woodward; Grumio-Shuter; Taylor-Morgan; Catherine-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: II: The Garland, as17661023

1802
12 November 1766 @ Covent Garden

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

Cast
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Dunstall

Dance: II: The Garland, as17661023

1803
14 November 1766 @ Covent Garden

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: The Village Romps, as17661008

1804
20 November 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Program By Command of their Majesties. Present their Majesties, the Duke of Cumberland, Princess of Brunswick, and Lady Louisa. Paid Yeoman of the Guard #2 2s. Paid Messrs Tomkyn and Robinson a bill for wine, &c. 4s. 3d. (Account Book). Receipts: #243 7s. (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: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Other Characters Actor: Legg, Mrs Baker, Morris, Dibdin, Wignel, Baker, Squibb, DuBellamy, Buck, Weller, Mrs Lampe, Miss Helm, Mrs Mahon, Miss Wilford
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.

Dance: II: Rural Love-Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Miss Wilford, Arnauld, Dumai, Miss Twist, Miss Pitt.[See17641212.

1805
29 November 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Rec'd from Squib for an order for 2 box seats at the latter account for the 27th inst. 5s. (Account Book). [In other words Squib, who was singing in the afterpiece, paid for two guests who came in after the third act of the mainpiece and got seats for half price.] Receipts: #142 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

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

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Sga _Manesiere.
Role: The Other Characters Actor: Legg, Mrs Baker, Morris, Dibdin, Wignel, Baker, Squibb, DuBellamy, Buck, Weller, Mrs Lampe, Miss Helm, Mrs Mahon, Miss Wilford
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.

1806
12 December 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #193 5s. (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: Catherine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: II: Rural Love, as17661120

1807
13 December 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Mr Vincent for coronation anthems &c. 17s. (Account Book). Receipts: #140 3s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

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

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Other Characters Actor: _Buck, Banks.
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.

1808
07 January 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

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

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.

1809
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

1810
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

1811
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

1812
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

1813
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

1814
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: Loves 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.

1815
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.

1816
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

1817
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

1818
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

1819
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

1820
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

1821
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

1822
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.

1823
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

1824
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

1825
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