Tuesday 25 April 1747

Plays

Performances
The Spanish Friar; or, The Double Discovery, Orpheus and Euridyce: With the Metamorphoses of Harlequin
Event Type
Benefit
Revenue
£104 6s
Available Revenue
N/A
Capacity
55%
Beneficiary(ies)
Esther Young
Mrs Johnson
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Charge
Unknown
Additional Charge
Unknown
Notes
Benefit: Miss Young and Widow Johnson

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £34 9s £34 9s £0 £0 £0
Beneficiaries
Tickets Amount Box Pit Gallery Total
Esther Young £32 9s 37 116 58 211
Mrs Johnson £37 8s 52 126 55 233
Total £104 6s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Cleaners £3 17s Internal Charwomen Do. [6 days]
Dancers 15s Internal Mr. Joseph Granier 3 days
Dancers 6s 8d Internal Mr. Desse 1 Day
Dancers 10s Internal Lucas a weeks Sallary
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 12s Internal Cundell Do. [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.
Performers (Other) £124 17s 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 £1 Internal White Do. [6 days]
Treasurers £2 Internal Mr. Pritchard 6 days
Dressers £5 2s Internal Women Dressers Do. [6 days]
Tailoring £1 4s Internal Hamersly Do [6 days]
Upkeep and Refurbishments (Other) £4 2s 1d Departmental Mr. Price a Carpenters Bill for work down at Lincoln's [?] Fields BD vol. 12, p. 155 does not give much information on Mr Price. But expense records 1746-47 suggest that he oversaw carpentry, painting, and general building work that season, partly or exclusively at Lincoln's Inn Fields. As such, these payments probably did not relate to scenes or machines, hence their categorisation here.
Management £31 10s Internal Mr. Rich
Miscellaneous £34 9s 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 night's entire door receipts, £34 9s, were diverted to cover the nightly charge.
Miscellaneous £3 1s 9d Departmental Advanc'd to Pay the Deficiency of the Nightly Charge The door receipts of this night did not suffice to pay the nightly charge, the settlement of which was not recorded in this season's surviving account book.
Total £217 9s 6d