Tuesday 28 January 1800

Plays

Performances
Pizarro, No Song No Supper
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£499 18s
Available Revenue
68%
Capacity
82%

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 £499 18s £444 18s 6d £54 6s 6d 13s £0 Headcount for first account: Box (821), plus Free Box (330); Pit (699), plus Free Pit (11); F. Gall (608), plus Free F. Gall (13); and U. Gall. (310). Headcount for latter account: Box (348), plus Free Box (39); Pit (15), plus Free Pit (7); F. Gall (8); and U. Gall (9).
Box   £246 6s £52 4s
Pit   £122 6s 6d £1 10s
First Gallery   £60 16s 8s
Upper Gallery   £15 10s 4s 6d
Total £499 18s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Funds and Trusts £240 External Messrs: Wallis, Ford & Hammersley
Authorial Payments (Other) £50 External Mr. Coleman for Feudal Times
Law £50 External Mr. Burgess (Law Exps)
Lighting (Other) £20 External Mr. Glossop Lighting
Renters' Shares £20 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).
Musicians (Other) £10 11s Internal The Duke of Glosters Band by Bayney
Supernumeraries £10 Internal The Soldiers in Pizarro Extra
Actors £8 Internal Mr. King
Musicians (Trumpets) £6 Internal Mr. Thompson Extra Trumpets
Candles (Tallow) £6 6s 1d External Mr: Rablus Tallow Candles
Miscellaneous £3 3s External Cheyne on Acct. of Disboursements
Musicians (Side Drums) £3 7s 6d Internal Mr. Wallis Side Drums
Total £427 7s 7d