Monday 26 June 1780

Business

Income

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
House Servants (Other) £55 Internal Paid Mr: Branson, in full for Do: [his Salary] Do [this Season]
Housekeeping £30 Internal Paid Mrs: Carne in full for her Do. [Salary] to Do: [Midsr: last] Covent Garden's payments to Elizabeth Carne, and the description of her in BD vol. 3, p. 76, show her to have been a housekeeper, even if BD does not so name her.
Prompters £4 5s Departmental Paid Do: [Mr: Wild] for Incidents, as Pr. Do: [Bill]
Stage Managers £150 Internal Paid Mr: Hull in full for his Salary this Season, as Acting Manager
Treasurers £230 Internal Paid Mr: Garton, in full for his Salary this Season
Treasurers £55 Internal Paid Mr. Cooke, in full for Do. [his Salary] Do: [this Season]
Wardrobe (Other) £100 Internal Paid Mr: Whitfield in full for his Salary to Midsr: last
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £75 Internal Paid Mrs: Mattocks for finding her own Cloaths
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £80 Internal Paid Mr: Guard Carpenter in full for Do: [his Salary] to 2d: Inst:
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £23 4d Departmental Paid Mr: Guard for Scene Men to 24th: Instant
Scene Painters £1 6s 3d Internal Paid Mr: Hodgins Painter in full for Do: [his Salary] to 31st May
Loan Repayments (to Proprietor) £20 External Paid Do: [Messrs: Colman & Fisher] One Year's Interest on £520, due April last A payment to the proprietors, George Colman the Elder and John Abraham Fisher (who had married the widow of William Powell, former proprietor).
Management £500 Internal Paid Mr. Harris in full for his trouble & Expences, in One Year's Superintendance of the Business of the Theatre to Midsummer last
House Tax 9s 5d External Paid Do: [1/2 a Year's] House Duty for Do. [ye house in Bow St: Passage] due Do. [Lady day]
House Tax £1 10s External Paid Do. [1/2 a Year's] House Duty for Do. [the House in Bow St:] due Do: [Lady day]
House Tax £17 10s External Paid Do. [1/2 a Year's] House Duty for Do: [the Theatre] due Do: [Lady day]
Land Tax £1 17s 6d External Paid Do: [1/2 a Year's] Land Tax for ye house in Bow St: Passage due Do: [Lady day]
Land Tax £52 10s External Paid 1/2 a Year's Land Tax for the Theatre, due Lady day
Land Tax £3 15s External Paid Do. [1/2 a Year's] Land Tax for the House in Bow St: due Do: [Lady day]
Leases (Ground and Buildings) £20 External Paid Messrs: Colman & Fisher for One Year's Rent, for the Appartments in their House to 29th May A payment to the proprietors, George Colman the Elder and John Abraham Fisher (who had married the widow of William Powell, former proprietor).
Paving, Cleansing and Lighting Rates £26 5s External Paid Do. [1/2 a Year's] Paving &ca: for Do. [the Theatre] due Do: [Lady day]
Paving, Cleansing and Lighting Rates £2 5s External Paid Do. [1/2 a Year's] Paving &ca: for Do. [the House in Bow St:] due Do: [Lady day]
Paving, Cleansing and Lighting Rates 18s 9d External Paid Do: [1/2 a Year's] Paving &ca. for Do. [ye house in Bow St: Passage] due Do: [Lady day]
Window Tax £1 4s 6d External Paid Do. [1/2 a Year's] Window Lights for Do: [the House in Bow St:] due Do: [Lady day]
Window Tax £6 12s 6d External Paid Do. [1/2 a Year's] Window Lights for Do: [the Theatre] due Do. [Lady day]
Window Tax 15s External Paid Do. [1/2 a Year's] Window Lights for Do: [ye house in Bow St: Passage] due Do. [Lady day]
Law £50 Internal Paid Mr: Forrest, in full for Do: [his Salary] Do: [this Season]
Play Licences £8 8s External Paid Mr: Wild for 4 Licences as Pr: Bill
Total £1,517 12s 3d