Tuesday 20 October 1801

Plays

Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£178 4s
Available Revenue
30%
Capacity
29%

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

Notes
Principal characters in A Bold Stroke for a Wife: Feignwell, Mr Bannister, jun.; Obadia Prim, Mr Dowton; Mrs Prim, Miss Pope; Anne Lovely, Miss Mellon

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £178 4s £116 17s £59 13s £1 14s £0
Total £178 4s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Funds and Trusts £68 14s External Box Money to Bankers
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £15 Departmental The Carpenters
Lighting (Other) £15 External Glossop pd on Thursday morng
Singers £11 Internal Chorus
Musicians (Other) £10 Internal D. of York's Band
Production Design (Other) £10 Departmental Mr. Johnston for Duenna
Annuities £2 2s External 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.
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Total £132 13s 6d