Friday 1 May 1795

Plays

Performances
The Bank Note; or, Lessons for the Ladies, The Sailor's Prize; or, May Day Wedding, Three Weeks After Marriage, Garland Dance, The Irishman's Peep at the Continent, Admiral Benbow, The Battle Song, Fat Dolly The Cook, Let Us Love and Let Us Drink, Now landed from the Ocean, Old Towler, Master Teddy Shemus O'Shaughnessey O'Finnigen Delany's History of Himself, When tis Night and the Mid-Watch is come
Event Type
Benefit
Revenue
£434 19s 6d
Available Revenue
66%
Capacity
95%
Beneficiary(ies)
John Henry Johnstone
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Charge
Unknown
Additional Charge
Unknown
Notes
1st piece: based on The Artful Husband by William Taverner
Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald; epilogue by Robert Houlton
The Music part new and part compiled by Shield
Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19 Piazza Covent Garden

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £176 1s 6d £168 1s £0 £8 6d £0
Beneficiaries
Tickets Amount Box Pit Gallery Total
John Henry Johnstone £258 18s 732 196 140 1068
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Benefit deficiencies £7 6s Recd of Mr Mattocks Benefit Deficiency
Sub Total £7 6s
Total £442 5s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Instrument Purchases and Repairs £21 External Paid Mr. Jones for tuneing Harpsichord last Season
Instrument Purchases and Repairs £2 4s External Paid Mr. Morne for two Drums
Musicians (Band) £8 17s 4d Internal Music 30th. Ins
Musicians (Kettle Drums) 5s Internal Kettle Drum
Clothing Material (Lace) £152 19s External Paid Mr. Wilby / Copper Laceman / in full for last Season
Properties 7s Departmental Properties Do [30th. Ins]
Turnery £28 2s External Paid Mr. Leader / Turner / in full last Season
Books, Paper and Stationery £2 2s External Paid Mr. Crompton for Varnishd Paper
Unknown £136 10s Unknown Paid Mrs. Boyce in full Perhaps the dancer Mrs Boyce, perhaps on account of her husband, the dancer and pantomime designer who had died in October 1794.
Annuities £10 10s External Paid Mrs. Wickstead 1/2 Years Anny. due Lady day last
Annuities £10 10s External Paid Miss Wickstead Do [/1/2 Years Anny. due Lady day last]
Total £373 6s 4d