The People - James Wild

Gender
Man
Start
1749 (b.)
End
10 Aug 1801 (d.)
Country of Birth
Not known
Locality
Not known
Bio
BD Vol. 16: 81-83
Links

Works (5 Results)

Title Year Type Role
The Miser 1733 Mainpiece Author
Poluscenicon 1789 Afterpiece Author
Harlequin's Chaplet 1789 Afterpiece Author
Harlequin and Faustus; or, The Devil will have His Own 1793 Afterpiece Author
Harlequin and Oberon; or, The Chase to Gretna 1796 Afterpiece Author

Activities (2 Results)

Theatre Activity
Covent Garden Actor, Prompter

Benefits (Employee/Tickets) (37 Results)

Date Theatre Title Mainpiece Title After Piece(s) Door receipts Tickets Total Charges Ticket Count Type
15 May 1766 Covent Garden The Albion Queens Midas Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Sh
18 May 1767 Covent Garden The Way of the World The Dragon of Wantley, Pantomime Ballet, Wapping Landlady £80 17s 6d £128 3s £209 6d Unknown 959 T
27 May 1768 Covent Garden The Inconstant; or, The Way to Win Him The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave, Minuet, Comic Dance £27 19s £118 13s £146 12s Unknown 836 T
06 May 1769 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphosed, Minuet £38 11s 6d £96 18s £135 9s 6d Unknown 706 T
18 May 1770 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke for a Wife The Chaplet £13 2s £252 6s £265 8s Unknown 1808 T
28 May 1771 Covent Garden Romeo and Juliet The Commissary, Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Sh
25 May 1772 Covent Garden Cato The Englishman in Paris, Ellen a Roon, The Old Ground Young £48 4s 6d £141 13s £189 17s 6d £64 1053 Sh
24 May 1773 Covent Garden The Merchant of Venice The Country Madcap in London, Hornpipe £46 15s £132 14s £179 9s £64 1007 Sh
16 May 1774 Covent Garden Don Sebastian, King of Portugal The Dragon of Wantley, Minuet £27 12s 6d £143 4s £170 16s 6d £64 1082 Sh
15 May 1775 Covent Garden Theodosius; or, The Force of Love St Patrick's Day; or, The Scheming Lieutenant, Minuet Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Sh
06 May 1776 Covent Garden Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosias Midas, The Humours of the Newmarket Races Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Sh
05 May 1777 Covent Garden The Rival Queens; or The Death of Alexander the Great The Device; or, The Marriage Office, The Humours of the Newmarket Races, A Welcome to the Spring £126 6d £130 13s £256 13s 6d £72 800 Sh
11 May 1778 Covent Garden Henry V Poor Vulcan!, The Cottage on The Lawn, The Sailors Revels at Portsmouth; or British Glory £146 1s £78 17s £224 18s £72 503
03 May 1779 Covent Garden Illumination; or, The Glaziers' Conspiracy Oroonoko, Chrononhotonthologos, The Humours of the Newmarket Races, The Poney Races Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
01 May 1780 Covent Garden Tamerlane Fete, The Elders, To thee O Gentle Sleep £178 13s £90 1s £268 14s £105 554
07 May 1781 Covent Garden The Farmer's Return from London All for Love; or, The World Well Lost, Entertainment, The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave, The Huntsman's Street Halloo, The Early Horn, When Phoebus the Top of the Hills Does Adorn £210 14s £77 15s £288 9s £105 466
06 May 1782 Covent Garden The Count of Narbonne Fete, The What D'Ye Call It £174 15s 6d £100 8s £275 3s 6d £105 588
19 May 1783 Covent Garden The Winter's Tale Fete, Coalition £222 9s 6d £81 12s £304 1s 6d £105 489
17 May 1784 Covent Garden The Prophetess; or, The History of Dioclesian A Jubilee In Commemoration Of Handel, The Election, Smiling Dawn, Collins' Ode on the Passions, From the Dread Scene, Revenge! Timotheus, Mirth Admit Me of the Crew, As when the Dove £58 1s £57 12s £115 13s £105 373
10 Jun 1784 Covent Garden The Merchant of Venice Comus (1772), Sweet Echo Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
11 May 1785 Covent Garden Rule a Wife and Have a Wife The Lawyer's Panic; or, Westminster Hall in an Uproar, Three Weeks After Marriage Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
22 May 1786 Covent Garden The Chapter of Accidents An Harmonic Festival, The Deserter £106 16s £75 15s £182 11s £105 486
21 May 1787 Covent Garden Rose and Colin The Winter's Tale, The Cantabs, Come Come My Good Shepherds, Four and Twenty Fiddlers All on a Row £120 14s 6d £102 2s £222 16s 6d Unknown 611
12 May 1788 Covent Garden Unknown Drama Tit for Tat, The Nunnery, The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave, Oh Say Bonny Lass Will You Carry a Wallet £118 5s 6d £106 15s £225 6d Unknown 626
08 Jun 1789 Covent Garden Marian Werter, Poluscenicon, Four and Twenty Fiddlers All on a Row, Epithalamium £158 9s 6d £105 10s £263 19s 6d Unknown 626
24 May 1790 Covent Garden All for Love; or, The World Well Lost An Harmonic Festival, Rosina, Nicketerotion at the Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, Grand Dance £158 17s £115 15s £274 12s Unknown 688
06 Jun 1791 Covent Garden Double Falsehood; or, The Distressed Lovers Tippo Saib; or, British Valour in India, Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her Wit's End, Battle Dance, Hark! The Lark At Heav'n's Gate Sings, Black-Eyed Susan, Fond Echo Forbear Thy Fond Sigh, Indian War Song, Poor Orra Tink on Yanco Dear, The Gallant Soldier Born to Arms, The Tobacco Box £55 1s £133 14s £188 15s Unknown 865
28 May 1792 Covent Garden Inkle and Yarico The Irishman in London; or, The Happy African, Wapping Landlady, If You Travel the Wide World All Over: A Planxty, Descriptive of Ireland, Black-Eyed Susan, Can a Lover Pleasure Find, Sweet Bird £234 18s £150 15s £385 13s £105 866
27 May 1793 Covent Garden Every One Has His Fault The Pad, The Shipwreck; or, French Ingratitude, Captivity, Black-Eyed Susan, Farewell To Old England, Dear Mary Adieu £182 5s 6d £146 17s £329 2s 6d Unknown Unknown
26 May 1794 Covent Garden Don Sebastian, King of Portugal The New Divertisement, The Shipwreck; or, French Ingratitude, Solo on union pipes, Duetto on the union pipes and harp £126 19s 6d £166 3s £293 2s 6d Unknown 778
25 May 1795 Covent Garden How to Grow Rich British Fortitude and Hibernian Friendship; or, An Escape from France, Harlequin and Faustus; or, The Devil will have His Own, The Storm, At Dawn Of Life Our Vows Were Plighted, Four and Twenty Fiddlers All on a Row, I was Called Knowing Joey, Our Simple Tale Thus Ended, Thursday in the Morn the Nineteenth of May, The Turban'd Turk Who Scorns The World, To be Sure I Don't Love in My Heart, When Foaming Waves Contrary Beat £144 14s 6d £161 4s £305 18s 6d Unknown 769
16 May 1796 Covent Garden The Deserted Daughter A Melocosmiotes, Oscar and Malvina; or, The Hall of Fingal, The Sea Storm, Come Every Jovial Fellow, I Am a Jolly Gay Pedlar, O Ever in My Bosom Live £190 19s £203 14s £394 13s Unknown 943
22 May 1797 Covent Garden The School for Wives The Village Fete, Oscar and Malvina; or, The Hall of Fingal, The Sea Storm, Imitations, Black-Eyed Susan, Cease Rude Boreas Blust'ring Railer, Come Every Jovial Fellow, O Ever in My Bosom Live £176 £150 6d £326 6d Unknown 690
28 May 1798 Covent Garden Such Things Are Starboard Watch, Harlequin and Faustus; or, The Devil will have His Own, The High Mettled Racer, Performances on the Slack Rope, Patents All the Rage, The Beggar, The Wind Blew Fresh and Fair £134 19s £153 19s £288 18s Unknown 730
13 May 1799 Covent Garden Inkle and Yarico An Egeirophadron, Harlequin's Chaplet, Negro Dance, Black-Eyed Susan £222 2s 6d £177 17s £399 19s 6d Unknown 824
02 Jun 1800 Covent Garden Fashionable Levities A Whitsun Festival, Five Thousand a Year, Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroyed, The Battle Song £151 4s 6d £135 15s 6d £287 Unknown 610
25 May 1801 Covent Garden Unknown Drama Ramah Droog; or Wine does Wonders, Henry and Emma; or, The Nut Brown Maid, The Prisoner at Large £160 4s £182 6s £342 10s Unknown 781
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Money paid (to theatre) (16 Results)

Date Theatre Amount Notes
23 May 1767 Covent Garden £3 8s 6d Recd of Mr. Wylde for do [his 1/2 Value of Tickets 18th May]
04 Jun 1768 Covent Garden £3 18s 6d Recd of Mr. Wilde for his Do. [1/2 Value of Tickets] the 27th. of May
25 May 1769 Covent Garden £7 2s Recd of Mr. Wild for his 1/2 Value of Tickets the 6th Do. [Instant]
26 May 1770 Covent Garden £6 7s 6d Recd of Mr. Wild for his 1/2 Value of Tickets 18 Inst.
15 Jun 1771 Covent Garden £9 16s 6d Recd of Mr. Wild for his Do. [deficiency] Do. [last Season]
02 Jun 1772 Covent Garden £4 9s 10d Recd of Mr. Wild for his Deficiency the 25th May last
07 Jun 1773 Covent Garden £4 8s 9d Recd of Mr. Wild for his deficiency the 29th May
30 May 1774 Covent Garden £8 11s 3d Recd of Mr. Wild for his Do. [deficiency] the 16th Do. [Instant]
18 Jun 1787 Covent Garden £30 Reced of Mr Wild
17 Jun 1789 Covent Garden £25 Reced of Mr Wild, money advanced