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 for Miss Farren

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Son in law

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Harper. Mainpiece: Never acted here. Tickets to be had of Miss Harper, No. 16, Catherine-street, Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Performance Comment: Colonel Oldboy-Edwin; Jessamy-Wood; Jenkins-Bannister; Harman-Bowles [From the Theatre Royal in Norwich]; Sir John Flowerdale-Aickin; Lionel-Du-Bellamy; Diana (for that night only)-Mrs Cargill; Jenny-Mrs Wilson; Lady Mary Oldboy-Mrs Webb; Clarissa-Miss Harper.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cargill. Tickets to be had of Mrs Cargill, No. 41, Suffolk-street, Charing-Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: End: As17800530

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 8, Air-street, Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Son in law

Dance: End: As17800615

Entertainment: After the dance: a Variety of Imitations , vocal and rhetorical, and (never attempted before) several in Dialogue-Messrs Bannister

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. 1st piece: Never acted here. 2nd piece: Altered from Prior. Never acted here. The Songs and Chorusses composed by Shield. Tickets to be had of Palmer at his house in Bow-street, Bloomsbury

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Palmer; Scandal-Bensley; Foresight-Edwin; Tattle-R. Palmer; Sir Sampson Legend-Usher; Jeremy-Baddeley; Trapland-Barrett; Ben-Wilson; (with a song in character) A soldier and a sailor-Wilson; Miss Prue-Mrs Wilson; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Lloyd; Mrs Frail-Mrs Cuyler; Nurse-Mrs Love; Angelica-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Edwin
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Lloyd

Afterpiece Title: Henry and Emma

Afterpiece Title: The Son in law

Dance: End 1st piece: As17800615

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of an Election

Dance: End II: Rural Merriment-Aldridge, Miss Besford

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #100 0s. 6d. (72.18.0; 26.7.0; 0.15.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generous Impostor

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Mrs Dangle Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Event Comment: Benefit for the Proprietors. Receipts: #253 11s. (252.6; 1.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End III: The Pilgrim, as17801106; End Act IV: Rural Merriment, as17801025

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #138 9s. (105.18; 30.12; 1.19; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generous Impostor

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Mrs Dangle Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Event Comment: Benefit for Macklin. Receipts: none listed (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: As17801102

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the support of Persons who through Age or Infirmity are obliged to retire from the Stage. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: As17801107

Event Comment: Benefit for the New General Lying-in Hospital in Store-Street, Tottenham-Court-Road. Receipts: #149 1s. 6d. (48.7.6; tickets: 100.14.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of an Election

Dance: As17801018

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Music [of mainpiece].Receipts: #147 10s. (118.0; 29.0; 0.10; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Music [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #209 1s. (176.10.0; 32.2.6; 0.8.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Cast
Role: Miss Bridget Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Dance: As17810102

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Music [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #161 15s. (121.15; 39.0; 1.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Cast
Role: Miss Bridget Actor: Mrs Hopkins.
Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Sinope

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free Mason

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Pantomime [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #270 3s. (269.14; 0.9; tickets: none listed) (charge: #84)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Dance: As17810131

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Sinope

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: After Epilogue: The Caledonian Shepherds, as17801106

Event Comment: Benefit for the Subscription opened in favour of the West India Sufferers [from two hurricanes that had devastated the West Indies on 3 and 10 Oct. 1780]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Dance: As17801216

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece], Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Sinope

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free Mason

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #142 8s. 6d. (117.15.0; 22.19.0; 1.14.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Suppliants

Cast
Role: Deianira Actor: Mrs Crawford

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Catley. Public Advertiser, 15 Feb.: Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be had of Miss Catley, No. 115, Jermyn-street. Receipts: #303 7s. (200.13; tickets: 102.14) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17801107

Song: End I: The Huntsman's Sweet Halloo-Miss Catley; End Afterpiece: Push about the Jorum, with an additional verse on the Occasion-Miss Catley

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #168 18s. (168.2; 0.16; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Suppliants

Cast
Role: Deianira Actor: Mrs Crawford
Event Comment: Benefit for Roncaglia. Opera: The Music composed by Gretry. Tickets to be had of Roncaglia, No. 2, Hay-market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zemira And Azor

Dance: End I: The Pert Country Maid, as17810113; End II: The Fortunate Escape, as17801216; End Opera: Les Amans Surpris, as17801216

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #226 3s. (225.13; 0.10; tickets: none listed) (charge: #115 10s., i.e. common charge #105; pantomime charge #10 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dissipation

Cast
Role: Alderman Uniform Actor: Parsons
Role: Miss Uniform Actor: Mrs Cargill