| Actors |
10s |
Internal |
Miss Field |
|
| Actors |
£2 |
Internal |
Mr King's extra |
|
| Employees (Other) |
£31 8s 6d |
Internal |
Super & K D. 4 Nights included |
|
| Employees (Other) |
£401 14s 4d |
Internal |
To 4 days Salary @ 100. 8. 7. Pr Day |
|
| Housekeeping |
£11 |
Departmental |
Housekeeper's bill |
Drury Lane normally in 1775-81, and sometimes in 1781-1802, included its properties bills (and perhaps some painters’ bills) in its housekeepers' bills, without distinguishing the amount paid on each. The relevant payments have been categorised “Housekeeping”, because the properties and painters evidently fell in the housekeepers’ remit in such cases, in both conceptual and practical terms. But note that properties and scene painters (if such they were) belong rather in “Properties, Scenes and Machines”. |
| Lamplighters |
£5 2s |
Internal |
Lampmen |
|
| Singers |
£7 |
Internal |
Chorus Singers |
|
| Music Copyists |
£1 12s |
Internal |
Daglish & Edwards |
|
| Mantuamaking |
£2 3s 4d |
Departmental |
Mantua Makers Do [bill] |
|
| Wardrobe (Other) |
£3 |
Internal |
Heath. D & Cooper |
|
| Wardrobe (Other) |
£22 |
Internal |
Mr Westley & Thomson attending Inventory |
|
| Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) |
£3 6s 8d |
Internal |
Miss young's Cloaths |
|
| Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) |
£3 |
Internal |
Mrs Abingtons Do [Cloaths] |
|
| Carpentry and Sceneshifting |
£8 9s 1d |
Departmental |
Carpenter's bill |
|
| Carpentry and Sceneshifting |
£9 9s |
Internal |
7 Constant super &c (94) Extra |
John Powel explains this recurrent DL payment in Tit for Tat (Houghton THE GEN TS 1574.316), p. 34, referring specifically to the 1747-49 seasons: "Four constant Supernumerary Scene-men to assist the Scene-men belonging to the House, and a Candle-Man, that see's all the Candles put out after the Play is over, at One Shilling each ... There are sometimes extraordinary Supernumerary Scene-men made use of in Plays to help at the Traps &c. such as Richard 3rd. Mackbeth, the Tempest &c. which have a Shilling each". Because the candleman was only a small part of the bundle, and was apparently considered to be close enough to the scenemen to be grouped with them, these payments have been categorised as "Carpentry and Sceneshifting". |
| Upholstery |
£93 17s 6d |
External |
Mr Ireland Upholders bill |
|
| Bill Distribution |
8s |
External |
Handbills |
|
| Bill Distribution |
£2 14s |
Internal |
Billsticker's |
|
| Messengers and Porters |
£1 16s |
Internal |
Stevens & Delater |
Stevens seems to have been a porter named James, paid a constant salary of 18s per week; despite the frequency of payments to him between 1771 and 1779, he does not seem to feature in BD. Nor does Delater, who only appears in the 1776-77 account book, evidently received the same salary as Stevens and only ever received it in conjunction with Stevens. Delater has therefore been assumed to be a porter too, but this may be incorrect. |
| Miscellaneous |
£4 |
Internal |
Mrs Baddeley's Do [Cloaths] & Benft. |
In the 1776-77 season Drury Lane paid Sophia Baddeley a wardrobe allowance and benefit substitute, often, as here, in the form of a weekly lump sum. |
| Loan Repayments (as Debtor) |
£6 |
External |
L to G |
|
| Loan Repayments (as Debtor) |
£192 |
External |
Patentees to balance L to G. to the 13 Inst inclusive |
|
| Loan Repayments (as Debtor) |
£6 |
External |
to Do. [Patentees to balance L to G.] for this Night |
|
| Renters' Shares |
£8 |
External |
Rent |
|
| Total |
£826 10s 5d |