At Covent Garden, Incledon successfully took on as a tenor several important roles created by his friend the celebrated bass Charles Bannister, about a generation after the original productions. Thus he appeared as Tom Tug in Dibdin's "The Waterman" (first presented at the Haymarket in 1774) and in 1809 took the role of Mr. Steady in Dibdin's "The Quaker" (first presented at Drury Lane in 1777). In 1810, similarly, he appeared as the Serjeant in Isaac Bickerstaffe's musical entertainment of "The Recruiting Serjeant" (formerly produced at the Royalty Theatre in 1789, first 1770), and in 1814 as Mr. Belville (another Bannister role) in Mrs Brook's opera "Rosina" (presented first at Covent Garden in 1783). Since the airs or ballads in these musical dramas stood alone with spoken dialogue, the transposition from bass to tenor did not create excessive difficulty.