Saturday 6 January 1798

Plays

Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£104 4s
Available Revenue
35%
Capacity
17%

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

Notes
On account of the Indisposition of a principal performer, The Wheel of Fortune advertised on playbill of 5 Jan is obliged to be deferred

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £104 4s £58 1s 6d £45 6d £1 2s £0
Total £104 4s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Cleaners 10s Internal Sweepers
Employees (Other) £2 10s 6d Internal Constant Sals.
Employees (Other) £563 6s Internal 6 Days Sals. at £93: 17: 8 Pr. diem
Lamplighters £6 16s Internal Lampmen
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Singers £10 10s Internal Chorus on Acct.
Stage Managers £21 Internal Do. [Mr Wroughton] Salary
Supernumeraries £15 11s 6d Internal Supernumes. on Acct.
Clothing Material (Other) £4 1s 1d External Rein's Bills for materials 3. Weeks
Laundry and Dyeing £1 15s 10d Departmental Washing Bills
Mantuamaking £1 16s Departmental Mantua's Women
Tailoring £15 15s 9d Departmental Gay Taylor on Account
Tailoring £3 12s Internal Do. [Gay] 2 weeks Salary
Wardrobe (Other) £1 10s Internal Mrs. Phillimore
Wardrobe (Other) 15s Internal Mrs. Smith
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £40 Departmental Carpenters on Account
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal Mr. Johnstone Saly.
Production Design (Other) £14 Internal Do. [Mr Johnstone] on his own Account
Production Design (Other) £8 8s Departmental Johnstone's Men
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. T. Greenwood on Acct. Saly
Scene Painters £2 2s Internal Mr. Chalmers Assistant
Lighting (Other) £6 External Glossop Sperm
Oil £7 17s 6d External Morris Oil 19th.
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £10 10s External Mrs. Lowndes Printer on Acct.
Messengers and Porters 13s Departmental Mr Wroughton for Messages
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby Do [Salary]
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Chatterley Salary
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.
Funds and Trusts £240 External Messrs. Hammersley & Co. Trusts
Total £997 8s 8d