Saturday 18 October 1777

Plays

Performances
Twelfth Night, The Quaker, Rural Grace
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£204 6d
Available Revenue
100%
Capacity
73%
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 £204 6d £204 6d £0 £0 £0
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £6 2s Stopages
Sub Total £6 2s
Total £210 2s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £1 2s 6d Internal Camery 9 Days not on List
Actors 10s Internal Miss Field
Actors £3 Internal Mr Kings Extra Sal
Dancers £7 14s 6d Internal Mr. Slingsby Do. [9 Days not on List] raised Saly.
Employees (Other) £324 17s 8d Internal By 4 Days Saly. at 81. 4. 5 Pr. Diem
Employees (Other) £13 6s 6d Internal Certs.
House Servants (Other) £2 14s 2d Internal Mrs. Collis 13 Days not on List
Lamplighters £5 2s Internal Lampmen
Lamplighters £3 18s Internal Lampmen
Music Copyists £1 Internal Daglish
Musicians (Band) £4 Internal Mr Decamp 2 Weeks not on List Presumably George Louis De Camp, presumably for playing in CG's band this season.
Musicians (Kettle Drums) £1 Internal Kettle Drum
Mantuamaking £2 16s Departmental Mantua M Do [bill]
Mantuamaking £1 7s 6d Departmental Mants. Do. [Bill]
Tailoring £6 11s 6d Departmental Taylors Do [bill]
Tailoring £7 1s 9d Departmental Taylors Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £3 Internal Heath & Cooper
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £4 Internal Mrs Abingtons Scribe presumably forgot to write "Cloathes" or "Do [Cloathes]" here.
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £5 Internal Miss Young's Cloathes
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £9 7s 1d Departmental Carpenters bill
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £18 7s 6d Internal 7 Constant super &c (197) 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 2s Internal 7 Const. Sup & Candn. & 36 Ext 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 11s 10d Departmental Carps. Bill
Bill Distribution £2 14s Internal Billstickers
Bill Distribution £2 14s Internal Billstickers
Bill Distribution 12s External Handbills
Dividends £66 13s 4d External Const: Divd.
Management £24 19s 6d Internal Mr. Linley 9 Days not on List
Messengers and Porters £1 16s Internal Stevens & Dealer 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 Baddeleys Cloathes &c 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 (the "&c" denoting the benefit payment).
Funds and Trusts £350 External Debt Fund Memoranda in the account book show that, between the previous payment into the Debt Fund and this one, it had been drawn upon for the following expenses: 14 October 1777, "Mr Powney (Stationer) from Debt. F.", £63; "D. Ford (Summer Acct.) from D: F:", £50.
Renters' Shares £8 External Rent
Total £897 19s 4d