Monday 13 January 1800

Plays

Performances
Hamlet, Lodoiska
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£365 14s
Available Revenue
64%
Capacity
60%

Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A

Notes
Afterpiece in place of The Humourist, advertised on playbill of 11 Jan

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £365 14s £276 16s £87 14s 6d £1 3s 6d £0 Headcount for first account: Box (347), plus Free Box (330); Pit (646), plus Free Pit (47); F. Gall (468), plus Free F. Gall (18); and U. Gall. (257). Headcount for latter account: Box (533), plus Free Box (61); Pit (21), plus Free Pit (14); F. Gall (96); and U. Gall (35).
Box   £104 2s £79 19s
Pit   £113 1s £2 2s
First Gallery   £46 16s £4 16s
Upper Gallery   £12 17s 17s 6d
Total £365 14s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Loan Repayments (as Debtor) £70 17s 6d External Mr. Burgess on Acct. of Money lent last Season
Renters' Shares £42 12s External Mrs: Eavis Windus O R
Actors £31 10s Internal Mrs: Siddons for Playing & Arrears
Law £20 Internal Mr. Burgess Saly
Lighting (Other) £20 External Mr. Glossop
Renters' Shares £12 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).
Candles (Tallow) £11 5s 8d External Mr. Rablus Tallow Chandler
Timber £11 16s 2d External Do. [Mr. Jackson] Paid Remnant for Timber A note bracketed to this and two other entries, "(Jacobs Acct.)".
Singers £6 5s Internal The Westminster Boys in Pizarro
Law £5 17s External Pd. Mr. Nowell for Copies of Title Deeds
House Servants (Other) £5 5s Internal Miss Margt. Doyle on Acct. of Salary
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £2 17s 1d Departmental Do. [Mr. Jackson] Balance of 2 Carps. Bills Jacobs A note bracketed to this and two other entries reads, "(Jacobs Acct.)".
Construction 15s External Mr. Jackson Bricklayer for Work A note bracketed to this and two other entries, "(Jacobs Acct.)".
Total £241 5d