Saturday 10 March 1798

Plays

Performances
The Gamester, Blue Beard; or, Female Curiosity!
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£378
Available Revenue
67%
Capacity
62%
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 £378 £308 6s 6d £68 12s £1 1s 6d £0
Total £378

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) £378 2s 8d Internal 4 Days Salaries at £94: 10: 8 Pr. Diem
Actors £100 Internal Mrs. Siddons Liquidation for Saty "for Saty" was written because the expense was recorded overleaf from the rest of the Saturday 10 March 1798 expenses.
Actors £52 10s Internal Mrs. Jordan pd. Mr. G.
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £30 Departmental Carps. on Acct.
Newspaper Advertisements £23 2s External Morning Post Bill
Stage Managers £21 Internal Mr. Wroughton
Actors £20 Internal Mrs. Siddons for this Night
Musicians (Other) £18 6s Internal D. of Gloster's Band 3. Nights
Musical Services and Supplies (Other) £15 Unknown Forster to complete Bill Mr. S Unclear which Forster this was.
Singers £12 Internal Chorus to 1. March
Lighting (Other) £12 9s External Mr. Fosbrook for Glossop
Leases (Ground and Buildings) £10 External Mr. G. for D. of B. Grubb to the Duke of Bedford.
Loan Repayments (as Debtor) £10 External Do. [Mr. G.] for Wallis
Lamplighters £7 1s Internal Lampmen
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal Johnstone's Salary
Scene Painters £5 5s Internal Mr. Pugh Painter
Production Design (Other) £5 9s Departmental Do. [Johnstone's] Men
Annuities £4 4s External Lacey Mr. 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.
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein Saly
Musicians (Kettle Drums) £3 3s Internal Asbridge on Acct.
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Greenwood
Tailoring £3 16s 1d Departmental Gay Taylor
Security £3 3s Internal Stevens Watchman on Acct.
Scene Painters £2 2s Internal Chalmers
Music Copyists £2 2s Internal Buckholtz Music Copyg
Wardrobe (Other) £1 10s Internal Phillimore
Music Copyists £1 1s Internal Daglish
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Chatterley Saly.
Mantuamaking £1 Departmental Mantua
Mantuamaking £1 7s 1d Departmental Do. [Mantua] Bill
Laundry and Dyeing £1 8s Internal Booth Washing Bills
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Do. [Gay] Salary
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby
House Servants (Other) 6s 8d Internal Pilsbury
Wardrobe (Other) 10s Internal Mrs. Linley to complete
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
House Servants (Other) 7s Internal Maxwell to complete
Wardrobe (Other) 15s Internal Smith
Total £764 4s