SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Lord Treasurer Danby"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Lord Treasurer Danby")') 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 2031 matches on Event Comments, 1737 matches on Performance Comments, 141 matches on Performance Title, 43 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: King not being sufficiently recover'd the School for Wives deferr'd. Paid half year's rent to the Duke of Bedford to Mich. last #165 2d.; Insurance of theatre and New Building to Christmas 1774 from this day #51 10s. 6d.; Mr G. Garrick on acct #100. Receipts: #183 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Towards Supporting a Charity School for the Education of Children belonging to the Society of Ancient Britons (Hopkins Diary); Rec'd stopages #26 11s. 6d.; Paid salary list #530 2s.; King's extra salary #3; Mr Dibdin's draft #50. Receipts: #250 4s. Charges: #84. Profit to Charity School: #166 4s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Event Comment: Receipts: #242 19s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Event Comment: Benefit for the Dispensary for the Infant Poor, Soho Square. Paid Housekeeper's Bill #6 1s. 1d. Receipts: #180 16s. 6d. Charges: #84. Profit to Dispensary: #96 16s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Song: (By Particular Desire) O! What a Charming Thing's a Battle!-Mr Bannister

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of mainpiece. Paid half year's rent to Mr Wegg to Mich. last #57; Mr Stockdale for Men's cloaths, &c. #7 13s. 6d. Receipts: #232 10s. 6d. Charges: #73 10s. Profits for author: #159 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Event Comment: Last time of performing before the Holidays. Receipts: #241 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

Event Comment: Fri 24 Paid 5 days salary at #88 7s. per diem, --#441 15s.; Mr King's extra salary #2 10s.; Mr J. French on acct #21 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Event Comment: By Command. 6th time. Paid for 2 extra flutes (16th inst. incl.) #1 10s. Receipts: #249 15s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Christmas Tale

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Author's 1st Night. [For profits to Garrick see payments of 21 Jan. 1774.] Paid Mr Hopkins for Licences of Albumazar. Prologue & Epilogue, Deserter, Fair Quaker, School for Wives, & Xmas Tale #9 9s. Receipts: #223 11s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Christmas Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Event Comment: Paid Mr Dibdin per order Mr D. G. #10 10s.; 2 extra Guitars 4 nights #3. Receipts: #236 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Event Comment: The Author's 2nd Night. [Prologue to mainpiece printed in the Public Advertiser.] Paid Mr J. French on acct #5 5s.; Housekeeper's 2 Bills #11 6s. 1d.; Properties #2 6s. 5d. Receipts: #240 11s. 6d. Charges: #73 10s. Profit to author: #167 1s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Event Comment: Paid Chorus 4 nights (4th inst. incl.) #7 2s. Receipts: #219 14s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Receipts: #155 18s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Christmas Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

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Role: Lord Brilliant Actor: Fawcett
Event Comment: Paid tallow chandler's 4th Bill #44 14s.; half year's lighting &c. to Mich. last St Martin's #12 3s.; Mr Thomson (smith) #58 8s. 6d.; Mr Cole (turner) #10 6s.; Mr Scott (copper laceman) #46 4s. 6d.; Mr Palmer for Spermacetti Candles #275 4s.; Messrs Barrow & Co. for oil #50 15s.; Mr Chettell (timber merchant) #67 16s. 6d.; One year's Insurance of Wardrobe &c. to Xmas 1774 #15; 2 extra Guitars, 3 nights (6th Inst. incl.) #2 5s. Receipts: #220 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Event Comment: Rec'd Stopages #26 13s. 6d.; Paid Salary List #531 12s.; King's extra salary #3; 4 extra bassoons & I flute, 8 nights (this incl.) #16 4s.; 1 Treble Chorus, 8 nights (this incl.) #3; Mr Dibdin per order #10. Receipts: #215 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Christmas Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

Event Comment: Author's 3rd Night. Paid properties 16s. 8d.; Housekeeper's Bill #9 16s.; Chorus 2 nights (8th incl.) #18 15s. Receipts: #212 3s. 6d. Charges: #73 10s. Profits to Author: #138 13s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Author's 3rd Night. [See 21 Jan.] Paid Widow Hunter as usual #2 2s. Receipts: #174 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Christmas Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Event Comment: By Command. 7th time. Paid a Bill for Cotton #2 6s. 8d. Receipts: #255 18s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Event Comment: To the writer of the letter signed Hotspur in the Morning Chronicle 13 Jan. 1774; Sir: I solemnly disavow myself the writer of any anonymous letter in this or any other Newspaper relative to the School for Wives and as to the villainous accusation respecting any personal insult offered me at Liverpool I pronounce it to be a notorious lie. I now call on you to stand forth with your name and your proofs or the world will be convinc'd you are an infamous malignant assassin. Thursday Nt. Jan. 13 1774. James Reddish (Winston MS 10, from Dr Burney News Cuttings). Receipts: #255 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Rec'd Stopages #21 2s. Paid salary list #529 2s.; King's extra salary #3.; Mr S. Barry on note #100. Receipts: #188 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Paid Mr Loutherbourg on acct #41 13s. 4d.; Bill for Portugal dishes #6. Receipts: #159 15s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Christmas Tale

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Event Comment: This night Dr William Kenrick gave his first lecture in his series of The School of Shakespeare, at the Devil's Tavern, in Fleet Street. Topic, I Henry IV. This lecture and those of the two succeeding Wednesday evenings are reviewed in the Monthly Miscellany, Feb. 1774. Receipts: #190 1s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Christmas Tale

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Event Comment: Receipts: #223 13s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Event Comment: Receipts: #201 2s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17730928

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid extra Flutes and Guitars, 3 nights (22nd inst. incl.) #2. Receipts: #242 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Genii