| Employees (Other) |
£361 13s 4d |
Internal |
By 4 Days Salary at 90. 8. 4. |
|
| Employees (Other) |
£13 16s 6d |
Internal |
Certs. |
|
| Housekeeping |
£12 6s 5d |
Departmental |
House Bill |
Pence amount is in fact 5.5, but the half pence has not been recorded here. 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 |
|
| Supernumeraries |
£4 9s 6d |
Internal |
Sups. |
|
| Mantuamaking |
14s |
Departmental |
Mants. Do [Bill] |
|
| Tailoring |
£3 9s 3d |
Departmental |
Taylors Do. [Bill] |
|
| Carpentry and Sceneshifting |
£8 8s |
Internal |
7 C: Sup: Candn. & 80 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 |
£2 17s 6d |
Departmental |
Carps. Bill |
|
| Candles (Tallow) |
£40 5s 3d |
External |
Tallow Chandlers 6th. Bill |
|
| Bill Distribution |
£2 14s |
Internal |
Billstickers |
|
| Printing |
£7 10s |
External |
Printer |
|
| Dividends |
£66 13s 4d |
External |
Constant 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 expenses: 3 March 1778, "Messrs. Thompson (Smith)", £3 8s; "Marshal (Plumber", £7 17s 10d; "Carpue Silk Dyer", £2 12s; "Carter Scowerer", £13 6d; "Norfolk Glazier", £10 18s 9d; "Coles & Evans Stationers", £6 13s 4d; "Westcott Slater", £8 4s; "Williams & Co. Buttonmakrs.", £2 11s 3d; "Gilles & Jones Worstd. Lace", 15s. |
| Renters' Shares |
£8 |
External |
Renters |
|
| Total |
£737 7s 1d |