Monday 24 April 1769

Plays

Event Type
Benefit
Revenue
£183 15s 6d
Available Revenue
N/A
Capacity
77%

Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Charge
£63
Additional Charge
£4 7s

Notes
Benefit: Younger
Tickets deliver'd for Macbeth by Branson and Miss Helme will be taken
Mr Younger being oblig'd by Mr Powell's illness to change his play of Macbeth to the above tragedy humbly hopes for the Indulgence of his Friends and the Public in general
Supplementary charge: includes candles, side drum, bagpipe, chorus singer, wardrobe

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £85 12s 6d £85 12s 6d £0 £0 £0
Beneficiaries
Tickets Amount Box Pit Gallery Total
Joseph Younger £48 9s 97 110 77 284
Mr Branson £33 29 99 109 237
Susanna Helme £16 14s 1 63 70 134
Total £183 15s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Singers £1 5s Internal Chorus Singers
Musicians (Bagpipes) 5s Internal Bagg Pipes
Musicians (Band) £7 7s 8d Internal Music
Musicians (Side Drums) 2s Internal Side Drum
Clothing Material (Decorations) £13 16s Unknown Paid Mr Scott for feathers as Pr: Do: [Bill] Scott was listed as a "Feather Man" in the company list at the start of the 1760-61 season's account book, apparently paid a salary to procure and/or maintain feathers at that time, but it is unclear whether the bills paid him for earlier and later seasons also represented payments to an employee, or whether he was being reimbursed for feathers bought externally, or whether he himself worked externally in some or all of those seasons (as BD vol. 13, p. 239 suggests for the 1766-67 season).
Laundry and Dyeing £5 17s External Paid Mr: Carpue Silk Dyer, as Pr: Do: [Bill]
Wardrobe (Other) £3 1s Departmental Wardrobe
Properties 6s 9d Departmental Propertys
Oil £62 External Paid Messrs: Buxton & Co: Oyl Merchants as Pr Do: [Bill]
Animals 9s 6d External Paid Messrs: Clay & Co: Sadlers, as Pr: Do: [Bill]
Renters' Shares £10 External Paid Mr: Garton the Renters Money
Total £104 9s 11d