Wednesday 11 November 1801

Plays

Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£527 2s
Available Revenue
60%
Capacity
86%

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 £527 2s £476 2s 6d £49 5s 6d £1 14s £0
Total £527 2s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Funds and Trusts £114 8s 6d External The Pit Money
Singers £52 10s Internal Mrs. Billington by Mr. Nield
Musicians (Band) £30 16s 6d Internal Band in Orchestra
Musicians (Other) £20 Internal Duke of York's Band on Acct.
Loan Repayments (as Debtor) £20 External Mr. Wright in full of Money advanc'd
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £16 5s 6d Departmental Carpenters by Cheyne
Supernumeraries £15 Internal Supernumeraries
Lighting (Other) £15 External Mr. Glossop Lighting
Funds and Trusts £13 11s 6d External and out of the Box Money
Singers £11 6d Internal Chorus
Actors £10 Internal Kelly on Acct.
Printing £10 External Lowndes Printer
Singers £10 Internal T Welsh
Management £10 10s Internal Mr. Richardson
Actors £10 Internal C. Kemble
Singers £9 Internal Mrs. Mountain
Actors £8 Internal Raymond do. [Salary]
Production Design (Other) £7 Departmental Johnston for Men
Supernumeraries £7 1s Internal Soldiers in Pizarro
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Powell
Scene Painters £5 5s Internal Mr. T Greenwood
Singers £5 Internal Stevens
Actors £5 Internal Mellon
Actors £5 Internal do. [Caulfield] on Acct.
Dancers £4 Internal Grimaldi
Singers £4 Internal Dignum Salary
Singers £4 Internal Miss Tyrer
Musicians (Trumpets) £4 4s Internal Thompson. Trumpets
Actors £3 Internal Packer
Actors £3 Internal Mrs. Sontley
Actors £3 Internal Mrs. Campbell
Scene Painters £3 Internal Banks, Painter
Actors £2 2s Internal Caulfield for Drury
Law £2 2s External Storey Man in Possession
Actors £2 Internal Miss Stuart
Music Copyists £2 2s Internal Buckholtz Music Copyist
Actors £2 Internal Miss Humphries
Annuities £2 2s External Mr. Lacy, by Mrs. 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.
Actors £1 5s Internal Mr. Webb
Singers £1 5s Internal Butler
Singers £1 10s Internal Arne
Singers £1 Internal Coates
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Total £462 18s