Saturday 26 December 1778

Plays

Performances
The Spanish Friar; or, The Double Discovery, The Camp
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£186 8s
Available Revenue
N/A
Capacity
67%
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 £186 8s £162 10s £23 11s 6d 6s 6d £0
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £2 14s Stopages
Sub Total £2 14s
Total £189 2s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) £332 3s 8d Internal By 4 Days Salary at 83. -. 11 pr. diem
Employees (Other) £44 8s Internal Const. Salaries
Housekeeping £15 14s 7d Departmental Housekeeps. Bill to 19th. Inclus 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 £8 10s Internal Mr. Webb Chorus 23d. Inclus
Supernumeraries £14 Internal Superns. to 23d. Inclus
Musicians (Kettle Drums) 15s Internal Mr. Neilson K Drum Do. [23d.] Inclus
Mantuamaking 16s 2d Departmental Mants. Do. [Bill]
Tailoring £10 4s 6d Departmental Taylors Do. [Bill]
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £6 9s Internal 7 Const. Candn. & 54 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 £15 8s 8d Departmental Carps. Bill
Bill Distribution £2 14s Internal Billstickers
Printing £9 External Printer's Bill to 19th. Inclusive
Benefit Payments £50 Internal Mr. J. Palmer on Acct. of Benefit
Renters' Shares £8 External Renters
Total £522 13s 7d