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A History of the County of Oxford
… 51 Boxing matches were held at Campsfield in 1816. 52 Plays and puppet shows were banned from the town hall in 1771 … have been at the town hall, but by the 1770s there was a theatre at the Six Bells (later no. 16 Oxford Street). 55 … Visiting companies included the Theatre Royal in 1780, and plays were advertised regularly until 1788. 56 In 1788-9 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Natural-History Society was opened in 1836. The theatre, a neat and appropriate building, erected in 1780, by … and otherwise improving the town. There are a small theatre in Christian-street, and an assembly and news room in …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… to perform such tragedies comedies interludes operas plays or farces as now are or hereafter shall be acted … etc. John Davis John Boles Watson, manager of the royal theatre at Cheltenham. Ref.110 BA1/1/516/33 (1789) To the … of such tragedies, comedies, interludes, opera's, plays or farces as now are or hereafter shall be acted …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… bound ever pray John Boles Watson, manager of the royal theatre at Cheltenham. Ref.110 BA1/1/522/76 (1790) To the … of such tragedies, comedies, interludes, opera's, plays, or farces, as now are or hereafter shall be acted … performance of such tragedies comedies interludes operas plays or farces as now are or hereafter shall be acted …