Saturday 17 January 1761

Plays

Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£114 4s 6d
Available Revenue
N/A
Capacity
52%

Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A

Notes
The Merchant of Venice, with Love a la Mode, advertis'd to be perform'd this night is deferr'd till further notice on account of the Indisposition of Macklin and Miss Macklin
Income from Boxes £21 12s

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £114 4s 6d £114 4s 6d £0 £0 £0
Total £114 4s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) 15s Internal Austin 6 days Austin's daily rate was 2s when he only painted, 2s 6d when he also snuffed candles, hence the categorisation as "Employees (Other)".
House Servants (Other) £25 1s Internal Servants Ditto [sallery] for Ditto [6 days] Payroll broken down on the facing page under the heading, "6 days sallery".
Lamplighters £1 12s 3d Internal Lamps BD vol. 8, p. 408 states that the last mention of Mr Kemp, lampman, was on 28 May 1760, but he was also named thrice in the 1760-61 expenditure records for lamplighting, and the regular £1 12s 3d payments for "Lamps" in this and the following season probably went to him too.
Performers (Other) £254 13s Internal Performers sallery for 6 days Payroll broken down on the facing page under the heading, "6 days sallery".
Security 14s Internal Gaurds
Singers 5s Internal Dibdin
Musicians (Band) £4 17s 8d Internal Musick
Musicians (Other) 10s 6d Internal Clarinet
Hair, Beards and Wigs 5s 4d Internal Barbers
Tailoring £1 17s 7d Departmental Meares Tayler a Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £1 5s Departmental Wardrobe Bill
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £10 4s Departmental Thorne for the Scenemen
Properties 11s Departmental Property Bill
Scene Painters £2 Internal Mr. Dall a Weeks sallery
Bill Distribution £3 9s Internal Billsetters
Newspaper Advertisements 5s External 1 Advertisement Presumed to be newspaper advertising.
Printing £1 7s External 1 Days Bills
Management £5 5s Internal Mr. J. Rich
Management £1 Internal Mr. C. Rich
Miscellaneous £12 1s External Rents &ca.
Musicians (French Horns) 10s Internal two French Horns
Total £328 8s 4d