Saturday 2 May 1761

Plays

Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£46 4s
Available Revenue
N/A
Capacity
21%

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

Notes
Income from Boxes £10 12s 6d i.e., only about 42 persons in the boxes this night

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £46 4s £46 4s £0 £0 £0
Total £46 4s

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)".
Employees (Other) 2s 6d Internal Osborne Perhaps the dancer of that name, described in BD vol. 11, p. 120.
House Servants (Other) £25 7s Internal Servants Ditto [sallerys] for 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) £256 3s Internal Performers sallerys for 6 days Payroll broken down on the facing page under the heading, "6 days sallery".
Musicians (Band) £4 19s 4d Internal Musick
Hair, Beards and Wigs 5s 4d Internal Barbers
Wardrobe (Other) £1 11s 6d Departmental Wardrobe Bill
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £8 17s Departmental Thorne for the Scenemen
Fireworks 3s External Day
Properties 8s Departmental Property Bill
Scene Painters £2 Internal Mr Dall a Weeks sallery
Bill Distribution £3 9s Internal Billstickers 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 &c
Musicians (French Horns) 5s Internal French Horn
Total £325 15s 11d