Saturday 21 April 1798

Plays

Performances
The Castle Spectre, The Shipwreck
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£290 5s 6d
Available Revenue
35%
Capacity
48%
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 £290 5s 6d £207 9s 6d £80 8s £2 8s £0
Total £290 5s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) £564 4s Internal 6 Days Sals. at £94. 0. 8
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Singers £12 Internal Chorus
Stage Managers £21 Internal Mr. Wroughton
Supernumeraries 16s 6d Internal James Fearm [?] Supernumy.
Treasurers £1 Internal Dunn
Musicians (Side Drums) £3 7s 6d Internal Side Drum
Musicians (Trumpets) £3 Internal Thompson Trumpets
Laundry and Dyeing £1 4s 4d Departmental Washing Bills
Mantuamaking £1 4s Departmental Mantua's Women
Mantuamaking £1 11s 4d Departmental Do. [Mantua's] Bill
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Gay Taylor Salary
Tailoring £4 18s 11d Departmental Do. [Gay Taylor] in full of Bill
Wardrobe (Other) 15s Internal Smith Mrs.
Wardrobe (Other) £1 10s Internal Mrs. Phillimore
Wardrobe (Other) £3 3s Internal Miss Linley
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £40 Departmental Carpenters
Production Design (Other) £5 5s Departmental Johnstone's Men
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal Johnstone Salary
Scene Painters £2 2s Internal Chalmers
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Greenwood
Glass £10 10s External Mr. Flood Glaizer
Oil £42 External Mr. Glossop Oil 2 Drafts
Christmas Boxes 2s 6d External Gray's Inn Porter The sum seems relatively small for Christmas boxes, the normal reason for payment to porters of Inns of Court, so the categorisation may be incorrect.
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Chatterley
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby
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 £741 2s 7d