Friday 27 October 1797

Plays

Performances
The Will, The Prize; or, 2, 5, 3, 8
Event Type
Benefit
Revenue
£631 8s
Available Revenue
100%
Capacity
104%
Beneficiary(ies)
Naval heroes, their widows and orphans
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Charge
£140 17s
Additional Charge
£20 3s 6d
Notes
Benefit: a Fund for the Relief of the Wounded Seamen and also for the Widows and Orphans of the Brave Men who fell in the late Glorious Action under Admiral Lord Viscount Duncan
Under the Patronage of H R H the Prince of Wales, H R H the Duke of York, and H R H the Duke of Clarence
The Tickets for the Boxes are issued under the Direction of a Committee consisting of the following Noblemen and Gentlemen, who have obligingly undertaken to attend to the arrangement of the Evening: The Duke of Leeds, The Duke of Bedford, The Earl of Guildford, The Earl of Thanet, The Right Honorable the Lord Mayor Brook Watson, Mr Alderman Combe, M P Mr Alderman Skinner, John Julius Angerstein Esq
Tickets and Places for the Boxes not disposed of by the Committee to be had of Fosbrook at the Box Office, Little Russell Street and at the Bar of Lloyd's Coffee House
Address by Richard Cumberland
Additional charge for advertising

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £419 7s 6d £357 17s 6d £57 4s 6d £1 11s £2 14s 6d Money Extra Left at the Doors
Beneficiaries
Tickets Amount Box Pit Gallery Total
Naval heroes, their widows and orphans £212 6d N/A N/A N/A N/A
Total £631 8s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Funds and Trusts £110 External Hammersley & Co. Transferred to Trusts
Actors £52 10s Internal J P. Kemble Liquidation
Miscellaneous £20 External Cheyne on Account of Carps. & Rablus
Authorial Payments (Other) £20 External Mr. Holcroft on Acct. of New Comedy (Dft. dated 3rd Nov)
Annuities £2 External Mr. Lacy on Acct. Presumably a payment on Willoughby Lacey's annuity. BD vol. 9, pp. 108-10 states that, from 1804-05 through 1808-09 Lacey was paid £6 6s. per week as part of "an agreement that he was to receive one guinea from every performance. He also was paid periodically on his annuity but, as was usual with Sheridan, those payments frequently were in arrears"; and that Sheridan paid the second Mrs Lacey "18 guineas due on her husband's annuity" in 1804. However, frequent multiple-guinea payments (sometimes £6 6s) to a "Mr. Lacey" appear in the Drury Lane account books from the 1797-98 season onwards. This suggests that the £6 6s payments made between 1804-05 and 1808-09 in fact fell into a longer-running series of annuity payments.
Laundry and Dyeing £1 4d Internal Mrs. Booth Washing Bill
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Total £206 7s 10d