SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Miss Edwards"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Miss Edwards")') 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 13908 matches on Performance Comments, 4441 matches on Performance Title, 1914 matches on Event Comments, 941 matches on Author, and 211 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: [Treasurer's Book lists Devil to Pay as afterpiece. Cross lists The Lying Valet.] Paid to Lewis going to Dr Boyce as per order #2 6s.; Paid to Garrick as per order #197 6s.; Paid to the King's Letter as per Mr Edwards #1 1s. (Treasurer's Book). [The General Advertiser lists Devil to Pay as the afterpiece, by particular desire.] Receipts: #160 (Cross); #124 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Lying ValetThe Devil to Pay

Dance: AAcis and Galatea, as17500219

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love Or The World Well Lost

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. As Mr Edward Berry, one of the comedians of Drury Lane, was returning home from Temple Bar, he was stopt at the end of Arundel St. by three Fellows, one with a Horse-Pistol, another with a short pistol, and the other with a hanger, who robb'd him of his watch, some silver, and his Neck-cloth, and then walk'd off with their booty (General Advertiser, 20 Jan.). During the Performance on Saturday Night [11 Jan.] at Drury Lane, a dispute was carried on at great length between Mr V-n and a Gentleman unknown but on the Gentleman's being made sensible of his error, and making publick submission and Gentleman-like reparation, it was amicably terminated (General Advertiser). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Bridget Actor: Miss Minors

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Event Comment: This day at noon will be published at 6d. A Letter to Mr Henry Woodward, Comedian, occasioned by his letter to the Inspector. by Simon Partridge, the facetious Cobbler of Pall Mall, and son to the late Mr Partridge, famous for his dispute with Isaac Bickerstaff. "Barbarian to attack, a chymist, Critick, Journalist, and Quack" (Anon). Printed for H. Jeffrey in Pope's Head Alley, Cornhill. [Another mock defense of Hill, casting opprobrium on him in the manner of the eightenth-century bully boys of the bathroom. A second edition of Sampson Edwards' Letter to Woodward appeared this day. See Comment, 9 Dec.] Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Miss Haughton

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Peggy Actor: Miss Minors.

Dance: TThe Italian Gardeners, as17521221; Le Matelot Basque, as17521005

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: As17521219

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Ferguson
Role: Lettice Actor: Miss Allen.

Dance: As17551101

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Cast
Role: Irene Actor: Miss Macklin
Role: Slave Actor: Miss Minors

Dance: (BBy Command) the Pantomime Dance-the children, as17551203

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Almeria Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Minors

Dance: [But unspecified.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Athelstan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Ballet: The Judgment of Paris. As17571217

Cast
Role: Juno Actor: Miss Viviez
Role: Venus Actor: Miss Hilliard.

Dance: As17571217

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Floggd Or The English Sailors In America

Song: Diet, The Humours of Bartholomew Fair-Alley Croaker, Signora Ciperini; And a Song- on the late glorious success gained over the French by his Serene Highness Prince Ferdinand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Floggd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Clarinda Actor: Miss Macklin
Role: Sylvia Actor: Miss Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Dance Actor: Arnauld, Miss Valois.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Cast
Role: Molly Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: NNone

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus Alexanders Feast

Performance Comment: As17770214, but Principal Vocal Parts-Edwards (1st appearance in public).

Music: As17770214

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Hale

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece Hornpipe, as17840517; End of Act hi, as17840311athi

Song: End of mainpiece Gramacbree Molly, as17840503

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Marks, Brandon, Edwards, Hall, Rolles, Turtle, Walker, Doe will be admitted (Account-Book). Receipts: #265 5s. 6d. (60.8.6; 3.4.0; tickets: 201.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Zara Actor: Miss Brunton
Role: Leonora Actor: Miss Platt

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Cast
Role: Juno Actor: Miss Stuart
Role: Nysa Actor: Miss Wilkinson.