Friday 9 May 1800

Plays

Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£201 7s 6d
Available Revenue
55%
Capacity
44%

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 £201 7s 6d £196 19s 6d £0 £4 8s £0
Total £201 7s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Taxes (Other) £100 1s External Paid half a Years Paving, Rectors, Church & Watch rate to Lady day last
Authorial Payments (Other) £100 External Paid Mr: Morton on Acct Presumed to be Thomas Morton, the playwright who wrote often for CG in the 1790s and early 1800s, and seems to have been paid regular round sums on that account. CG in the 1790s sometimes paid George Morton, "Coach-maker, 52, Long Acre", listed in London Directory (1795), p. 100, both in that capacity and as a renter, but the sums were smaller and less round, and he seems to have gone out of business around 1796.
Miscellaneous £50 External Paid Thos Lewis Esqr for Disbursements for the Theatre
Benefit Payments £48 16s 6d Internal Paid Mr Knight benefit ballance
Musicians (Band) £9 9s 4d Internal Music 8 Inst
Royal Attendants £3 19s 6d External Their Majesties Servants
Carving and Gilding £3 8s External Paid Mr Lewis (Carver)
Royal Attendants £2 2s External Paid the Yeomen of the Guard
Total £317 16s 4d