Thursday 4 January 1787

Plays

Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£229 2s 6d
Available Revenue
44%
Capacity
67%

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 £229 2s 6d £225 9s £0 £3 13s 6d £0
Total £229 2s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Annuities £31 10s External Pd. Hugh Dive Esqr. 1/2 [?] yrs Anny to Xmas If this does indeed read "1/2", it was probably a scribal error, since Dive was normally paid £31 10s on his annuities per quarter. Perhaps it was intended to read "1/q" or "1/4".
Unknown £25 14s Unknown Pd. Mrs. Longman Thomas Longman Esquire seems to have loaned money to Thomas Harris/Covent Garden, and/or disbursed money on the theatre's behalf; but various Longmans were involved in selling stationery, sheet music, and even musical instruments to Covent Garden, and seem to have printed playbooks for the theatre and/or bought the copyright of plays from the theatre in order to print and sell those plays for their own (the Longmans') profit. It is therefore difficult to categorise this and many other of the payments involving Thomas Longman Esquire in particular and the Longmans in general.
Scene Painters £22 1s Internal Paid Mr Blackmore Painter
Musicians (Band) £8 4s 8d Internal Music the 3d. Inst
Properties 11s 6d Departmental Properties Do [the 3d. Inst]
Musicians (Kettle Drums) 5s Internal Kettle Drum
Total £88 6s 2d