SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C B"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C B")') 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 9670 matches on Event Comments, 3173 matches on Performance Comments, 1218 matches on Performance Title, 295 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: During this month the players petitioned against the management of the United Company. See L. C. 7@3, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, pp. 368-70

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Event Comment: On this date Thomas Betterton and his associates received a license to form a company and to act. L. C. 7@1, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 361

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Event Comment: The Portledge Papers, 19 June 1697: On Thursday last in the neighbourhood of Somerset house in the evening was a great entertaynment of Musick and singing in so much as that part of the Strand was so crouded with coaches and sedans that I having occasion to goe that way could hardly Pass and I heard it reported that it was designed for the Prince of Wales birthday but the Lord Feversham hearing of it put it off till Thursday (ed. S. J. Kerr and I. C. Duncan, London, 1928, p. 261)

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Post Boy, 13-15 April 1699: As both the Theatres have been very industrious to Entertain the Town with several eminent Master in Singing and Dancing, lately arrived, both from France and Italy, as Monsieur Balon, Signior Fideli, &c. we are now assured that the Masters of the Theatre Royal have engag'd Signior Clementine, the famous Eunuch, Servant of the Elector of Bavaria, to Sing on their publick Stage, for the short time of his stay in England. There is very great Expectation from his Performance as being a Person of that extraordinary Desert in Singing, that his yearly Salary on that Account is 500 #. a Year

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Event Comment: Flying Post, 13-15 June 1700: We are credibly informed, That Yesterday a Trial brought on in the Court of Common-Pleas, against one of the players, for Prophanely using the name of God upon the Stage, contrary to an Act of Parliament made in King James the First's time; and that the Verdict was given against the Player; according to the Tenor of the said Act, &c

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Mainpiece Title: Hampstead Heath

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Mainpiece Title: The British Enchanters

Afterpiece Title: The Cuckold in Conceit

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Mainpiece Title: Appius And Virginia

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Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Troy

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Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats or The Tavern Bilkers

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Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats or The Tavern Bilkers

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Mainpiece Title: Abra Mule

Dance: Dupre, Cook, Sandham, Newhouse, Mrs Grace, Mrs Bullock, Miss Francis

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Dance: As17210221

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Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Dance: As17210912

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Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Dance: As17210912

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Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Amadis or The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine

Dance: Sandham's Son, Sandham's Daughter , it being the first Time of their Performance on the Stage this Season

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Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Dance: Shaw, Denoye, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe

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Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third