| Miscellaneous |
£34 14s 8d |
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. This was Lacy Ryan's free benefit night. The theatre recorded an expense to cover what would normally have been the benefit charge, "Mr. Ryan on acct by the Charge of this Night", £60; used £34 14s 8d of that money to pay the nightly charge; then returned the remaining £25 5s 4d to its treasury as a receipt, "Ballance of £60 charge Pd. as pr Contra". This process has been simplified here into a single expense. |