Saturday 31 May 1777

Plays

Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£183 13s
Available Revenue
100%
Capacity
66%

Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £183 13s £175 13s £6 19s 6d £1 6d £0
Total £183 13s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors 10s Internal Miss Field
Actors £3 Internal Mr Kings Extra
Dancers 5s Internal Miss Higginson Do [in full of this season]
Employees (Other) £596 19s 6d Internal To six days Salary @ £99. 9. 11 Pr day
Lamplighters £5 2s Internal Lampmen
Performers (Other) £2 6s Internal Mr Legrand not on List
Singers £6 1s 8d Internal Mr Helm in full of this Season
Music Copyists £1 12s Internal Daglish & Edwards
Mantuamaking £2 Departmental Mantua Maker's Do [bill]
Tailoring £3 2s 3d Departmental Taylor's Do [bill]
Wardrobe (Other) £3 Internal Heath & Cooper
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £5 16s 8d Internal Miss young's Cloaths (in full)
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £3 Internal Mrs Abington's Do [Cloaths] in full of 120
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £2 11s 6d Departmental Carpenter's bill
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £9 16s 6d Internal 7 Constant, super, &c (83) 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".
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 £6 Internal Mrs Baddeley's Do [Cloaths] and 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.
Loan Repayments (as Debtor) £12 External L to G & Patts: to ballce: L
Renters' Shares £8 External Rent
Total £676 5s 1d