Saturday 3 May 1777

Plays

Event Type
Benefit
Revenue
£257 2s
Available Revenue
45%
Capacity
92%

Beneficiary(ies)
Thomas Fosbrook
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Charge
£84
Additional Charge
Unknown

Notes
Benefit: Fosbrook
Tickets delivered for As You Like It on the 10th of May will be taken this Night

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £79 12s £62 3s £17 9s £0 £0
Beneficiaries
Tickets Amount Box Pit Gallery Total
Thomas Fosbrook £177 10s N/A N/A N/A N/A
Total £257 2s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors 10s Internal Miss Field
Actors £2 10s Internal Mr King
Employees (Other) £502 2s 11d Internal To 5 days Salary @ £100. 8. 7 Pr day
Lamplighters £5 2s Internal Lampmen
Music Copyists £1 12s Internal Daglish & Edwards
Mantuamaking £2 8s Departmental Mantua Maker's Do [bill]
Tailoring £5 3s 6d Departmental Taylor's Do [bill]
Wardrobe (Other) £3 Internal Heath & Cooper
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £4 Internal Mrs Abington
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £4 3s 4d Internal Younge
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £10 4s Internal 7 constant, super &c (96) 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".
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £5 4s 10d Departmental Carpenter's bill
Bill Distribution 12s External Handbills
Bill Distribution £2 14s Internal Billstickers
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 £5 Internal Baddeley 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) £12 External L to G & Patts to ballce L
Renters' Shares £8 External Rent
Total £576 2s 7d