Wednesday 15 June 1803

Plays

Performances
Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, The Shipwreck
Event Type
Benefit
Revenue
£74 15s
Available Revenue
N/A
Capacity
N/A
Beneficiary(ies)
Mr Lacey
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Charge
Free
Additional Charge
N/A

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £74 15s £39 6s 6d £35 8s 6d £0 £0 Headcount for first account: Box (61); Pit (81); F. Gall (47); and U. Gall. (43). Headcount for latter account: Box (190); Pit (39); F. Gall (32); and U. Gall (57).
Box   £18 6s £28 10s
Pit   £14 3s 6d £3 18s
First Gallery   £4 14s £1 12s
Upper Gallery   £2 3s £1 8s 6d
Beneficiaries
Tickets Amount Box Pit Gallery Total
Mr Lacey £0 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Benefit deficiencies £146 12s 4d Boxkeepers 14th June
Benefit deficiencies £132 14s 2d Portal & others Benefit Deficy 13th
Benefit deficiencies £101 16s 6d Mrs Glover's Benefit Deficy
Benefit deficiencies £96 3d Fisher & others on account
Benefit deficiencies £95 8s 9d Stokes and others Benefit Defy
Benefit deficiencies £53 12s 9d Mrs Bland Benft Deficy
Ticket money £44 14s [Ticket Takers 11th June] Dale
Benefit deficiencies £41 1s 3d Mr Russell's Benefit Deficy
Benefit deficiencies £38 13s 4d Mr Raymond on Acct
Benefit deficiencies £27 1s 3d Mr Caulfield on acc of Do [Benft Deficy]
Ticket money £18 6s 6d [Ticket Takers 11th June] Monday
Ticket money £16 18s 6d [Ticket Takers 11th June] Gregson
Ticket money £14 11s 6d [Ticket Takers 11th June] Calkin
Ticket money £14 8s 6d [Ticket Takers 11th June] Waterer
Ticket money £9 9s 9d [Ticket Takers 11th June] Bennett
Ticket money £7 19s 6d [Ticket Takers 11th June] Berry
Ticket money £6 15s [Ticket Takers 11th June] Lings
Ticket money £5 4s [Ticket Takers 11th June] Tokeley
Ticket money £3 7s [Ticket Takers 11th June] Freke
Sub Total £874 14s 10d
Total £949 9s 10d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Clothing Material (Other) £132 3s 7d External The Executors of Mr. Aug. Street Mercer
Canvas £119 11s 2d External Mr. Fowlks for canvas
Coal £100 2s 6d External Mr. Michell Coals
Clothing Material (Decorations) £100 7s 6d External Mr. Turner for Spangles
Actors £47 5s Internal Mrs. Jordan
Lighting (Other) £45 External Mr. Glossop Lighting
Food and Drink £44 12s External Mr. Spencers Carpenter's Treat Presumably the Spencer occasionally paid from 16 November 1789 onwards for supplying meals, here being paid to treat Drury Lane's carpenters to a a meal or meals. The payment amount is surprisingly high, though. Perhaps it was simply a gratuity paid to all the carpenters, paid via Mr Spencer.
Musicians (Band) £30 16s 6d Internal Band in the Orchestra
Newspaper Advertisements £30 4s External The Morning Herald
Printing £29 16s 8d External Lowndes Printer
Newspaper Advertisements £26 18s External The Morning Post
Properties £22 1s 5d Departmental Mr. Caton for Stage Properties
Management £21 Internal Principal Board of Management
Renters' Shares £21 External Mary Green Old Renter
Renters' Shares £21 External Catherine Durant Do. [Old Renter]
Production Design (Other) £21 Internal Mr. Underwood Summer Salary
Employees (Other) £17 6d Internal Dale for Servants Dale's list of payees sometimes included performers, hence its categorisation here as "Employees (Other)" rather than "House Servants (Other)".
Writers of Parts £17 2s 10d Internal Mr. Stokes Copying Parts
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £14 16s 6d Departmental Carpenters
Actors £12 10s Internal Mr. & Mrs. Pope
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £12 18s Departmental Carpenters
Music Copyists £10 10s Internal Mr. Tatnell allowance for attending Rehearsals
Clothing Material (Decorations) £10 16s External Mr. Cresswell for Jewells
Accounting and Payment Issues £10 13s External Mr. Suett's Ticket Money paid twice to Trust Account return'd
Hair, Beards and Wigs £10 Internal Mrs. Brady allow'd for Bills by Order of the Board of Management
Actors £8 10s Internal Mr. Bannister Actor "Mr. Bannister" written once but applying to this and another entry.
Singers £8 Internal Mr. Kelly
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Wroughton 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.
Candles (Tallow) £7 4s External Rablus Tallow Chandler
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Suett
Singers £6 Internal Mrs. Bland
Performers (Other) £6 Internal Miss Decamp Maria Theresa De Camp, who acted, sung and danced.
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Lamplighters £6 16s 6d Internal Lampmen
Musicians (Other) £6 17s Internal D. of Gloster's Band
Books, Paper and Stationery £6 16s 6d External Do. [Mr. Stokes] for Stationary
Treasurers £5 Internal R. Wilson Esq. Auditor
Actors £5 10s Internal Mr. C. Kemble
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Barrymore
Actors £5 10s Internal Miss Pope
Actors £5 Internal Mrs. Powell
Actors £5 Internal Mrs. Younge
Scene Painters £5 15s 6d Internal Mr. Greenwood
Dancers £5 Internal Mr. Byrn
Dressers £5 3s 6d Internal Dressers
Musicians (Organs) £5 5s Internal Mr. Costelo Playing the Organ in Hero of the North
Musicians (Harps) £5 5s Internal Mr. Weippert Playing Harp
Actors £4 10s Internal Mr. Palmer
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Wathen
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Dowton
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Cherry
Actors £4 Internal Mrs. Glover
Musicians (Band) £4 10s Internal Mr. Shaw Leader of the Band
Musicians (Other) £4 5s Internal Mr. Dressler Playing the Trombone
Stage Managers £3 Internal Mr. Bannister Manager "Mr. Bannister" written once but applying to this and another entry.
Actors £3 10s Internal Mr. Dwyer
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Powell
Singers £3 Internal Mr. Sedgwick
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Caulfield
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Collins
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Singers £3 10s Internal Mrs. Crouch
Singers £3 10s Internal Miss Stephens
Actors £3 Internal Mrs. Harlow
Scene Painters £3 Internal Mr. Banks
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Russell
Dancers £3 15s Internal Women Dancers
Cleaners £3 15s Internal Sweepers
Musicians (Other) £3 3s Internal O Farrell Union Pipes
Prompters £3 3s 5d Departmental Powell Prompters Bill
Brokerage £3 10s External Green Broker Expences This payment relates to the above payment, "Catherine Durant Do. [Old Renter]", and perhaps also to the payment above that, "Mary Green Old Renter".
Laundry and Dyeing £3 16s External Savage to make up Bill
Production Design (Other) £3 17s Departmental Mr. Johnstone's Bill
Actors £2 10s Internal Mr. Holland
Singers £2 Internal Mr. Dignum
Prompters £2 Internal Mr. Powell Prompr.
Singers £2 Internal Mr. Cooke
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Grimaldi
Actors £2 5s Internal Mr. Sparks & Wife
Treasurers £2 10s Internal Mr. Dunn
Actors £2 10s Internal Mrs. Ansell
Actors £2 10s Internal Miss Mellon
Singers £2 10s Internal Miss Tyrer
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Hollingsworth
Dancers £2 12s 6d Internal Men Dancers
Security £2 5s Internal Constables
Security £2 12s 6d Internal Soldiers
Supernumeraries £2 17s Internal Supernumeraries
Tailoring £2 1s 9d Departmental Taylor's Bill
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 18s 6d Internal Taylor Extra Check
Benefit Payments £2 1s 2d Internal Mr. Fosbrook return'd over Charge in Benefit
Dancers £2 5s Internal Misses Lowndes, Smith & Rogers Do. [3. Nights dancing]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 6d Internal Mr. Freke Extra Door keeper
Dressers £2 14s Internal Mrs. Dawe Extra Dresser 48 Nights
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £2 Departmental Do. [Carpenters] Night work
Actors £1 10s Internal Mr. Packer
Actors £1 10s Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £1 15s Internal Mr. Maddocks & Wife
Prompters £1 10s Internal Mr. Stokes
Singers £1 10s Internal Mr. Welsh
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 Internal Mr. Thompson
Actors £1 Internal Mr. Fisher
Actors £1 Internal Mr. Waldron
Dancers £1 10s Internal Miss B. Manage
Actors £1 10s Internal Miss Campbell
Actors £1 5s Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Scott
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Ferraris
Actors £1 10s Internal Miss Hicks
Housekeeping £1 Internal Mrs. Fosbrook
Actors £1 10s Internal Mr. Bartley
Dancers £1 Internal Mr. Male
Actors £1 10s Internal Mrs. Henry
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. West
Dressers £1 Internal Miss A. Smith
Wardrobe (Other) £1 Internal Mr. Phillimore
Security £1 16s Internal Watchmen
Dancers £1 11s 6d Internal Mast. Byrn 3. Nights
Cleaners £1 10s 6d Internal Sweepers bye days
Actors 14s Internal Mr. Bannister Senr.
Singers 15s Internal Mr. Danby
Singers 15s Internal Mr. Gibbons BD vol. 6, pp. 167-9 expresses uncertainty over the timeline of the Gibbons, but speculates that the actor, Mr Gibbon, was paid until the end of 1802-03, at which point the singer, James Deverell Gibbon, began to be paid in his stead. But the nature of the payments, and the fact that Gibbon was paid sometimes with the singer Elliott in 1801-02, suggest that BD is mistaken, and that James Deverell Gibbon was the recipient as early as 1801-02.
Actors 15s Internal Mr. Purser
House Servants (Other) 15s Internal Mr. Smith Likely to be either Mr Smith the officekeeper (p. 130) or Mr Smith the dresser (p. 131), described in BD vol. 14. However, there are issues with both: BD states that the officekeeper finished working at Drury Lane in 1800, and the dresser was only paid 9s. per week in 1801, whereas the recipient here worked in the 1802-03 season at £ 10s. per week. Perhaps the term "new engagement" used in the first payment to him (6 November 1802) suggests that it was the old officekeeper, who had left in 1800 but returned. Or perhaps neither identification is correct, and this was a different Smith.
Music Copyists 15s Internal Mr. Wyber
Singers 12s 6d Internal Mr. Caulfield
Singers 12s 6d Internal Mr. Cooke
Actors 12s 6d Internal Mr. Webb
Performers (Other) 12s 6d Internal Mr. Evans
Singers 12s 6d Internal Mr. Elliott
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers 10s Internal Mr. Graham
Singers 10s Internal Mr. Heather
Singers 10s Internal Mr. Rhodes
Messengers and Porters 7s 6d Internal Mr. B. Chatterley
Music Copyists 5s Internal Mr. Wyber Junr.
Performers (Other) 5s Internal Mast. Blanchard
Singers 15s Internal Miss Arne
Actors 15s Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Singers 15s Internal Miss Hicks
Singers 15s Internal Miss Wentworth
Singers 12s 6d Internal Mrs. Butler
Dancers 12s 6d Internal Mrs. Haskey
Hair, Beards and Wigs 12s Internal Mrs. Brady
Performers (Other) 10s Internal Mrs. Blanchard
Dancers 10s Internal Miss Bristoe
Dancers 10s Internal Mrs. Grimaldi
Singers 10s Internal Mrs. Coates
Actors 10s Internal Mrs. Jones
Performers (Other) 10s Internal Miss Kelly
Performers (Other) 10s Internal Miss Menage
Singers 10s Internal Miss Saunders
Dancers 10s Internal Miss Watson
Performers (Other) 10s Internal Mrs. Parsons Her pay, and the employment of a singer named Mr Parsons at Drury Lane several years later, suggest that Mrs Parsons may have been a singer. She was certainly a performer, as listed amongst the female performers at the start of Drury Lane's 1802-03 account book.
Dancers 10s Internal Mrs. Wells
Singers 10s Internal Miss Williams
Actors 10s Internal Mrs. Fisher
Actors 10s Internal Wm. Chatterley
Actors 15s Internal Miss I. Palmer
Dressers 10s Internal Miss L. Smith
Security 12s Internal Mr. Rigg
Cleaners 12s Internal Mr. Donnelly
House Servants (Other) 15s Internal Mr. Potts
Bill Distribution 12s Internal Billstickers
Properties 5s Departmental Stage Properties
Laundry and Dyeing 13s 6d Internal Booth Washing Bill
Mantuamaking 11s 6d Departmental Mantua
Canvas 11s 8d Internal Mrs. Dawes Sewing Canvas
Dancers 15s Internal Mr Barrett 3. Nights dancing "Mrs" seems more likely. Perhaps a male relative collected the money for her, or it is a scribal error.
Musical Services and Supplies (Other) 15s Internal Mr. Wyber Symbols & Extra Dancing
Total £1,278 9s 8d