Tuesday 31 March 1750

Plays

Performances
The Provokd Wife, Phebe; or, The Beggar’s Wedding, Dutch Dance, Grand Scotch Ballet, Louvre, Minuet
Event Type
Benefit
Revenue
£168 17s
Available Revenue
48%
Capacity
89%
Beneficiary(ies)
Mr Cooke
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Charge
£60
Additional Charge
Unknown
Notes
Tickets of Cooke at Mr Clark's, an Upholsterer in James St., Covent Garden and at the Stage Door

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £34 10s £34 10s £0 £0 £0
Beneficiaries
Tickets Amount Box Pit Gallery Total
Mr Cooke £134 7s N/A N/A N/A N/A
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Benefit deficiencies £11 16s Reced of Mr Lowe for his Deficiency Tuesday last
Benefit deficiencies £11 16s Reced of Mr Lowe for his Deficiency Tuesday last
Sub Total £23 12s
Total £192 9s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Cleaners £2 11s 4d Internal Charwomen
Dancers 10s Internal Lucas Do. [a Weeks Sallary]
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 Wilford Do [4 days]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 6s 8d Internal Ross Do [4 days]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 6s 8d Internal Evans S 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 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) 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) 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) 8s Internal Driscol Do. [4 days]
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 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 Weeks Sallary Mr Page, identified as a housekeeper in the 1740-41 account book.
Performers (Other) £116 16s 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.
Treasurers 13s 4d Internal White Do. [4 days]
Clothing Purchase (Other) £1 4s External Mr. Jardin for 2 Tambours & 2 pr. Pumps "Pumps" were evidently shoes, so "Tambours" has been interpreted as the circular frames used in clothing, such as in the payment of 12 November 1772 for "a Tambour Waistct:" and other items of clothing. However, it should be noted that OED does not observe this meaning of the word until 1780, whereas drums of this name, and tambourines, were of hoarier vintage.
Dressers £2 15s 4d Internal Women Dressers
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £1 11s 6d Departmental Mr. Price Carpenter a Bill
Proprietorial (Other) £1 1s External Mr J Rich on acct.
Miscellaneous £41 13s 8d Departmental By the Nightly Charge
Total £174 18s 6d