Category,Amount,"Payment Type","A/c book entry",Notes
Cleaners,"£63 3s 0d",Internal,"Paid Mr: Leake for Chare Women &ca: to Do: [this day]","Mr Leake does not seem to be noticed in BD, either as Leak(e) or Leek(e). He was paid several times over the 1776-77 season, and the payments suggest him to have been a housekeeper. There is a small chance that he was the Covent Garden proprietor, James Leake, who otherwise does not seem to have been much active in the theatre's affairs."
"House Servants (Other)","£2 2s 0d",Internal,"Paid Mr: Francis 2 Weeks Salary to Do: [this day]",
Housekeeping,"£11 5s 11d",Departmental,"Paid Do: [Mr: Leake] for Incidents, as Pr: Bill","Mr Leake does not seem to be noticed in BD, either as Leak(e) or Leek(e). He was paid several times over the 1776-77 season, and the payments suggest him to have been a housekeeper. There is a small chance that he was the Covent Garden proprietor, James Leake, who otherwise does not seem to have been much active in the theatre's affairs."
"Carpentry and Sceneshifting","£29 1s 0d",Departmental,"Paid Mr: Mountford for Scene Men, 2 Weeks to this day",
"Scene Painters' Supplies","£11 8s 5d",Departmental,"Paid Wm: Flight for Salary &ca: Do: [2 Weeks] to Do: [this day]","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""."