Saturday 17 March 1798

Plays

Performances
The Tragedy of Jane Shore, Blue Beard; or, Female Curiosity!
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£327 8s
Available Revenue
57%
Capacity
54%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
The New Play of The Stranger advertised on playbill of 15 Mar is unavoidably postponed till Thursday next

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £327 8s £253 18s 6d £70 2s 6d £3 7s £0
Total £327 8s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) £378 2s 8d Internal 4. Days Salaries at £94. 10. 8
Actors £100 Internal Mrs. Siddons Liquidation
Actors £52 10s Internal Mrs. Jordan Arrears
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £42 Departmental Carpenters
Actors £26 5s Internal Mr. Kemble Liquidation
Stage Managers £21 Internal Mr. Wroughton
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £21 Departmental Carpenters on Account
Renters' Shares £20 External White Thos. Renter
Actors £20 Internal Mrs. Siddons
Musicians (Other) £12 4s Internal D. of Gloster's Band 2 Nights
Singers £12 Internal Chorus to 8th.
Leases (Ground and Buildings) £10 External Mr. G. for D. of Bedford
Candles (Tallow) £10 10s External Rablus Tallow Chandler
Loan Repayments (as Debtor) £10 External Do. [Mr. G.] for Wallis Likely to be "Mr Grubb".
Printing £10 10s External Printer on Acct.
Lamplighters £7 1s Internal Lampmen
Production Design (Other) £7 7s Departmental Johnstone's Men
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal Johnstone Saly
Tailoring £6 7s 8d Departmental Do. [Gay Taylor] Bill
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.
Mantuamaking £4 1s 6d Departmental Do. [Rein] Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £3 3s Internal Mrs. Linley
Musicians (Trumpets) £3 Internal Thompson Trumpets
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Rein
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Greenwood
Laundry and Dyeing £2 17s Internal Ditcher White washing
Scene Painters £2 2s Internal Chalmers
Actors £2 12s Internal Mr. Suett Do. [Arrears]
Law £1 4s 6d External Expences on Do. [White Thos. Renter]
Treasurers £1 1s Internal Dunn
Music Copyists £1 1s Internal Daglish
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Chatterley
Mantuamaking £1 6s Departmental Mantua makers
Laundry and Dyeing £1 3s 6d Departmental Washing Bills
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Gay Taylor Salary
Wardrobe (Other) £1 10s Internal Phillimore
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
House Servants (Other) 7s Internal Mrs. Maxwell to complete
Wardrobe (Other) 15s Internal Smith
House Servants (Other) 6s 8d Internal Pilsbury
Total £814 16s