Manuscripts

A Loyal, Comic, and Masonic Olio

Description

No application.

MS: dated Hull, Jan. 2, 1804.

J.P.C. in B.D.: Oglio-'A loyal comic and masonic Olio consisting of songs, recitation and dialogue' was given at the Hull Theatre in 1804 and on Jany 2d. it was sent to the Licenser for his authority-The Songs were by Mrs. Aickin, Mr Cummins, Knight Gattie & others.

Type

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Production date

1737-1824.

Call number

LA 1400

Creator

Larpent, John (1741-1824)(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Purchased with the Ellesmere collection from John Francis Granville Scroop Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere, through the agency of George D. Smith and Sotheby's of London, 1917. The collection was purchased by John Payne Collier. In 1853, he sold it to Francis Egerton, Viscount Brackley and 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857).

A Loyal Effusion [in Honor of His Majesty's Birthday]. Occasional piece, 1 act. Charles Dibdin

Manuscripts

No application. Prod. C.G., June 4, 1794. MS: dated 1794; headed A Loyal Effusion, Consisting of Dialogue Music & Spectacle to conclude with a Song & Chorus in honor of his Majesty's Birth-day written and composed by Mr. Dibdin. J.P.C. in B.D.: The date ought to be 1794 [B.D. gives it 1797] and Larpent enters it in his license-book on 29 May 1794-His copy was also dated 1794.

LA 1030

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St. Margaret's Cave. Play, 5 acts. George Charles Carr

Manuscripts

No application. [1804?] MS: prologue and epilogue. J.P.C. in B.D.: Larpents Copy was in the hand writing of the author who thus inscribed it on the cover. 'Written by George Charles Carr of the Theatres Royal York and Hull-John Wilkinson Esq manager.' It was licensed 30th. Decr. 1804. [The original cover, here referred to, has been removed from the MS.]

LA 1432

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The Pharo Table. Dialogue and songs. Comedy, 3 acts. From Susannah Centlivre, The Gamester

Manuscripts

Application n.d. [Mar., 1789], Thomas Harris, C.G. Prod. (as The Faro Table) Apr. 4, 1789. MS: notice states, The following Dialogue & Songs are in [tended?] as the Alteration from a Comedy of Five Acts call'd The Gamester written by Mrs. Centlivre, into a Comedy of Three Acts call'd the Pharo Table...; dated, by Larpent(?), March 1789. J.P.C. in B.D.: Some new songs as well as new dialogues were added and were sent for Licence in March 1789.

LA 820

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The Soldier's Opera. Comic opera, 2 acts. Peter Ewing

Manuscripts

No application. [1791?] MS: title-page states, Written by Captain P Ewing Marines The Music by Dibdin; MS is signed at end, Peter Ewing Capt: of Marines The 2d Day of April 1791. Comp. [1792] (K-D 298): printed version longer than MS. J.P.C. in B.D.: ...it seems doubtful whether it was not performed, although there is no Managers letter with the MS.

LA 930

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Angelina. [Walcot Castle.] Musical drama, 2 acts. Mary Goldsmith (?)

Manuscripts

No application. Prod. Margate (?), 1804 (?). MS: previous title, Walcot Castle, erased (but so listed in B.C.). J.P.C. in B.D.: Larpent licensed it [Mary Goldsmith's Angelina] to Wilmot Wells Manager of the Margate Theatre 25 August 1804.

LA 1431

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Jack the Giant Killer. Pantomime, 1 act

Manuscripts

No application. Prod. Lyceum (?), Aug. 13, 1809 (?). MS: contains songs and some dialogue.

LA 1587

A Loyal, Comic, and Masonic Olio

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