Wednesday 30 June 1784

Business

Income

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Management £500 Internal Paid Mr: Harris for his Trouble & Expences in One Year's Superintendance of the Business of the Theatre due Midsummer last
Authorial Payments (Other) £485 External Paid Mrs: Cowley for her Comedy of More ways than One, as Pr: Arbritation
Printing £433 9s External Paid Mr: Cooper Printer, as Pr: Bills
Copyright and Publication Rights £315 External Paid Mr: Keeffe for the Copyright &ca. of the Poor Soldier
Authorial Payments (Other) £220 10s External Paid Mr: Mc:Nally as Pr: Bills
Candles (Wax) £175 19s External Paid Mr: Barrett Wax Chandler, as Pr: Do: [Bills]
Unknown £105 Unknown Paid Mr: Murphy as Pr: Bill Perhaps the same Mr Murphy paid on several other occasions across the 1780s-90s, who may have been Mr Murphy the piper active in the late 1790s (BD vol. 10, p. 391), or Arthur Murphy the playwright (though there is no evident reason why Covent Garden would have paid him after the 1770s).
Composers £100 External Paid Mr: Shield for Composing Rosina &ca.
Pantomime Design £100 External Paid Do: [Mr: Keeffe] for the Pantomime of Friar Bacon From the early 1780s onwards, Covent Garden regularly commissioned and/or accepted plays from O'Keeffe, seemingly on quasi-retainer. Presumably this payment was part of those arrangements.
Properties £52 18s Departmental Paid Mr: Besford for Incidents, as Pr: Do: [Bills]
Treasurers £35 13s 6d Departmental Paid Mr: Garton for Contingencies, as Pr: Bill
Properties £20 14s External Paid Mr: Keegan for an Air Balloon, as Pr: Do: [Bill]
Stone £12 1s External Paid Mr: Stephens Mason, as Pr: Do: [Bill]
Clothing Material (Lace) £8 16s External Paid Mr. Gilles Worsted Laceman, as Pr: Do: [Bills]
Clothing Material (Fur) £6 External Paid Mrs: Debosh Furrier, as Pr: Do: [Bill]
Weaponry £4 12s External Paid Mr: Rowson Gunsmith, as Pr: Do: [Bills]
Lighting (Other) £4 External Paid Mr: Casstevens for a pair of Candlesticks, as Pr: Do: [Bill]
Scene Painters' Supplies £3 16s External Paid Mr: Newman for painting Brushes, as Pr: Do. [Bills]
Books, Paper and Stationery £2 17s 6d External Paid Mrs: Chassereau Stationer Stationer, as Pr: Do: [Bills]
Clothing Material (Other) £2 2s External Paid Mr: Perkins for Cane, as Pr: Do: [Bills]
Miscellaneous £2 5s External Paid Mr: John Ledger for Incidents, as Pr: Do: [Bill]
Books, Paper and Stationery £1 10s External Paid Mr: Bell Bookseller, as pr Do: [Bills]
Clocks and Watches £1 13s External Paid Mr: Wilson Watchmaker, as Pr: Do: [Bills]
Total £2,593 16s