Saturday 13 January 1798

Plays

Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£138 13s 6d
Available Revenue
28%
Capacity
23%

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 £138 13s 6d £76 7s 6d £59 15s £2 11s £0
Total £138 13s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) £563 11s Internal 6 Days Salaries at £93: 18: 6 Pr. dm.
Employees (Other) £2 10s 6d Internal Const. Sals
House Servants (Other) £3 Internal Potts Hallkeeper on Acct. of Saly
Lamplighters £7 9s 8d Internal Lampmen
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Security £3 3s Internal Watchmen on Account
Stage Managers £21 Internal Mr Wroughton
Treasurers £2 Internal Mr. Dunn on Account of attendance
Laundry and Dyeing £1 3s 4d Internal Booth Washing Bills
Mantuamaking £3 14s Departmental Mantuamakers
Tailoring £15 4s 4d Departmental Taylor on Account
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Do. [Taylor] Salary
Wardrobe (Other) £1 10s Internal Mrs. Phillimore Salary
Wardrobe (Other) 15s Internal Mrs. Smith
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £40 Departmental Cheyne Carps.
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal Johnstone Salary
Production Design (Other) £8 8s Departmental Do. [Johnstone] on Acct. of Men
Production Design (Other) £2 2s Departmental Johnstones Men
Scene Painters £5 5s Internal Greenwood & Chalmers
Lighting (Other) £6 External Glossop Sperm
Metals £3 3s External Jackson Smith on Acct.
Oil £7 6s 7d External Morris Oil
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Chatterley
Unknown £20 Unknown Wood for Mary Reid's Bill of last Season Mr. S. Possibly the Mrs Read who was recorded singing in the Drury Lane oratorios in 1794 (BD vol. 12, p. 277), but the evidence is too slim for categorisation.
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.
Total £734 6s 11d