Saturday 14 March 1761

Plays

Performances
The Jovial Crew; or, The Merry Beggars, Love a la mode
Event Type
Benefit
Revenue
£306 17s 6d
Available Revenue
N/A
Capacity
139%
Beneficiary(ies)
John Beard
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Charge
£63
Additional Charge
Unknown
Notes
Pit and Boxes to be laid together
Several of Mr Beards Friends being pre-engag'd for Monday 23 March, advertised for his Benefit, and Mr Rich having kindly given him Saturday the 14th he humbly hopes the shortness of the Time not permitting him to wait on his Friends as usual those Ladies and Gentlemen who desire to favour him with their presence will be pleased to send for their tickets and places to his House, next Old Slaughters Coffee House in St Martins Lane

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £100 2s 6d £100 2s 6d £0 £0 £0
Beneficiaries
Tickets Amount Box Pit Gallery Total
John Beard £206 15s 827 0 0 827
Total £306 17s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £25 14s 7d Internal Omitted the 12th Inst. Paid Mr. Macklin one 5th part of £128. 13. being the surplus after £63. Allow'd for the Charge as [per] Agreement
Employees (Other) 10s Internal Austin 4 days a[.] 2. 6. 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) £17 2s Internal Servants Ditto [sallerys] for 4 days Payroll broken down on the facing page under the heading, "4 days sallery".
Housekeeping £1 5s 2d Departmental Mr. Sarjant a Bill of Incidents
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) £175 15s 4d Internal Performers sallerys for 4 days Payroll broken down on the facing page under the heading, "4 days sallery".
Musicians (Band) £4 19s 4d Internal Musick
Hair, Beards and Wigs 5s 4d Internal Barbers
Tailoring 9s 7d Departmental Mr. Meares Tayler a Bill
Wardrobe (Other) 17s Departmental Wardrobe Bill
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £6 3s Departmental Thorne for the Scenemen
Properties 3s 6d Departmental Property Bill
Scene Painters £2 Internal Mr. Dall a weeks sallery
Bill Distribution £2 15s Internal Billsetters as [per] Bill
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.
Total £259 10s 1d