Category,Amount,"Payment Type","A/c book entry",Notes
Cleaners,"£25 4s 0d",Internal,"Paid Mr: Sarjant for Chare Women",
"Doorkeepers and Officekeepers","£21 12s 0d",Internal,"Paid Do: [Mr: Sarjant] for Do: [16 Wks Salary] for Wm: Symonds & Richard Davis to Do: [this day]",
"Employees (Other)","£8 0s 0d",Internal,"Paid Mr: Sarjant for 16 Wks Salary for Chas: Smith to this day","Covent Garden employed a performer named Charles Smith. However, given that the recipient here was being paid by the housekeeper, Charles Sarjant, perhaps it was a different Charles Smith, or perhaps, due to his age and diminishing skills, the performer had taken on ancillary backstage duties."
Housekeeping,"£10 5s 3d",Departmental,"Paid Do: [Mr: Sarjant] for Incidents",
"Carpentry and Sceneshifting","£21 7s 6d",Departmental,"Paid Mr: Emery for Scene Men, Do: [2 Weeks]",
"Scene Painters' Supplies","£3 4s 0d",Departmental,"Paid Wm: Flight for Salary &ca:, Do: [2 Weeks]","William Flight was an assistant or housekeeper to the painting room. He was regularly paid for procuring colours and for his salary, and the two payments tended to be lumped together as ""for Colours &ca"" or ""for Salary &ca"". The overall spend on colours evidently outweighed that spent on his salary; and, because his role was specific to the painting room, even the pure salary payments have here been classed as ""Scene Painters' Supplies""."