Tuesday 14 February 1741

Plays

Performances
The Recruiting Officer, Tambourine, The Savoyards, Louvre, Minuet
Event Type
Benefit, Command Performance
Revenue
£240 1s
Available Revenue
N/A
Capacity
126%
Beneficiary(ies)
Barbarina Campanini
Commanded by
King George II
Requested by
N/A
Charge
Unknown
Additional Charge
Unknown
Notes
By his Majesty's Command
The Stage will be formed into Boxes

Cross: [est. £270].

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £174 6s £174 6s £0 £0 £0
Beneficiaries
Tickets Amount Box Pit Gallery Total
Barbarina Campanini £65 15s N/A N/A N/A N/A
Total £240 1s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £1 5s Internal Mr. Ryan
Actors £1 10s Internal Mr. Delane
Actors £1 10s Internal Mrs. Horton
Actors £1 Internal Mr. Cibber All daily £1 payments to Cibber from 26 December 1740 until 20 April 1741 (after which the account book abruptly ends) lack the tick sign and marginal "pd" note written besides almost all other payments this season. Perhaps his payment arrangements changed on 26 December.
Actors 6s 8d Internal Mr. Bridgwater
Actors £20 Internal Mr. Rosco by a Note of hand Endors'd by him and paid to mess: mosely & Foster Here interpreted as James Rosco's acting salary, paid as a promissory note that he endorsed, then deposited with or used to pay Messieurs Mosely and Foster, who cashed it with CG.
Dancers £1 1s Internal Mons: Janno
Dancers £5 5s Internal Mons: michell BD vol. 10, pp. 211-12 suggests that payments to Monsieur (François) Michel in 1740-41 were for his children's dancing (as indicated in a payment record of 19 September 1740).
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 2s 6d Internal Corbett
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 6s 8d Internal Carny Days 4 Days The scribe seems to have initially written "Hanmore Do", then corrected "Do" to "Days 4", then decided that the same word should nonetheless be written after "4".
Employees (Other) 10s Internal Mr. Comelati for 1 Day in Orpheus & 3 besides BD vol. 3, p. 433 suggests that Comelati was a singer, on the basis that he was often paid for performing in Orpheus and Eurydice at 5s per performance, plus for performances "besides". But there are multiple other capacities in which he could have performed in Orpheus, and in fact the "besides" payments (and other payments to him unrelated to Orpheus) were paid at a lower rate, and there is no evidence that they related to any kind of performance. Moreover, Comelati was not included in the season's performers' payroll; but it appears that inclusion there may have been partly or wholly determined by salary level, rather than by the performer/non-performer distinction as such.
Housekeeping £1 Internal Mr. Page Housekepeer a Weeks Sallary
Performers (Other) £119 19s Internal 4 Days [performers' payroll entries here aggregated] This payroll seems to have included a few people who were not performers, but most of them were. Moreover, the payment record of 10 May 1750 (in the 1749-50 account book, which followed the same format as 1740-1741) shows that it was conceived as the performers' list; and even the non-performers were perhaps more related to performance than most house servants were, such as John Stede the prompter.
Security 2s Internal Constable
Stage Managers £1 Internal Do. [Mr. Ryan] a Week's managemt.
Treasurers 13s 4d Internal Jas. White 4 Days
Management 16s 8d Internal Mr. C. Rich
Charity 6s 8d External Mrs. Redfern for Subsistance
Messengers and Porters 10s Internal Hanmore Do. [a Weeks Sallary]
Miscellaneous £75 11s 4d Departmental [nightly charge] This season's account book does not record or itemise the nightly charges, but it is evident that they were diverted from the nightly receipts. The sums are here calculated by deducting the money received into the treasury via Mr Wood from this night's performance receipts or benefit charge, as appropriate. This night was a benefit night. Presumably the money diverted went to the beneficiary and the standard nightly charge.
Unknown £6 6s Unknown Mr. Grainger on acct. A Mr Grainger was paid bills or "on acct." regularly in 1740-41. Perhaps he was the Lincoln's Inn Fields tailor, noted by BD vol. 6, pp. 300-01 as fl. 1724-29.
Total £239 1s 10d