Tuesday 3 March 1750

Plays

Performances
Romeo and Juliet, The Fair
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£165 14s 6d
Available Revenue
49%
Capacity
87%
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 £165 14s 6d £165 14s 6d £0 £0 £0
Total £165 14s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Cleaners £2 11s 4d Internal Charwomen Do [4 Days]
Dancers 10s Internal Lucas Do. [a Week's Sallary]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 6s 8d Internal Ross Do. [4 Days]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 5s 4d Internal Tubman Do. [4 Days]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 6s Internal Jones Do [4 Days]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 6s 8d Internal Barr Do. [4 Days]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 6s 8d Internal Evans S Do. [4 Days]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 6s 8d Internal Wilford Do. [4 Days]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 8s Internal Constable 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) 6s 8d Internal Browse Do. [4 Days] Browse 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 Browse was probably, but not certainly, a house servant.
House Servants (Other) 6s 8d Internal Smith Do. [4 Days] Smith 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 Smith was probably, but not certainly, a house servant.
House Servants (Other) 8s Internal Driscol Do. [4 Days]
House Servants (Other) 6s 8d Internal Bayley Do. [4 Days] Bayley 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 Bayley was probably, but not certainly, a house servant.
House Servants (Other) 8s Internal Jarvis Do. [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) £1 Internal Mr Perry 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.
Housekeeping £1 Internal Page a Week's Sallary Mr Page, identified as a housekeeper in the 1740-41 account book.
Performers (Other) £139 11s 4d 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 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.
Performers (Other) £26 5s Internal Caratha the Turk & Co. Do. [a Week's Sallary]
Treasurers 13s 4d Internal White Do. [4 Days]
Dressers £2 15s 4d Internal Women Dressers Do [4 Days]
Tailoring £1 2s 2d Departmental Meares Taylor a Bill
Scene Painters £3 11d Internal Herring Painter Do. [a Bill]
Construction £20 External Mr Gom Carpenter in full Presumed to be for construction work at John Rich's house, Cowley Grove, rather than for theatre-related carpentry. 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.
Proprietorial (Other) £12 12s External Mr J Rich Do. [on acct.]
Miscellaneous £45 5s 6d Departmental By the Nightly Charge
Unknown £12 Unknown Mr. Hoole on acct. BD vol. 7, p. 403, observing a Mr Hool active at CG in 1741 only, suggests him to have been "the head of a crew of stage carpenters or stagehands." The recipient here was paid much more money in 1749-50 than the recipient in 1740-41, "his men" were not mentioned this season, and his name was spelled differently, so perhaps it was a different person.
Total £272 16s 11d