Saturday 28 February 1778

Plays

Performances
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Selima and Azor, The Provincalle
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£210 18s
Available Revenue
55%
Capacity
75%
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 £210 18s £183 14s £27 4s £0 £0
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £3 2s 6d Stopages
Sub Total £3 2s 6d
Total £214 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £12 Internal Miss Kirby from 1st Janry. 48 Days at 5/ pr. Diem not on List
Employees (Other) £450 16s 8d Internal By 5 Days Salary at 90. 3. 4
Employees (Other) £13 16s 6d Internal Certs:
Housekeeping £6 10s 5d 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 10s Internal Lampmen
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Webb for Chorus Grouped together with other entries as "Music Bills".
Supernumeraries £3 14s 6d Internal Sups.
Music Copyists 6s 6d Internal Daglish 2 Bills Grouped together with other entries as "Music Bills".
Musicians (Kettle Drums) £1 15s Internal Mr. Neilson K Drum Grouped together with other entries as "Music Bills".
Mantuamaking 18s 5d Departmental Mants. Do. [Bill]
Tailoring £4 5s 4d Departmental Taylors Do [Bill]
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £8 3s 6d Internal 7 C: Sup: Candn. & 69 Exta 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 £1 11s 8d Departmental Carps. Bill
Bill Distribution £2 5s Internal Billstickers
Printing £9 13s 6d External Printer
Dividends £83 6s 8d External C: Divd.
Funds and Trusts £400 External D: Fund Memoranda in the account book do not show the Debt Fund being drawn upon for any expenses between the previous payment into it and this one.
Renters' Shares £8 External Renters
Total £1,015 13s 8d