Saturday 14 December 1799

Plays

Performances
The East Indian, The Deserter
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£164 1s
Available Revenue
46%
Capacity
27%
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 £164 1s £93 7s 6d £66 9s 6d £4 4s £0 Headcount for first account: Box (148); Pit (187); F. Gall (125); and U. Gall. (75). Headcount for latter account: Box (336); Pit (78); F. Gall (111); and U. Gall (109).
Box   £44 8s £50 8s
Pit   £32 14s 6d £7 16s
First Gallery   £12 10s £5 11s
Upper Gallery   £3 15s £2 14s 6d
Total £164 1s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £7 Internal Do. [Mr. Aickin] Saly. as Actor
Actors £2 10s Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £1 10s Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Actors £2 10s Internal Miss Heard
Actors £5 Internal Mrs. Walcot
Actors £2 2s Internal Mr. Bannister Senr.
Actors £1 10s Internal Mr. Wentworth
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Maddocks
Actors £1 10s Internal Mrs. Maddocks
Actors £8 Internal Mr. R. Palmer
Actors £1 10s Internal Mr. Sparkes
Actors £1 10s Internal Mrs. Do. [Sparkes]
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Dowton
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Holland
Actors £1 10s Internal Mr. Chippendale
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Jones
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Caulfield
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Surmont
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Cory
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Benson
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Archer
Actors £6 Internal Miss Humphries
Actors £5 Internal Miss Mellon
Actors £1 10s Internal Mr. Fisher
Actors £8 Internal Mrs. Powell
Actors £4 Internal Miss Stuart
Actors £1 Internal Mr. Ryder
Actors £11 Internal Miss Pope
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £9 Internal Mr. C. Kemble
Actors £8 Internal Miss Biggs
Actors £16 Internal Mr. King
Actors £12 Internal Mr. Suett
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Talbot 1st. Paymt.
Actors £2 Internal Mr. De Camp
Actors £31 10s Internal Mrs. Siddons Saly.
Actors £3 Internal Miss Campbell Listed under "By Dale".
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Hollingsworth Listed under "By Dale".
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Packer Listed under "By Dale".
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Trueman Listed under "By Dale".
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Wathen Listed under "By Dale".
Actors £1 5s Internal Mr. Webb Listed under "By Dale".
Cleaners 12s Internal Mr. Donnelly Sweeper
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Haskey
Dancers £2 Internal Miss B. Menage
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Roffey
Dancers £1 10s Internal Mrs. Do. [Roffey]
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Drake
Dancers £2 10s Internal Mr. Grimaldi
Dancers £10 Internal Messds. Brooker, Byrne, Briggs, Luciet, Drake, Vining, Riches, Willis Listed under "Dancers".
Dancers £8 5s Internal Messrs. Garman, Gurion, Bezand, Johnston, Wells Whitmell, Goodman, Banks Listed under "Dancers". Two amounts listed against this entry: £8 and £0 5s 0d.
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 Internal Mr. Thompson
House Servants (Other) £1 Internal Mrs. Doyle
House Servants (Other) £1 Internal Miss Do. [Doyle]
House Servants (Other) £1 Internal Mr. Pilsbury
House Servants (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Potts Hall Keeper on Accot.
House Servants (Other) £30 9s Internal The Servants, Office Keeps. &c Listed under "By Dale".
Lamplighters £6 10s 6d Internal Lampmen
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Menage
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Kelly
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Mr. Evans
Performers (Other) £9 Internal Miss De Camp Maria Theresa De Camp, who acted, sung and danced.
Prompters £1 16s Internal Mr. Stokes
Prompters £4 Internal Mr. Powell Prompter
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Security £1 Internal Mr. Rigge Day Watch
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Danby
Singers £2 Internal Mr. Welsh
Singers £3 3s Internal Mr. T. Welsh
Singers £1 Internal Miss Saunders
Singers £1 Internal Miss Jacobs
Singers £1 10s Internal Miss Wentworth
Singers £15 Internal Mr. Kelly Mrs. Crouch
Singers £1 Internal Mrs. Do. [Chippendale]
Singers £1 Internal Mrs. Mills
Singers £10 Internal Mrs. Bland
Singers £1 Internal Mrs. Coates
Singers £1 Internal Mrs. Gaudry
Singers £1 10s Internal Miss Arne
Singers £1 Internal Miss Tirrell
Singers £4 Internal Miss Stephens
Singers £3 Internal Mr. Clarke
Singers £1 Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Dignum & 1 prior
Singers £6 Internal Mr. Sedgwick
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Dignum one prior week
Singers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Butler Listed under "By Dale".
Singers £1 10s Internal Mr. Danby Listed under "By Dale".
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Reynoldson Listed under "By Dale".
Stage Managers £5 Internal Mr. Aickin Depy. Manager
Stage Managers £3 Internal Do. [Mr. Aickin] Arrears
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Mr. Dunn & last week
Treasurers £10 Internal Mr. Peake
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Mr. Dunn last week
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Wyber Music Copyist
Music Copyists 10s Internal Do. [Wyber] Junr.
Musicians (Band) £61 13s Internal Orchestra by Mr. Forster
Musicians (Band) £6 Internal Mr. Shaw Listed under "By Dale".
Musicians (Other) £6 2s Internal Duke of Glo'ster's Band by Blayney
Laundry and Dyeing £1 19s 3d Internal Mrs. Booth Washing Bills
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 4s Internal Mr. Brady
Mantuamaking £2 2s Departmental Mantua makers Bill "Mantua makers" written once but appying to this and another entry.
Mantuamaking 14s Departmental Mantua makers Women "Mantua makers" written once but appying to this and another entry.
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Gay Taylor Saly.
Tailoring £14 5s Departmental Gay Taylors Bill on Accot.
Wardrobe (Other) £1 10s Internal Mrs. Linley
Wardrobe (Other) £1 Internal Phillimore
Wardrobe (Other) 15s Internal Mrs. Smith Wardrobe
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £30 Departmental Carpenters by Cheyne
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £6 1s Departmental Mr. Jackson for Jacobs's Carpenters
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £5 5s Departmental Jacobs's Carpenters by Mr. Jackson
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal Mr. Johnsone
Production Design (Other) £4 Departmental Mr. Johnston
Scene Painters £4 4s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 Internal Mr. Banks
Weaponry £3 3s External Mr. Hatton Sword Cutler
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Bill Stickers by Ball
Bill Distribution 6s Internal Do. [Bill Stickers] Extra
Printing £8 External Mrs. Lowndes Printer
Management £37 16s Internal Board of Management Saly.
Taxes (Other) £9 16s External Do. [Mr. Jackson] to compleat a Bill for Taxes
Books, Paper and Stationery 1s External Stamps
Messengers and Porters 15s Internal Robt. Chatterly
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. Chatterly Messenger
Unknown £78 3s Unknown Mr. Pittman on Accot. of Bill of Exchange
Annuities £6 6s External Mr. Lacy Listed under "By Dale". 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.
Funds and Trusts £240 External Messrs. Wallis Ford & Hammersley
Renters' Shares £21 External Mr. Jennings for Ogden The Ogden family, usually William Ogden, had been paid for a number of renters' shares in the 1789-94 seasons.
Renters' Shares £21 6s External Mr. Dawson O. Renter
Renters' Shares £8 External Mr. Franco Presumably a payment to Francis or Jacob Franco, each of whom had been renters and executors of Raphael Franco. The latter had himself been a renter and had owned, or had a financial interest in, some part of Willoughby Lacy's former moiety of the Drury Lane theatrical property. (See the MS "Observations on the Title to the Ben Johnsons head. 24th July 1812 Copy sent to Mr Burgess", London Metropolitan Archive, E/BER/CG/E/08/09/006). On 1 November 1790 Drury Lane paid Jacob and Francis "to withdraw their Chancery Suit", but three payments across the 1799-1801 seasons attest to continuing (or new?) legal trouble with a Mr Franco, and a Mr Franco was paid £50 once in 1798-99"s Old Debt column, then numerous sums ranging from £4 to £20 throughout the 1799-1800 season, for no specified reason. It is here presumed that the large out-of-court settlement had related to the broader ownership of the theatrical property, whereas the later, smaller payments related to renters' shares. However, it may not have been the same Franco (or his executors) involved each time. There is also an alternative possibility: a Mr Franco was paid for "Horse hire" on 31 October 1797, and it may have been he who was paid the £50 and/or the smaller sums throughout 1799-1800, or who took legal action against the theatre at the end of the 1790s (though surely not on 1 November 1790).
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Total £1,019 4s 3d