Thursday 17 March 1746

Plays

Event Type
Benefit
Revenue
£50
Available Revenue
N/A
Capacity
N/A

Beneficiary(ies)
Margaret Woffington
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Charge
£50
Additional Charge
Unknown

Notes
Mainpiece written Not acted in 10 years
Servants admitted to keep places on stage
Charge of £50 appears to be refunded on 20 March

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £50 £50 £0 £0 £0
Beneficiaries
Tickets Amount Box Pit Gallery Total
Margaret Woffington £0 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Total £50

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £1 3s 4d Internal To Mr. Delane for one days arrears due last Season
Actors £60 Internal To Mr. Macklin on acct. Milhous and Hume, in 'A Drury Lane Account Book for 1745-46', p. 103 note, "In essence, management returned the £60 house charges from Macklin's benefit on 13 March as part payment on his arrears." Thus the payment has been categorised as his acting salary, rather than as benefit earnings.
Security 14s Internal To the Soldiers
Musicians (Kettle Drums) 5s Internal To the kettle drum
Properties 8s 2d Departmental To Properties Pd Hussy
Properties 9d Departmental To Properties
Candles (Tallow) £11 2s 6d External To the Tallow Chandler
Theatrical Patents £63 External To Mr. Colthorp on acct. Between at least the 1745-46 and 1773-74 seasons, DL paid Mr Calthorpe £315 per year on the patent in some fashion. John Powel, in Tit for Tat (Houghton THE GEN TS 1574.316), p. 27 describes this payment as "A Perquisite payable out of the P[aten]t for the Year £315." It is possible he also describes it more fully on pp. 31-32, when he explains that the former proprietor, Charles Fleetwood, assigned DL to James Lacy in exchange for an annuity due himself, which was collected by "a Gentleman appointed to receive the same"; yet that annuity was first set at £500, then reduced to £300 when Garrick bought the theatre, rather than at £315.
Unknown £14 5s 3d Unknown To Mr. Hughs Pr bill Milhous and Hume, in 'A Drury Lane Account Book for 1745-46', p. 102 note, "A schedule of some of Charles Fleetwood's debts in P.R.O. C11/2101/2 includes a laceman by this name. Whether they are the same person we do not know." A payment record of 10 October 1745 calls him only "Salesman".
Total £150 19s