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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Event Comment: On account of Indisposition of a Principal Performer, Abroad and at Home [advertised on playbill of 16 Feb.] cannot be represented till Wednesday next. Account-Book: Paid Enderby, oil merchant, in full for last season #402 13s. 9d. Receipts: #202 0s. 6d. (198.8.6; 3.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Event Comment: Benefit for Haymes. The Last Night of the Company's performing this Season. Account-Book, 28 June: Received for his Majesty's Box 13 nights #130; for the Princess's Box #65; 1 Aug.: Paid half a year's Land, Commutations, Window & House Taxes #193 19s. True Briton 1 June: Tickets to be had of Haymes, No. 8, Duke-street, St. James's. Receipts: #228 18s. 6d. (109.19.0; after-money not listed; tickets: 118.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: End II piece: The Storm-Incledon; End: The Beggar-Townsend

Event Comment: Account-Book: Received of the Earl of Chesterfield for a private box #105; Paid Simonet for 4 rehearsals #8 8s. Receipts: #270 4s. 6d. (259.14.6; 10.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Impressions

Afterpiece Title: The Round Tower

Event Comment: The Fatigue attending the representation of some of the Characters [in The Castle-Spectre] renders it impossible to repeat the performance every night in the week. The 5th night will be on Wednesday. Account-Book: Paid One years' House & Window Tax #222 0s. 6d. Receipts: #396 5s. (315.9.6; 78.0.6; 2.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

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Role: Motley Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for the Voluntary Contribution now open at the Bank, for the Defence of our Country. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Tickets to be had and Places to be taken of Brandon, at the Stage-Door in Hart-street. Tickets also to be had at the Bar of Lloyd's Coffee-House. [Prologue by William Boscawen (Monthly Mirror, Mar. 1798, p. 178. Author of Address unknown.] "A subscription was set on foot behind the scenes," to which most of the performers contributed #10 apiece (Monthly Mirror, ibid). Account-Book, 12 May: Paid into the Bank of England in aid of the Voluntary Contribution #394 15s. Receipts: #518 8s. (280.9; 12.2; tickets: 225.17) [the difference of #123 13s. appears to have been the house charge]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: England Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Sailor or Little Bob and Little Ben

Dance: In afterpiece: Triple Hornpipe-Blurton, Mrs Watts, Mlle St.Amand

Song: End: Interlude of Songs, Glees, and Chorusses: With a jolly full Bottle, Great Britain still her Charter boasts, The Wooden Walls, Queen Betty was a famous Queen, To arms to arms-Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend, Linton, Gray, Street, Lee, Curties, Blurton, Wilde

Entertainment: Monologues. Preceding: An Occasional Prologue-Holman; Preceding singing: An Address to the Audience (instead of Epilogue)-Pope

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In I a Grand Masquerade. Account-Book: Paid Sloper [master carpenter] for Scene Men #40 17s. 11d. Receipts: #179 0s. 6d. (176.9.6; 2.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Performance Comment: Robin Hood-Townsend; Little John-Munden; Ruttekin-Fawcett; Allen o'Dale-Gray; Bowman-Street; Fitzherbert- Powel; Scarlet-Farley; Edwin-Hill (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearacne on this stage); Clorinda-Mrs Martyr; Annette-Miss Sims; Angelina-Miss Mitchell.

Song: End IV: The Funeral Procession of Juliet and a Solemn Dirge-; Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Incledon, Townsend, Linton, Blurton, Street, Gray, Lee, Little, Sawyer, Tett, Dyke, Miss Mitchell, Miss Wheatley, Mrs Iliff, Miss Sims, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follett, Miss Leserve, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Norton, Mrs Gilbert, Mrs Masters, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Blurton, Miss Walcup, Miss Gray, Miss Burnett, Mrs Martyr

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Enderby, oil merchants, on acct. of last season #402 13s. 9d. Receipts: #382 5s. (375.19; 6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Carpenters #40. Receipts: #276 4s. 6d. (227.10.6; 45.3.0; 3.11.0)

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

Event Comment: Benefit for Holman. Mainpiece: Acted but once [28 Mar. 1795] these 5 years. In IV a Grand Banquet. Morning Chronicle, 1 Apr.: Tickets to he had of Holman, No. 73, New-street, Hanover-square. Account-Book: Paid George? Papendick for [unspecified] Manuscript Plays of Kotzebue #200. Receipts: #350 2s. (257.6; 6.1; tickets: 86.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Song: II: the Grand Truimphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon. Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Incledon, Townsend, Hill, Linton, Street, Lee, Little, Sawyer, Tett, Miss Waters, Mrs Atkins, Mrs Chapman, Miss Mitchell, Miss Wheatley, Mrs Iliff, Miss Sims, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follet, Miss Leserve, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Martyr; End: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; End I afterpiece: The Death of Admiral Benbow-Incledon

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Holford for coals #235 10s. 10d. Receipts: #269 16s. 6d. (262.1.6; 7.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Management

Afterpiece Title: The Naval Pillar

Dance: As17991007

Song: In afterpiece: As17991011

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Account-Book: Paid Yeomen of the Guard #2 2s.; Their Majesties' Servants #3 19s. 6d. Receipts: #505 19s. 6d. (499.2.6; 6.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Management

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Account-Book: Paid One Quarter Land, Window and House Taxes due Michaelmas last #102 6s. 9d. Receipts: #261 10s. 6d. (253.12.0; 8.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wise Man Of The East

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Bentham for half a year Rat Catching due Xmas last #2 12s. 6d. Receipts: #271 2s. 6d. (265.13.6; 5.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Netley Abbey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Bush

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Traitor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark