Saturday 31 January 1778

Plays

Performances
The Battle of Hastings, Comus (1772)
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£213 14s 6d
Available Revenue
60%
Capacity
76%
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 £213 14s 6d £181 13s £31 6s 6d 15s £0
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £4 7s 6d Stopages
Sub Total £4 7s 6d
Total £218 2s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Dancers £14 14s Internal Siga. Crespi 24 Days at at 3. 13. 6 pr. Wk.
Employees (Other) £443 12s 1d Internal Five Days Salary at 88. 14. 5
Employees (Other) £13 16s 6d Internal Certainties
Housekeeping £27 7s 4d Departmental House 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 £4 14s Internal Lampmen
Singers £6 Internal Chorus
Singers £46 8s 4d Internal Miss Walpole 98 Days not on List at 16/8. £81. 13. 4 Recd. on Acct. 35. 5. 0 before & now
Supernumeraries £8 15s Internal Sups.
Composers £21 External Mr. Ml. Arne for Music in Cymon
Music Copyists £1 6s 5d Internal Music Bill pr Gaudry
Mantuamaking £1 10d Departmental Mants. Do [Bill]
Tailoring £4 1s Departmental Taylor's Do. [Bill]
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £2 18s 11d Departmental Carps. Bill
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £8 12s 6d Internal 7 C: Sup: Candn. & 75 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".
Bill Distribution £2 14s Internal Billstickers
Printing £9 12s External Printer
Dividends £83 6s 8d External Const. Divd.
Funds and Trusts £200 External D: 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 expense: 31 January 1778, "D: F: Mr. Linley's Saly. for Last Season", £500.
Renters' Shares £8 External Renters
Total £907 19s 7d