Monday 13 November 1797

Plays

Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£351 14s
Available Revenue
57%
Capacity
58%

Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A

Notes
2nd piece in place of Thomas and Sally, advertised on playbill of 11 Nov

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £351 14s £283 16s £66 10s £1 8s £0
Total £351 14s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Unknown £31 10s Unknown Stevenson on Acct. of £60 Firm [?] Acceptance Potentially the "Paget & Stevenson" whose old debt "for Spirits of Wine in Harleq Captive" was paid on 11 March 1799. There were multiple Stevensons working at Drury Lane around this time, but they seem less likely recipients for this payment.
Actors £26 5s Internal Mr. Kemble Liquidation
Oil £20 External Morris for Oil
Production Design (Other) £15 Departmental Johnstone on Account
House Servants (Other) £7 16s Internal Potts Hallkeeper 13 Weeks attendance in the Summer at 12s/ from the close to the opening
Candles (Wax) £6 External Glossopp Wax for this Night
Scene Painters £5 Internal Do. [Johnstone] for Miss Greenwoods
Annuities £4 4s External Mr. Lacey this day Inclusive 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.
Employees (Other) £2 10s 6d Internal Constant Salaries
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Total £120 19s