Tuesday 29 November 1746

Plays

Performances
The Fair Penitent
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£155 1s 6d
Available Revenue
66%
Capacity
82%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £155 1s 6d £155 1s 6d £0 £0 £0
Total £155 1s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Cleaners £3 14s Internal Chairwomen Do [6 days]
Dancers 10s Internal Lucas Do [a Week's Sallary]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 12s Internal Cundell Do [6 days]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 10s Internal Carny 6 days
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 8s Internal Tubman Do [6 days]
Employees (Other) 12s Internal Osborne Do [6 days] Perhaps the dancer of that name, described in BD vol. 11, p. 120. This Osborne 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.
House Servants (Other) £1 10s Internal Perry Do [6 days] Perry 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. Thus Perry was probably, but not certainly, a house servant.
House Servants (Other) 12s Internal Jarvis Do. [6 days] BD vol. 8, p. 139 suggests Jarvis was a housekeeper and pit officekeeper, and this may have been his salary in only one of those capacities.
House Servants (Other) 9s Internal Rabbitt Do [6 days] Rabbitt 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. Thus Rabbitt was probably, but not certainly, a house servant.
House Servants (Other) 3s Internal Bethune 2 days BD vol. 2, p. 72 designates the recipient as "house servant?", but speculates he may have been Mr Bethun the dancer, who had been active in the 1730s. Bethune 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. Thus Bethune was probably, but not certainly, a house servant.
Housekeeping £1 Internal Page a Week's Sallary Mr Page, identified as a housekeeper in the 1740-41 account book.
Performers (Other) £209 11s Internal [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 1746-1747) 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 12s Internal Potter Do [6 days]
Treasurers £2 Internal Mr. Pritchard 6 days
Treasurers £1 Internal White Do [6 days]
Dressers £5 2s Internal Women Dressers 6 days
Tailoring £1 4s Internal Hamersly Do [6 days]
Tailoring £5 5s Departmental Mr. Meares (Taylor) on acct.
Management £31 10s Internal Mr. Rich
Miscellaneous £34 4s 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 from this night's performance receipts or benefit charge, as appropriate.
Unknown £28 Unknown Mr Lane as pr. his Draft pd. to Mr. Gom The purpose of this payment is unclear. Mr Lane was perhaps Robert Lane, tailor, who later married one of John Rich's daughters, Charlotte; but CG was also paying a Mr Lane for "Rent for Cowley" in the 1740s. Stephen Gom of Uxbridge was a carpenter, who often seems to have worked at Rich's house, Cowley Grove. For more on the Gom family, and suggestions as to their working relationship with CG, see Terry Jenkins, John Rich: The Man Who Built Covent Garden Theatre (2016), pp. 118-19.
Total £328 8s