Saturday 18 November 1797

Plays

Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£166 6s
Available Revenue
43%
Capacity
27%

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 £166 6s £92 17s £69 3s 6d £4 5s 6d £0
Total £166 6s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) £554 5s Internal 6 Days Salaries at £92: 7: 6 Pr. dm.
Housekeeping £10 Departmental Mr. Fosbrook on Acct. of Props. & House Bill 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”.
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Singers £6 6s Internal Chorus on Account
Stage Managers £21 Internal Mr. Wroughton
Musicians (Trumpets) £2 5s Internal Thompson Trumpets to this day
Clothing Material (Decorations) £1 7s External Mr. Lonsdale for spangles
Laundry and Dyeing 16s 11d Internal Booth washing Bills
Mantuamaking £1 11s Departmental Mantua's Women
Tailoring £5 6s 8d Departmental Gay Taylor on Acct.
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Do. [Gay] Salary
Wardrobe (Other) 15s Internal Smith Wardrobe "Wardrobe" written once but relating to this and another entry.
Wardrobe (Other) £1 10s Internal Phillimore Wardrobe "Wardrobe" written once but relating to this and another entry.
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £40 Departmental Cheyne on Account of Carps. £25: & £15: 0: 0 It may be that one of the sums was for day work and the other for night work, but, if so, it is impossible to be certain on which was which.
Production Design (Other) £11 5s Departmental Johnstone on Acct. 5. 5. 0 and 6. 0. 0
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. T. Greenwood Saly
Scene Painters £2 2s Internal Chalmers assistant Painter
Candles (Wax) £6 External Glossopp for Wax this Night
Oil £20 External Morris on Acct. for Oil
Newspaper Advertisements £35 15s External P. Stuart Oracle last Season
Messengers and Porters 18s Internal Chatterley Do. [Messinger]
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby Messinger
Annuities £4 4s External Mr. Lacey 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.
Authorial Payments (Other) £21 External Mr. Franklin for Trip to the Nore
Total £753 7s 1d