SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C Bannister"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C Bannister")') 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 9758 matches on Event Comments, 4881 matches on Performance Comments, 1353 matches on Performance Title, 31 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
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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Event Comment: An order of the Court of Common Council for London forbids any performances of plays or interludes at Bartholomew Fair. See a broadside in the British Museum [1851 b. 25 (25)], reported by Alfred Jackson, Review of English Studies, XIV (1938), 55. Flying Post, 22-25 June 1700: The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Alderman have ordered that no Play-house Bills be affix'd on any Post, &c. in this City; and the like Orders are resolved on in Westminster

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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

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Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant Or The Sick Ladys Cure

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

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Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger, Mrs Bullock

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Mainpiece Title: Argentina A Magician Disguised Serving Diana Transformed Into A Gipsie Armenian Footman Fiend Lady And Counsellour

Dance: As17260928

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Mainpiece Title: il Convitato Di Pietra O sca Don Giovanni Libertino Viz

Dance: [Grotesque Characters-Poitier, Mrs Anderson, others

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Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Miser or Wagner and Abericock