| Actors |
10s |
Internal |
Miss Field |
|
| Employees (Other) |
£598 9s 6d |
Internal |
To six days Salary @ 99. 14. 11 Pr day |
|
| Lamplighters |
£5 2s |
Internal |
Lampmen |
|
| Music Copyists |
£1 12s |
Internal |
Daglish & Edwards |
|
| Mantuamaking |
£2 |
Departmental |
Mantua Maker's Do [bill] |
|
| Tailoring |
£2 18s 7d |
Departmental |
Taylor's Do [bill] |
|
| Wardrobe (Other) |
£3 |
Internal |
Heath & Cooper |
|
| Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) |
£4 |
Internal |
Mrs Abington's Do [Cloathes] |
|
| Carpentry and Sceneshifting |
£7 11s 6d |
Internal |
7 Constant, Super, &c Candlen (53) 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 |
£3 17s 4d |
Departmental |
Carpenter's bill |
|
| Bill Distribution |
£2 14s |
Internal |
Billstickers |
|
| Bill Distribution |
12s |
External |
Handbills |
|
| 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 |
£6 |
Internal |
Mrs Baddeley's Do [Cloathes] & Benefit |
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. |
| Total |
£640 2s 11d |