Saturday 17 October 1801

Plays

Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£482 19s
Available Revenue
100%
Capacity
79%

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

Notes
Principal characters in Artaxerxes: Artaxerxes, Mr Dignum;Artabanes, Mr Kelly; Arbaces (3rd time), Mrs Mountain; Rimenes, Mr Cooke; Mandane, Mrs Billington (her 3rd appearance on this stage); Semira, Mrs Bland
Mrs Billington will introduce a bravura song, composed by Bianchi, with an obligato accompaniment on the violin by Mr Weichsell
With entirely new scenery, dresses, and decorations

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £482 19s £412 15s 6d £70 2s 6d 1s £0
Total £482 19s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Lamplighters £6 5s 6d Internal Lampmen
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Singers £11 Internal Chorus
Singers £105 Internal Mr. Fosbrook towards Mrs. Billingtons Bill
Supernumeraries £12 Internal Supers
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £28 14s Departmental Carpenters
Candles (Tallow) £5 External Cheyne for Rablus Tallow pd Tuesday
Lighting (Other) £15 External Mr. Glossop
Management £26 5s Internal Mr. Sheridan Board of Management
Management £9 9s Internal Mr. Richardson
Management £1 1s Internal Do. [Mr.] do. [Richardson]
Animals 5s External To Recover the Dog
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby saly
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal West do. [saly]
Annuities £1 1s External Mr. Lacy 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.
Funds and Trusts £7 7s 6d External do. [Pit Money to Trustees] to compleat deficiency of last Season
Funds and Trusts £45 External Pit Money to Trustees
Funds and Trusts £117 19s External Arrears of do. [Bankers Trust] the last 4 Nights
Funds and Trusts £83 External Bankers Trust
Law £5 5s External Mortimer Possesson Money
Total £482 17s 6d