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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Royal Family"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Royal Family")') 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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2269 results for: Keyword - Royal Family
We found 1354 matches on Event Comments, 711 matches on Performance Title, 327 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

826
12 April 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Family under Misfortunes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: II: Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde

Song: I: Dialogue composed by Henry Purcel-the Masters Hamilton; III: Miss Jones; IV: Singing in Italian-Mrs Chambers

827
05 May 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Family in Distress. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 5 May: To be Sold: The Interest of the Theatre and Materials in Goodman's Fields. Inquire of Mr Giffard at his House in Grange-Court, in Cary-Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: I: Clown-Vallois; V: Two Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde

Song: IV: Singing in Italian-Mrs Chambers

828
06 May 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Family under real Misfortunes. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hiss'd

Song: TThe Lady's Lamentation for the Loss of Senesino-

829
23 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Family under misfortunes. At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Two Pierrots-Vallois, Pelling; III: Punch-Master Ferg; IV: Comic Dance-younger Miss Scott

830
25 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman (of a Baronet's Family) now under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: I: Punch-Master Ferg; III: Minuet, The Bretagne-Miss Wright, Miss Morrison; V: La Pierraite-Leviez, Mrs Thompson

831
20 March 1739 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Music: With several Concertos on the Organ-; other Instruments-; Particularly a New Concerto on the Organ-by Mr Handel, on purpose for this Occasion

832
28 March 1740 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Music: With the two new Concertos-; performed in the same this Season, for several Instruments. Also the last new Ode- of Mr Dryden's; And the Concerto on the Organ, that was by Mr Handel- on the same Occasion this Season

833
19 December 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: For the Benefit of a Gentleman, with a large Family, who has suffered very great Losses. Receipts; Benefit Turner. Money #19 14s.; seals #42 3s. (Account Book); #60 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Miller and his Wife-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; The Yorkshire Maggot-Haughton, Mlle Roland

834
25 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit an Unfortunate Family. Receipts: #110 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Richardson, Mlle Ozanne; III: Tambourine-Mlle Mechell; IV: Pierots-Richardson, Delagarde

Song: BBritons Strike Home-Leveridge, Salway

835
02 May 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Family in Great Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: La Tambourine Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; IV: Miss Scott; V: Serious Dance-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Song: III: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Lowe

836
04 May 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit a Family in Great Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Grand Dance-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; IV: L'Allamande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: II: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Lowe; V: Blow Blow-Lowe

837
05 May 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Family in Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

838
04 June 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Eminent Merchants in the City of London. Benefit a Family under Misfortunes. [The last performance of the season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: I: If Love be a Fault-Lowe; IV: Blow Blow thou Winter Wind-Lowe

839
16 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for a Family under Misfortune

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17420215

840
02 February 1743 @ James Street

Event Comment: By particular Desire, benefit a Family under Misfortunes and in great Distress. Prices 2s. 6d., 1s. 6 p.m. Note, Those Gentlemen and Ladies that please to honour us with their Company, need not doubt of being well entertain'd and their Favours gratefully acknowledg'd by us, who are humbly petitioning for their Company and Interest, and for which we shall be in Duty ever bound to pray, etc

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

841
02 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: RRoyal family attended.-Deutsch, Handel, p. 561. The new Oratorio...has been performed four Times to more crouded Audiences than ever were seen; more People being turned away for Want of Room each Night than hath been at the Italian Opera.-Quoted by Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 350, from Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 15 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sampson

Music: Solo on Violin-Dubourg

842
30 March 1743 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Music

843
17 November 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow and Four Small Children of the late Henry Carey. Tickets at the stage door, or at the Widow Carey's in Cross St., Hatton-Garden; at Langbourn-Ward Coffee House; and of Mrs Suertt, at the Apple Tree in Cold Bath Fields. N.B. The Unfortunate Widow humbly hopes that the Good Nature and Humanity of her Friends will admit her melancholy circumstances, and the shortness of time, as a sufficient excuse for not waiting on them, and continue the favours, formerly shown to her late Husband, to her and her Distress'd Family, being left entirely destitute of any provision

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: n% Old Man Taught Wisdom; or, The Virgin Unmask'd

844
28 March 1744 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Musical Entertainment

Music: Concerto on German Flute-Weideman; Concerto on Violoncello-Caporale; Concerto on Hautboy-T. Vincent; Concerto on Bassoon-Miller

845
22 December 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Desire of several persons of Quality, for the Benefit of a Family in Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: As17441117

846
23 March 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a distrest Family

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Music: Preamble on the Kettle Drum-Woodbridge

847
10 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Music

848
24 April 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Citizen and family in distress. Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. [Honest Yorkshireman announced on 20 April as afterpiece.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: More Ways than One

849
30 April 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Family under Misfortunes. [Concert formula.] Prices 2s. 6d., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance:

850
15 January 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: [Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. in Daily Advertiser; no bill in General Advertiser. Possibly not acted; see 22 Jan.] Benefit a Gentleman and his Family Under great distress. Tickets may be had of Daniel Findon, Union Coffee House, Cornhill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor