SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "W B Squire"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "W B Squire")') 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 1698 matches on Performance Comments, 360 matches on Event Comments, 265 matches on Author, 252 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Performance Comment: Sir Edward-Quin; Squire-Chapman; Belfond Jr-Milward; Trueman-Wright; Isabella-Mrs Clive; Teresa-Mrs Mills; Mrs Termagant-Mrs Pritchard; Attorney-Havard; Hackum-Shepard; Cheatly-Woodward; Shamwell-Ridout; Bully-Reed; Lolpoop-Turbutt; Termagant-Winstone; Scrapeall-Cole; Lucia-Mrs Chetwood; Mrs Hackum-Ray; Ruth-Mrs Macklin; Sir William-Macklin.
Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Chapman

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: II: Pierots-Lalauze, Pelling; III: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Performance Comment: Sir William Belfond-Phillips (from the Theatre Royal Dublin); Squire-Chapman; Sir Edward Belfond-Bridgwater; Belfond Jun-Hale; Lolpoop-Hippisley; Truman-Cashell; Attorney-Ridout; Scrapeall-James; Capt Hack'em-Marten; Cheatly-Rosco; Shamwell-Gibson; Termagant-Anderson; Teresia-Mrs Hale; Isabella-Mrs Vincent; Lucia-Miss Hippisley; Mrs Hack'em-Stoppelaer; Ruth-Mrs Martin; Mrs Termagant-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Chapman

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Mountebank; or, The Squire Electrified

Performance Comment: Harlequin-M. L'Agile, from Paris; Squire-Yates; Columbine-Mrs Smith; Clown-Warner.
Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Yates

Dance: Matthews, M'Neil, Mrs Addison, Miss Rayner (1750 ed.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, The Fo Bit

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin; or, 'Squire in the Suds

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips; Colombine's Father-Middleton; Shadow-Ferguson; Squire Gawky-Slater; Porter-Brown; Constable-Williamson; Colombine-Miss Agnetta.
Cast
Role: Squire Gawky Actor: Slater

Song: Phillips, Miss Agnetta

Dance: Phillips, Miss Agnetta

Event Comment: The United Company. BM Sloane MS 3929, newsletter: 19 May 1688: On Munday last the King prince and princess were to see a play called the Squire of Alsatia. [I owe this quotation to Professor John Harold Wilson.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna; Or, The Double Elopement

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: II: A New Spanish Dance-Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli, Dagueville, Sga Vidini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus [part I Only

Afterpiece Title: Favourite Selections from Samson

Afterpiece Title: The Messiah

Song: In 3rd piece: He was eyes unto the blind-Harrison [Siroe]; after violin concerto: The Woody Vale (composed by Miss Poole)-Master Welsh

Music: End 1st piece: a new concerto on the hautboy (composed by W. Parke)-W. Parke; End 2nd piece: a new concerto on the violin-Alday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: IV: The Drunken Peasant-Morris; The Clown-W. Vaughan; V: A Hornpipe-Morris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Performance Comment: Townley-Ryan; Manly-Delane; Lady Grace-Mrs Barrington; Basset-Anderson; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Cushing; Myrtilla-Miss Young; Trusty-Miss Haughton; Sir Francis-Arthur; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Bambridge; Squire Richard-Collins; Moody-Dunstall; Miss Jenny-Miss Minors, being her first appearance on that stage; Lady Townley-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Squire Richard Actor: Collins

Afterpiece Title: Phebe; or, The Beggar's Wedding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lover's Opera

Performance Comment: Parts-Oates, Miller, Harper, Griffin, Berry, Ray, Mrs Thurmond, Mrs Cibber, Miss Raftor; but edition of 1729 lists: Justice Dalton-Harper; Edgar-Oates; Moody-Ray; Varole-Miller; Aminadab Prim-Griffin; Squire Clodpole-Berry; Clara-Mrs Cibber; Flora-Miss Raftor; Lucy-Mrs Thurmond; Prologue-Cibber Jr.
Cast
Role: Squire Clodpole Actor: Berry

Dance: FFrench Peasant-a Gentleman just arrived from Paris; Polonese-Rainton, Miss Robinson; Village Dance-Thurmond, Essex, Houghton, Rainton, Mrs Mills, Miss Robinson, Mrs Walter, Mrs Houghton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Performance Comment: See17370331 but By Captain Gulliver's Company of Lilliputians: Gaylove-Master W. Hamilton; Squire Sapscull-Master J. Hamilton; Arabella-Miss Norris; Combrush-Miss Roberts.

Song: II: A Dialogue composed by Purcell-the Masters Hamilton; IV: Singing in Italian -Mrs Chambers

Dance: III: Dutchman and Frow-Vallois, Mrs Bullock; V: Scot's Dance-Haughton, Mlle Roland; End Afterpiece: French Peasant-Master Oates, Miss Oates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Performance Comment: As17851205, but The Squire-Brown; Bacchus-Cubitt .
Cast
Role: The Squire Actor: Brown

Dance: End of mainpiece Rural Merriment by Jackson and Mrs Ratchford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deserted Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Tythe Pig

Performance Comment: Countryman-Byrn; Capt. Wade-Holland; Drummer-Farley; Squire-Follett; Tythe Parson-Hawtin; Serjeant-Cranfield; Boniface-Thompson; Dickey Gossip-Rayner; Steward-Simmons; Corporal-Barnes; Country Woman-Mme Rossi; Parson's Wife-Miss Leserve; Peggy of Darby-Mlle St.Amand.
Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Follett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Last Of The Family

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Dowton, Wewitzer, Bannister Jun., C. Kemble, R. Palmer, Suett, Caulfield, Packer, Miss Pope, Mrs Jordan, Miss Tidswell. [Cast from Monthly Visitor, May 1797, p. 450, and suggested by Genest, VII, 293: Sir John Manfred-Dowton; Sir Adam ap Origen-Bannister Jun.; Squire Abel-Wewitzer; Peregrine-C. Kemble; Beau Tiffany-Suett; Ned Flexible-R. Palmer; Lady Manfred-Miss Pope; Letitia Manfred-Mrs Jordan; Lucy-Miss Tidswell; unassigned-Caulfield, Packer; [but see below. Address [as Prologue]-Bannister Jun. (in the character of Sheva) [in The Jew]; Epilogue-Mrs Jordan.
Cast
Role: Squire Abel Actor: Wewitzer

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Song: In I: The Song [Blest were the hours], Song incidental to the Epilogue-Mrs Jordan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cadmus Et Hermione

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: Pantomime Dance, The Vintage, as17661011

Entertainment: V: a New Interlude, The Modern Traveller-Mr Yates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Dance: III 2nd piece: a Hornpipe-Master Byrn, in girl's clothes (London Chronicle, 9 Aug., and see17810810) This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: De Montfort

Afterpiece Title: The Purse

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Sedgwick, Dignum, Danby, Wentworth, Maddocks, Evans, Cook, Danby Jun., Tett, Caulfield Jun., Sawyer, Aylmer, Willoughby, Bardoleau, Clark, Mead, Elliot, Ms Stephens, Ms Leak, Ms Arne, Ms Menage, Ms B. Menage, Ms Wentworth, Ms Roffey, Ms Jacobs, Ms Saunders, Ms Maddocks, Ms Bristow, Ms Butler, Ms Gawdry

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King John

Performance Comment: Prince Arthur-Miss Burgess; With a New Prologue- in the Characters of Shakespear's Ghost, the Squire, Mr Student, and Mr Bays; concluding with an Address to the Ladies- of the Shakespear's Club.

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Milliners

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aurelio And Miranda

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Song: As17981231

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Squire Basinghall

Cast
Role: Squire Basinghall Actor: Mullart

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Mutineers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Squire Basinghall

Cast
Role: Squire Basinghall Actor: Mullart

Afterpiece Title: Politicks on Both Sides

Performance Comment: Sir Libel Hothead-Mullart; Truelove-Aston; Fanny Wellplot-Mrs Mullart; Constantia-Mrs Talbot; Squire Caleb-Lowder; Sir Politick Staunch-Turner; Mrs Nightrail-Smith; Camillus-Lacy; Gazetteer-Mrs Charke. A New Epilogue, spoken by Mrs Charke in the Character of Gazetteer .
Cast
Role: Squire Caleb Actor: Lowder
Event Comment: Benefit of Mattocks and Hull. Tickets deliver'd for The Busy Body will be taken. No Building on Stage. [Playbill suggests Beard and Mattocks took the parts of Sailor and Squire for the 1st time this night. According to Genest they had performed them since 28 Nov. 1760, i.e., for 23 times this season. Possibly their parts were originally reversed.] Receipts: #79 17s. 6d. plus income from tickets: Mattocks #40 6s. (Box 37; Pit 159; Gallery 72); Hull #42 1s. (Box 80; Pit 111; Gallery 54) (Account Book). Charges: #64 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: As17601128, but full cast: Sailor-Beard;in which by Desire, Heart of Oak-Beard; Squire-Mattocks (being the first time of their appearing in tnese characters); Dorcas-Mrs Vernon; Sally-Miss Brent.
Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Mattocks

Dance: Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Benefit for Johnston (housekeeper). No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken. [The playbill lists this night as the first appearance of Vernon and Champness in the characters of Squire and Thomas, but see 9 April, where they had appeared in them.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: As17630503, but Squire-Vernon; Thomas-Champness.
Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Vernon
Role: the Squire Actor: a Gentleman

Dance: II: The Irish Lilt, as17621023

Event Comment: [Theatrical Review, 6 Dec.: re afterpiece: "Thomas is well supported by Mr Vernon who...is the best acting singer on the stage...Mr Davies appeared for the first time in the character of the squire, and discovered no inconsiderable degree of merit.--Dorcas by Mrs Love--This character is better played here by Mrs Dorman. [Both surpassed by Mrs Thomson at cg.] Mrs Scott does justice to the songs, being an accomplished singer, but as an actress she is insufferably insipid and inanimate."] Paid Mr Russell for men's cloaths #30; Paid Mr Follett on note #10 10s.; 2 Clarinets 6 nights (2nd incl.) #9 9s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #243 19s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: Thomas-Vernon; Squire-Davies; 1st time; Dorcas-Mrs Love; Sally-Mrs Scott; To conclude with a dance-incidental to the Piece.
Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Davies