Saturday 26 September 1778

Plays

Performances
As You Like It, Comus (1772), The Cowkeeper
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£148 2s 6d
Available Revenue
100%
Capacity
53%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £148 2s 6d £111 6s £36 12s 4s 6d £0
Total £148 2s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £2 12s 6d Internal Mr. Smith 1 Night extra playing at C:G: Assumed to be William Smith, the actor, but it may have been a different Smith with a different occupation.
Employees (Other) £365 1s 8d Internal By 4 Days Salary at 91. 5. 5
Employees (Other) £14 1s 4d Internal Certainties of Last Week
Employees (Other) £24 17s Internal Certainties
Lamplighters £4 10s Internal Lampmen
Singers £5 10s Internal Chorus
Supernumeraries £5 5s Internal Sups.
Music Copyists 9s Internal Music Bill
Musicians (Kettle Drums) £1 Internal K: D:
Mantuamaking £1 1s 8d Departmental Mants.
Tailoring £17 18s 4d Departmental Taylor's
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £7 11s 6d Internal 7 Const. Candn. & 69 Extra John Powel explains this recurrent DL payment in Tit for Tat (Houghton THE GEN TS 1574.316), p. 34, referring specifically to the 1747-49 seasons: "Four constant Supernumerary Scene-men to assist the Scene-men belonging to the House, and a Candle-Man, that see's all the Candles put out after the Play is over, at One Shilling each ... There are sometimes extraordinary Supernumerary Scene-men made use of in Plays to help at the Traps &c. such as Richard 3rd. Mackbeth, the Tempest &c. which have a Shilling each". Because the candleman was only a small part of the bundle, and was apparently considered to be close enough to the scenemen to be grouped with them, these payments have been categorised as "Carpentry and Sceneshifting".
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £9 19s 5d Departmental Carps. Bill
Bill Distribution £4 19s Internal Billstickers
Printing £19 8s External Printer 2 Bills
Funds and Trusts £28 External Rent &ca Fund at £7 pr: D. Similar entries were written on each of the next several Saturdays, but never with any money ascribed, and the final mention came on 17 October 1778.
Loan Repayments (as Debtor) £66 13s 4d External D: G: Intst. & Balce. returned "returned" written in smaller letters, perhaps as a later note denoting that the treasury later took this money back. Whatever that word means here, the sum is included in the account book's running total of expenditure.
Renters' Shares £8 External Renters
Total £586 17s 9d