SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Vernon much Applause Hopkins Diary Benefit for "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Vernon much Applause Hopkins Diary Benefit for ")') 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 14530 matches on Event Comments, 2620 matches on Performance Comments, 638 matches on Performance Title, 35 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit Thurmond. For the Entertainment of his Excellency Don Joseph Dias, Ambassador from the Emperour of Morocco, lately arriv'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: Benefit Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. And (at the Desire of several Persons of Quality) the Boxes are to be open'd to the Pit, and none to be admitted but by printed Tickets, which are deliver'd by him. [Ch. Dering, writing to John Percival, stated that Nicolini got 800 guineas.-Egmont MS, p. 246.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Valentini. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit. And no Person to be admitted but by printed Tickets [at half a Guinea]. Stage Boxes half a Guinea. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Note, the Tickets deliver'd for Pyrrhus and Demetrius to be taken this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #134 3s. [In a complaint by Mrs Oldfield in lc, 7/3. See also Nicoll, p. 291.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Event Comment: Benefit Estcourt, Two Benches of the Pit being Rail'd in to the Boxes for the Conveniency of the Persons of Quality who have taken Bounty Tickets. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth Part I

Event Comment: Benefit Powell. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Event Comment: Benefit Booth. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Booth; Aboan-Powell; Governor-Keene; Blandford-Bickerstaff; Driver-Johnson; Daniel-Pinkethman; Imoinda-Mrs Rogers; Lackit-Mrs Knight; Charlot-Mrs Bradshaw; Lucy-Mrs Bicknell.
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Role: Blandford Actor: Bickerstaff
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Tofts. At the Desire of several Persons fo Quality. Admission as 16 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Rogers. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Event Comment: Benefit Pack

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Event Comment: Benefit Baroness. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. And at the request of some Persons of Quality, 2 Benches of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes at the same Price. [Receipts: possibly #127 2s., according to Baggs.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode

Event Comment: Benefit Keene. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Note, The Tickets deliver'd out for the 14th will be taken this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aurengzebe Or The Great Mogul

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lindsey. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. With the scenes as on 2 April. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs del'Epine. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. The Scenes as on 2 April

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian King Of Portugal

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bradshaw. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Santlow. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. The Scenes as 2 April. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bicknell. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Not Acted these Six Years. [See also Tatler, 16 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Event Comment: Benefit Bickerstaffe. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Note, The Tickets given out for Love for Love will be taken at this Play. [See also Tatler, 16 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [See also Tatler, 26 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

Event Comment: Benefit Husband and Mrs Willis. [Hogan, p. 246, identifies the gentlewoman as Miss Willis.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Event Comment: Benefit Norris. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage Hater Matchd