Tuesday 13 December 1791

Plays

Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£244 16s 6d
Available Revenue
61%
Capacity
54%

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 £244 16s 6d £203 13s 6d £39 12s £1 11s £0
Total £244 16s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Housekeeping £3 13s 3d Departmental House Bill Do. [one Week]
Lamplighters £6 11s Internal Lampmen & Candlemen
Musical Services and Supplies (Other) £4 15s 6d External Longman for last Season to 16th. June Presumably Longman the partner of Broadrip, the two of whom were paid several times by Drury Lane between 1786 and 1790 for sheet music and instruments.
Sheet Music Purchases £2 2s Internal Flack for Binding to 13th. March
Sheet Music Purchases £8 18s 6d External Forster for Overtures Vanessa Rogers has identified the recipient as William John Forster, music publisher, and suggested the "Overtures" were possibly his recently-published "Six Overtures" by Haydn.
Laundry and Dyeing £1 17s 2d Departmental Washing Bills
Properties £2 5s Departmental Properties one Week
Oil £500 External Messrs. Pugh Keeling & Hawking on Acct.
Oil £529 14s 6d External Messrs. Pugh, Hawkins & Keeling in full
Printing £10 4s External Printers Bill to 3rd. Inst.
Renters' Shares £3,914 16s External By Cash carried to Renters Acct. Page 101 Page 101 is the following page of the account book, where the itemisation of "Renters Paid for Season 1790/91" begins. Those payments add up to £3701, which is £213 16s less than the amount paid into the renters account here.
Total £4,984 16s 11d