SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Hopwood"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Hopwood")') 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 23 Nov. 1659 John Page, the Treasurer of the Middle Temple, entered in his records: Music, four nights at 30s., and acting The Clown four nights at 10s. (See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 167. See also Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, V, 1314.

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Mainpiece Title: The Countryman Or Clown

Event Comment: 6 Feb. 1659@60: Music, three nights, and acting The Clown #6 (A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 168)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countryman Or Clown

Event Comment: According to A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood (p. 168) the charges came to #11 and the receipt was signed by Will Burgon. The Diary and Will of Elias Ashmole: This day was kept solemnly at the Middle Temple and after the auncient manner. The Lord Chancellor, Judges and Sergeants that were of the Society dined in the Hall, after dinner they had a play, viz. Witt without Money [ed. R. T. Gunter, 1927, p. 76]. Ashmole lists the performance for 1 Nov. 1660, but the records of the Middle Temple point to 2 Nov. 1660 as the proper date

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Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Event Comment: See Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 169, for a fee of #20 paid to Sir William Davenant's@company, the receipt being signed by Richard Baddeley; and for #1 5s. for baize to cover the stage and scenes. The play may well have been Love and Honour

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Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

Event Comment: A play, unidentified, was given at the Middle Temple. Since the Duke's Company acted at the Inner Temple, the King's Company probably Played here. The company received the usual fee of #20. See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 170

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Event Comment: The Duke's Company, the receipts for #20 being signed by Richard Baddeley (A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 170). W. J. Lawrence (Review of English Studies, IX (1933), 221) suggests The Adventures of Five Hours as a possibility. Pepys, Diary: I met Madam Turner...she and her daughter having been at the play to-day at the Temple, it being a revelling time with them

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Mainpiece Title: An Unidentified Play

Event Comment: An unnamed play was given by the Duke's Company, with the usual fee of #20 received by Thomas Crosse. See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 171

Performances

Event Comment: An entry in A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 174, indicates a performance but does not name the play. The Duke's Company

Performances

Event Comment: The Duke's Company gave an unnamed play. See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 174

Performances

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. An unnamed play is the entry in A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 175, but a Prologue to this play "Acted at the Middle Temple" is in A Collection of Poems Written upon several Occasions by several Persons (1673). It may have been acted at this time

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Mainpiece Title: The Sullen Lovers; Or, The Impertinents

Event Comment: The Duke's Company acted at the Revels on this day, but the play is not known. See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p.177

Performances

Event Comment: An unnamed play was acted by the Duke's Company. See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 177

Performances

Event Comment: The Duke's Company acted an unnamed play on this day. See A Calendar of Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 177. Although the payment is dated 13 Feb., it may be a delayed payment for a play on this date

Performances

Event Comment: Although the records are somewhat ambiguous, the Duke's Company possibly acted an unnamed play on this date. See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 177

Performances

Event Comment: The United Company. The players received the customary fee of #20. See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 179. Newdigate newsletters, 3 Feb. 1682@3: Yesterday the Governors? of ye Temple Invited the Greate Lds: of [...] together with the Ld. Keeper to dinner where afterwards they were entertayned with variety of songs & a play was Acted before them Called the Chances by the Kings players (Wilson, More Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 59)

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Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Event Comment: An unnamed play was given by the United Company. See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 180

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