Monday 9 April 1792

Plays

Performances
The Road to Ruin, Oscar and Malvina; or, The Hall of Fingal
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£252 6d
Available Revenue
38%
Capacity
74%
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 £252 6d £248 15s 6d £0 £3 5s £0
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Oratorio rent £550 Reced the Oratorio Rent
Oratorio rent £102 8s Reced for Renters
Oratorio rent £49 11s 6d Recd for Oil & Candles
Sub Total £701 19s 6d
Total £954

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Tontines £425 External Paid Tontine last Paymt.
Benefit Payments £157 7s 6d External Paid Mr Holcroft 4 Nts. Ball
Proprietorial (Other) £40 External Paid Thos. Harris Esqr
Unknown £10 12s 6d Unknown Paid Mess Cross Brand & Grosel Perhaps "Brand and Co.", hat manufacturers operating on the Strand, listed in Holden's Triennial Directory (1799), p. 79. But "Cross" may have been John Cartwright Cross, an actor who also wrote pieces for performance at Covent Garden.
Unknown £10 Unknown Paid Mr Pollock BD vol. 12, p. 49 suggests Mr Pollock "may have been an obscure male house servant". Perhaps this was his yearly salary. However, there was also a £30 payment on 16 May 1792 to a Mrs Pollock, who may have been the performer whom BD states first performed at Covent Garden on 24 November 1792; it is therefore possible that the Pollock situation was not as BD portrays it.
Musicians (Band) £8 9s 10d Internal Music 31st. March
House Servants (Other) £8 8s Internal Paid Mr Finney 4 Weeks
Play Licences £4 4s External Paid Licenses for Orpheus & Road to Ruin
Books, Paper and Stationery £3 6s External Paid for Stationary
Properties 9s Departmental Properties Do [31st. March]
Musicians (Kettle Drums) 5s Internal Kettle Drum
Total £668 1s 10d