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24 August 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Gentleman's Journal p. 26, August 1692 (licensed 24 Aug. 1692): The first of the three Songs which I send you is set by Mr Purcell the Italian way; had you heard it sung by Mrs Ayliff you would have owned that there is no pleasure like that which good Notes, when so divinely sung, can create. [The song, Ah me! Ah me! to many, many deaths, the words by John Crowne and the music by Henry Purcell, is in Crowne's Regulus. See Early June 1692.

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October 1692 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Gentleman's Journal, October 1692: We are promised a Comedy by Mr Shadwell in a short time, and two or three new Plays after that

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22 November 1692 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Gentleman's Journal, November 16@2: In my first Journal I gave you a large account of the Musick Feast on St Cecilia's day; So, to avoid repetitions, I shall onely tell you that the last was no ways inferiour to the former....The following Ode was admirably set to Music by Mr Henry Purcell and perform'd twice with universal applause, particularly the second Stanza, which was sung with incredible Graces by Mr Purcell himself. [See Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, VIII, and Orpheus Britannicus, 1702, 1706, 1711. The Ode appears to have been written by Nicholas Brady.

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

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January 1693 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Gentleman's Journal, December 1692 (appearing not earlier than January 1693): We are like to be without new Plays this month and the next; the death of Mr Mountfort, and that of Mr Leigh soon after him being partly the cause of this delay. The first that is promised us is a Comedy by Mr Southern, whose Plays are written with too much Politeness and Wit, not to be read by you with uncommon pleasure

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04 November 1693 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Gentleman's Journal, November 1693: An Ode upon His Majesty's Birth-day, Set to Musick by Dr Staggins; and Perform'd before Their Majesties, Nov. 4. 1693. The Words by N. Tate, Servant to Their Majesties. [The Ode was published separately as a broadside in 1693. A song, Gallic force, in vain, set by Staggins and sung to the King on his birthday, is in Comes Amoris, The Fifth Book, 1694.

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

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22 November 1693 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Gentleman's Journal, November 1693: A Song for St Cecilia's Day, By Mr Theo. Parsons. Set to Musick by Mr Finger

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

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18 April 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

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05 May 1757 @ The Chapel at the Foundling's Hospital, or at the Lock Hospital, Hyde Park Corner

Event Comment: Gentleman are desired to come without Swords and Ladies without Hoops

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Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

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24 February 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Gentleman's Magazine, XLX, p. 147: The cause of Macklin against Clarke, Aldys, Lee, James, and Miles came on to be tried in the Court of the King's Bench. The Indictment consisted of two counts; the first specifying that on the 18th of November 1773 the defendents had been guilty of a riot; the other that they had been guilty of conspiracy....The jury withdrew and in a few minutes brought Clark in guilty of the riot and the others of conspiracy. Judgment was deferred till next term

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Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

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06 March 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre