Monday 9 November 1801

Plays

Performances
Artaxerxes, The Citizen
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£456 12s 6d
Available Revenue
57%
Capacity
75%

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

Notes
Principal characters in Artaxerxes: Artaxerxes, Mr Dignum; Artabanes, Mr Kelly; Arbaces, Mrs Mountain; Rimenes, Mr Cooke; Mandane, Mrs Billington; Semira, Mrs Bland
Mrs Billington will introduce a bravura song, composed by Bianchi, with an obligato accompaniment on the violin by Mr Weichsell

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £456 12s 6d £374 £80 19s 6d £1 13s £0
Total £456 12s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £12 Internal Suett Listed under "Salaries".
Actors £8 Internal Palmer Listed under "Salaries".
Actors £8 6s 8d Internal Barrymore Listed under "Salaries".
Actors £10 Internal Mrs. Powell Listed under "Salaries".
Actors £8 Internal Dowton Listed under "Salaries".
Actors £8 Internal Wathen Listed under "Salaries".
Actors £11 13s 4d Internal Bannister Listed under "Salaries".
Actors £12 Internal Wroughton Listed under "Salaries". BD vol. 16, p. 299 seems to suggest that Wroughton's second stint as stage manager began in 1800, but it was only from the 1804-05 season onwards that account books called him "Manager", and his salary payments 1800-04 suggest he was only an actor during that period.
Actors £10 Internal Biggs Listed under "Salaries".
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Treasurers £10 Internal Peake on Acct. of Salary
Music Copyists £1 Internal Buckholtz on Acct. of Music Copyg
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £16 18s 6d Departmental Carpenters by Cheyne
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal Mr. Johnston
Candles (Tallow) £5 5s External Rablus Tallow
Lighting (Other) £30 External Mr. Glossop
Management £5 5s Internal Mr. Richardson
Annuities £1 External Mr. Lacy on account 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 £83 External Bankers Trust
Funds and Trusts £107 16s External The Pit Money
Law £30 External Mr. Burgess on Acct. of Fees to Council
Loan Repayments (as Debtor) £20 External Mr. Wright on Acct. of Money lent
Total £405 2s