| Authorial Payments (Other) |
£150 |
External |
Mr. Hurlstone in full for Just in Time |
What happened between Covent Garden and Thomas Hurlstone in the 1790s is unclear. The theatre paid "Mr Hu(r)lston(e)" £300 for no specified reason on three separate occasions in late 1792, and, each time, received £300 back from him after only a week or two. It then paid him £150 "in full for Just in Time" (thus identifying him as the playwright, Thomas) on 14 December 1792, but never received this or any other money back from him thereafter. Instead, it paid "Mr: Hurlstone Cash Lent", £80, on 12 March 1793; and "Discount for Mr: Hurlstones Bill", £2 1s 3d, on 31 August 1783. He was then paid £48 8s 6d "in full for Crotchet Lodge" on 19 May 1795 and, finally, was paid in relation to Thomas Harris on 1 April 1797; no payments clearly correspond to Hurlstone's other known piece, To Arms; or, The British Recruit, which debuted in May 1793. Thus it seems that Hurlstone's remuneration as an author was tied up with more complex financial arrangements, in which Hurlstone loaned to and/or received advances from the theatre and Harris. |