Category,Amount,"Payment Type","A/c book entry",Notes "Musicians (Band)","£9 1s 2d",Internal,"Music 4th. Ins", "Musicians (Kettle Drums)"," 5s 0d",Internal,"Kettle Drum", "Clothing Material (Lace)","£258 18s 6d",External,"Paid Mr. Wilby / Copper Lace Man / on Acco", Properties," 13s 6d",Departmental,"Properties Do [4th. Ins]", Construction,"£30 0s 0d",External,"Paid Messrs. Hodson & Gann Damages done to their House in the rebuilding the Theatre", "Food and Drink","£35 9s 0d",External,"Paid Thos. Harris Esqr. [per] Messrs. Hodson & Gann for Wine &c", "Food and Drink","£15 0s 0d",External,"Paid Messrs. Lowe & Rigg for Spirits of Wine", "Authorial Payments (Other)","£100 0s 0d",External,"Paid Mr. O'Keeffe on Acco","From the early 1780s onwards, Covent Garden regularly commissioned and/or accepted plays from O'Keeffe, seemingly on quasi-retainer. Presumably this payment was part of those arrangements."