Monday 25 March 1776

Plays

Event Type
Benefit
Revenue
£160 10s
Available Revenue
N/A
Capacity
N/A

Beneficiary(ies)
Joseph Vernon
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Charge
£66
Additional Charge
Unknown

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £160 10s £160 10s £0 £0 £0
Beneficiaries
Tickets Amount Box Pit Gallery Total
Joseph Vernon £0 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Rent £6 Mrs Johnston'srent 1 year t o Lady day
Sub Total £6
Total £166 10s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Housekeeping £8 18s 10d Departmental Housekeeper's bill Drury Lane normally in 1775-81, and sometimes in 1781-1802, included its properties bills (and perhaps some painters’ bills) in its housekeepers' bills, without distinguishing the amount paid on each. The relevant payments have been categorised “Housekeeping”, because the properties and painters evidently fell in the housekeepers’ remit in such cases, in both conceptual and practical terms. But note that properties and scene painters (if such they were) belong rather in “Properties, Scenes and Machines”.
Supernumeraries £2 12s Internal Supernumrs
Clothing Material (Haberdashery) £4 10s 6d External Vaughan Haberdr.
Clothing Material (Linen) £25 6s 6d External Ray Linen Draper
Laundry and Dyeing £9 8s 6d External Carter. Scowerer
Candles (Spermaceti) £5 External Evans for Sper Cetti Candles
Glass £2 3s External Norfolk Glazier
Oil £54 15s 6d External Barrow & Co. Oil Merchts
Turnery £5 18s 6d External Pryer Turner
Watch Rate £18 15s External Watch Rate, half a Year
Books, Paper and Stationery £7 2s 6d External Mr Powney Stationer
Renters' Shares £8 External To Rent
Tinworkers £2 6d External Cubit, Tin Man
Total £154 11s 4d