Saturday 24 March 1798

Plays

Performances
The Stranger, The Prize; or, 2, 5, 3, 8, To Welcome Mirth and Harmless Glee, I Have a Silent Sorrow Here
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£420 17s 6d
Available Revenue
70%
Capacity
69%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Mainpiece: altered from Menschenhass und Reue by August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue
Prologue by William Linley; epilogue by Matthew Gregory Lewis
With new Scenes, Dresses &c
With Musick by Thomas Shaw

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £420 17s 6d £378 11s 6d £40 18s £1 8s £0
Total £420 17s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) £378 16s Internal 4. Days Salas. at £94. 14. 0 Pr. diem
Actors £100 Internal Do. [Mrs. Siddons] Liquidation
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £40 Departmental Carpenters on Acct.
Unknown £34 18s Unknown Walker & Weilby in full Perhaps a payment to William Wilby, whom DL frequently paid for copper lace around this time and sometimes called "Weilby". Wilby does not seem to have had a partner named Walker, but possibly Wilby had sued DL for money owed, and Walker had joined him in the suit or was Wilby's legal representative.
Oil £24 10s External Glossop Sperm Oil
Stage Managers £21 Internal Mr. Wroughton
Renters' Shares £20 External Fowks for Forth
Actors £20 Internal Mrs. Siddons
Singers £18 7s 6d Internal Bellamy for St. Paul's Boy
Candles (Wax) £12 9s External Do. [Glossop] for Wax
Loan Repayments (as Debtor) £10 External Mr. G. on Acct. of Money Lent
Loan Repayments (as Debtor) £10 External Do. [Mr. G.] Wallis
Leases (Ground and Buildings) £10 External Mr. G. D. of B Grubb to the Duke of Bedford.
Candles (Tallow) £10 External Horn Chandler on Acct.
Timber £8 External Wells Sawyer
Play Licences £8 8s External Dale for 4. Licenses
Production Design (Other) £7 Departmental Johnstone's Men
Lamplighters £7 3s 6d Internal Lampmen
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal Johnstone Saly.
Tailoring £6 Departmental Gay Taylor's Bill
Music Copyists £5 5s Internal Buckholtz on Acct. of Music Copyg.
Scene Painters £5 5s Internal Miss Greenwood
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.
Actors £4 18s 2d Internal Hollingsworth last years Arrears
Wardrobe (Other) £3 3s Internal Miss Linley
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Mantuamaking £3 3s Internal Miss Rein
Actors £3 Internal Suett Liquidation
Scene Painters £2 2s Internal Mr. Chalmers
Treasurers £1 1s Internal Dunn
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Do. [Gay Taylor's] Salary
Wardrobe (Other) £1 10s Internal Phillimore Mrs.
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby Do. [Saly]
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Chatterley Saly
Mantuamaking £1 2s Departmental Do. [Mantua's] Women
Mantuamaking £1 1s 6d Departmental Mantua's Bill
House Servants (Other) 7s Internal Mrs. Maxwell Do. [Saly]
House Servants (Other) 6s 8d Internal Pilsbury Do. [Saly]
Laundry and Dyeing 18s 6d Departmental Washing Bills
Wardrobe (Other) 15s Internal Smith Do. [Saly.]
Wardrobe (Other) 10s Internal Mrs. Linley
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Total £799 8s 4d