Tuesday 4 April 1747

Plays

Performances
The Distressed Mother, Miss in her Teens, Turkish Pirate, Laundress's Visiting Day
Event Type
Benefit, Command Performance
Revenue
£267 6d
Available Revenue
N/A
Capacity
141%
Beneficiary(ies)
Susannah Cibber
Commanded by
Frederick, Prince of Wales
Requested by
N/A
Charge
Free
Additional Charge
Unknown
Notes
By Command of Prince of Wales and Princess of Wales
Tickets deliver'd out for the 19th will be taken

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £117 15s 6d £117 15s 6d £0 £0 £0
Beneficiaries
Tickets Amount Box Pit Gallery Total
Susannah Cibber £149 5s N/A N/A N/A N/A
Total £267 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Cleaners £2 11s 4d Internal Charwomen
Dancers 5s Internal Mrs La Font 1 Day
Dancers 10s Internal Lucas Do [a weeks Sallary]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 8s Internal Cundell Do [4 days]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 8s Internal Singleton Do [4 days]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 5s 4d Internal Mrs Tubman Do [4 days]
Employees (Other) 8s Internal Osborne Do [4 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 Internal Perry Do [4 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) 8s Internal Jarvis 4 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) 6s Internal Rabbitt Do [4 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.
Housekeeping £1 Internal Page a weeks Sallary Mr Page, identified as a housekeeper in the 1740-41 account book.
Performers (Other) £102 14s 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 8s Internal Potter Do [4 days]
Treasurers £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Pritchard 4 Days
Treasurers 13s 4d Internal White Do [4 Days]
Dressers £3 8s Internal Women dressers Do [4 days]
Tailoring 16s Internal Hamersly Do [4 Days]
Scene Painters £21 Internal Mr Servandoni on acct.
Management £21 Internal Mr Rich
Miscellaneous £34 11s 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 Susannah Maria Cibber's free benefit night. The theatre recorded an expense to cover what would normally have been the benefit charge, "Mrs. Cibber by the Charge of this Night", £60; used £34 11s of that money to pay the nightly charge; then returned the remaining £25 9s to its treasury as a receipt, "Ballance of £60 charg'd paid as pr Contra". This process has been simplified here into a single expense.
Total £193 6s 8d