Saturday 16 December 1797

Plays

Performances
The Castle Spectre, The Humourist; or Who's Who?
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£261 13s
Available Revenue
69%
Capacity
43%
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 £261 13s £195 11s 6d £63 16s 6d £2 5s £0
Total £261 13s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) £563 6s Internal 6 Days Salaries at £93. 17. 8
Actors £52 10s Internal Mrs. Jordan
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £26 Departmental Cheyne on Acct. of Carps. Morng "Cheyne on Acct. of Carps." written once but applying to this and another entry.
Renters' Shares £19 15s External Mr. R. Ray Renter
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £14 Departmental Cheyne on Acct. of Carps. Nt. "Cheyne on Acct. of Carps." written once but applying to this and another entry.
Tailoring £13 19s 3d Departmental Gay Taylor Bill "Gay Taylor" written once but applying to this and another entry.
Lighting (Other) £8 5s External Glossop Sperm
Production Design (Other) £7 Departmental Johnstone for his Men
Oil £7 17s 6d External Morris Oil
Scene Painters £6 6s Internal Mr. Capon by Mr. Fox
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal Johnstone Salary
Newspaper Advertisements £5 17s External Sunday Recorder
Books, Paper and Stationery £5 5s External Do. [Johnstone] for Paper for Blue Beard
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.
Musicians (Other) £4 17s 6d Internal Extra Band in the Chimney Corner
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Tom Greenwood
Mantuamaking £3 5s 7d Departmental Mantua's Bill in full
Law £2 2s External Mr. Laver Sheriffs Office by Mr. Grubb's order Perhaps related to a Moore who seems to have taken legal action against the theatre and been paid via Mr and/or Mrs Laver. One or more Moores supplied various metals to Drury Lane 1787-1807, but it is unclear whether this was the same person.
Scene Painters £2 2s Internal Mr. Chalmers Assistant
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Gay Taylor Salary "Gay Taylor" written once but applying to this and another entry.
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby
Wardrobe (Other) £1 10s Internal Mrs. Phillimore
Mantuamaking £1 6s Departmental Mantua's Women
Messengers and Porters 18s Internal Chatterley
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Wardrobe (Other) 15s Internal Smith
Total £764 1s 4d