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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "English Scotch and Irish Ballads"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "English Scotch and Irish Ballads")') 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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2374 results for: Keyword - English, Scotch, and Irish Ballads
We found 1509 matches on Performance Title, 553 matches on Event Comments, 480 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

201
15 May 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Dance: Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Cook, Newhouse, Mrs Bullock, Miss Smith; Scotch Dance-Newhouse, Miss Smith; Marie-Cook, Miss Schoolding; The last Comic Dance-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith

202
07 April 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit delaGarde's Two Sons. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman's A Riddle

Dance: Dutch Skipper-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock; A new Scotch Highlander-delaGarde's Two Sons

203
25 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bullock, Miss Lindar; A new Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

204
23 March 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Performance Comment: As17210106, but Foppington-Cibber; Loveless-Wilks; Worthy-Mills; Young Fashion-Walker; Sir Tunbelly-Shepard; Coupler-Johnson; Lory-Norris; Shoemaker-Miller; Amanda-Mrs Porter; Hoyden-Mrs Bicknell; Nurse-Mrs Baker.
Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Porter

Dance: As17201018; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

205
06 June 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cook and Wilkins, Boxkeeper. Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham. Being positively the last Time of the Company's Acting this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Willis.

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth; Scotch Lass-Mrs Bullock

206
12 April 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: Mrs Booth, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Bullock; particularly Stripping Dance-Boval, Mrs Bicknell; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

207
26 April 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Injur'd Love

Dance: Harlequin and Two Punches-; Scotch Highlander-Lally

208
09 May 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Tenoe; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

209
25 May 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Wright and Miss Seale

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: Booth
Role: Trapland Actor: Norris

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Myrtillo-; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

210
15 May 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Music: End I: Concerto by Monsieur Dieupart for Hautboys Flutes and Violins-; End II: Concerto by Signior Carbonelli-; End III: Concerto by Signior Albinoni-; End IV: Eighth Concerto of Signior Corelli-

Dance: End I: The Harlequins-Shaw, Mrs Booth; End II: Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; End IV: The Country Maid-Miss Tenoe; End V: Foresters-Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Topham, Miss Tenoe

211
03 October 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Dance: The Hussars-Shaw, Mrs Booth; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

212
07 April 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Dance: Dancing-Shaw, Thurmond, Topham, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe; particularly The Hussars-; Scotch Lilt-

213
08 April 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viii

Dance: Dancing, as17240407 but Boval; +The Hussars, as17240407 Scotch Lilt, as17240407

214
12 May 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Raymond and Bridgwater. Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Willis.

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy; or, The Comical Rivals

Music: Concerto on Little Flute-Baston

Song: A Song on the Death of a Stag , Words by Shakespear, Musick by Henry Carey-Ray; accompany'd with French Horns-

Dance: Foresters-Shaw, Thurmond, Topham, Boval, Topham Jr; Passacaile-Shaw, Mrs Younger; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; Comick Dance-Miss Tenoe

215
14 May 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Performance Comment: Essex-Booth; Queen-Mrs Porter; Southampton-Mills; Burleigh-Cory; Rutland-Mrs Thurmond; Nottingham-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Rutland Actor: Mrs Thurmond

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Foresters-; Saraband-Miss Tenoe; Scotch Dance-Topham, Miss Lindar; Comic Dance-Mrs Bullock

216
11 March 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Dance: PPeasant Dance by Nivelon -Nivelon, Pelling, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

Song: IIn Praise of Love and Wine-Leveridge, Legar

217
07 April 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Benefit Mr and Mrs Egleton. Not Acted these Six Years. Receitps: money #42 8s. 6d.; tickets #65 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Taming Of The Shrew

Dance: [End I: Scotch Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; II: Chacone-Lally, Mrs Wall; III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; IV: Running Footman's Dance-

Song: [LLove and Wine-Leveridge, Legar

218
22 April 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cross and Mrs Vincent. Receipts: money #30 14s.; tickets #100 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

Afterpiece Title: Alexis and Dorinda

Dance: DuPre, Nivelon, Glover, Lally, Newhouse, Pelling, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Legar, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Legare; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

219
30 April 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bath Unmask'd

Dance: End I: French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Legare; IV: Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; V: Myrtillo-

Song: II: The Play of Love-Leveridge; III: Mrs Chambers; In IV: Bath Teazers-Leveridge

220
03 January 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: With all the Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations as usual. Receipts: #37 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Dance: Salle, Dupre, Lally, Nivelon, Mlle Salle, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Wall, Mrs Anderson; particularly French Sailor-Salle; French Peasant-Nivelon; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

221
19 September 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Performance Comment: Clause-Quin; Goswin-Ryan; Hubert-Ogden; Hemskirk-Diggs; Woolfort-Walker; Vandunck-Bullock; Higgen-Hippisley; Prig-W. Bullock; Snap-H. Bullock; Ferrit-Morgan; Gertrude-Mrs Bullock; Jaculine-Mrs Legar.
Cast
Role: Vandunck Actor: Bullock

Dance: CChacone-Dupre, Mrs Pelling; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; Shepherd and Shepherdess, French Sailors-Salle, Mlle Salle

222
11 March 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. Receipts: #42 9s.; tickets #123 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 42 by money and 226 by tickets; stage, 12 by money; pit, 75 by money and 255 by tickets; slips, 5 by money; first gallery, 92 by money and 285 by tickets; second gallery, 40 by money. [For a letter on pantomime, chiefly at lif, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 11 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Nivelon; Louvre-Glover; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; French Sailor-Salle, Mlle Salle

223
07 April 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Walker. Not Acted these Five Years. Written by Mr Otway. Receipts: money #27 2s. 6d.; tickets #70 9s. Probable attendance: boxes, 27 by money and 103 by tickets; stage, 1 by money; pit; 56 by money and 184 by tickets; slips, 3 by money; first galleygallery, 67 by money and 171 by tickets; second gallery, 50 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Song: TThe Lass of Patie's Mill-Miss Warren

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Nivelon; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; Fingalian Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; The Humours of Marriage-Salle, Mlle Salle

224
03 May 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wood, Treasurer. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #12 18s.; tickets #152. Probable attendance: boxes, 13 by money and 220 by tickets; stage, 3 by money; Pit, 13 by money and 464 by tickets; first gallery, 26 by money and 274 by tickets; second gallery, 23 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy

Song: TThe Genius of England-Salway; The Lass of Patie's Mill-Mrs Warren

Music: Between Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: PPierot-Nivelon, Poitier; French Sailor and His Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

225
01 April 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Boheme. Receipts: money #38 12s. 6d.; tickets #89 16s. Probable attendance: boxes, 21 by money and 126 by tickets; stage, 1 by money; pit, 49 by money and 290 by tickets; slips, 10 by money; first gallery, 149 by money and 148 by tickets; second gallery, 87 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Related Works
Related Work: The Duke of Milan Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

Song: BBallad of the Cobler's End-Leveridge