Saturday 22 December 1804

Plays

Performances
The Way to Keep Him, The Prize; or, 2, 5, 3, 8
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£149 15s
Available Revenue
48%
Capacity
25%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in The Way to Keep Him: Sir Bashful Constant, Mr Bannister; Lovemore, Mr Wroughton; The Widow Belmour, Mrs Jordan; Mrs Lovemore, Mrs H Johnston; Lady Constant, Miss Mellon
Mrs Jordan, who will introduce "The Willow" accompanied by herself on the lute

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £140 12s £106 6d £32 19s 18s 14s 6d Odd money Headcount for first account: Box (237); Pit (149); F. Gall (72); and U. Gall. (33). Headcount for latter account: Box (166); Pit (56); F. Gall (34); and U. Gall (30).
Box   £71 2s £24 18s
Pit   £26 1s 6d £5 12s
First Gallery   £7 4s £1 14s
Upper Gallery   £1 13s 15s
Door Receipts £9 3s £9 3s £0 £0 £0 Over Tickets
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Uncategorised 12s 6d Dowland
Uncategorised 7s Mr Goodman
Sub Total 19s 6d
Total £150 14s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £19 2s Internal Mr Bannister
Actors £18 Internal Mr. Elliston
Actors £16 Internal Mr. Pope
Actors £15 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Actors £12 Internal Mr. Suett
Actors £12 Internal Mr. Dowton
Actors £20 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Johnstone
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Barrymore
Actors £9 Internal Mr. Palmer
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Cherry
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Collins
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Russell
Actors £9 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Mathews
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Holland
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Bartley
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Packer
Actors £6 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors £3 10s Internal Mr. & Mrs. Maddocks
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Waldron
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Fisher
Actors £14 Internal Mrs. Powell
Actors £11 Internal Miss Pope
Actors £10 Internal Miss Duncan
Actors £7 Internal Mrs. Ansell
Actors £6 Internal Mrs. Harlow
Actors £5 Internal Miss Mellon
Actors £5 Internal Miss Hicks
Actors £5 Internal Mrs. Sontley
Actors £3 Internal Mrs. Henry
Actors £2 10s Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £2 Internal Mrs. Scott
Actors £1 10s Internal Mr. Purser
Actors £1 5s Internal Mr. Webb
Actors £6 Internal Mrs. Johnstone
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Jones
Actors £1 10s Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Lee
Actors £2 Internal Mrs. Gunning
Actors £1 Internal Master Tokeley
Actors £47 5s Internal Mrs. Jordan 3. Nights
Cleaners £7 10s Internal Sweepers
Dancers £10 Internal Mr. Byrn
Dancers £4 Internal Mr. Grimaldi
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Mayle
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Byrn
Dancers £5 Internal Mrs. Sharp
Dancers £1 Internal Mrs. Wells
Dancers £1 Internal Mrs. Grimaldi
Dancers £14 Internal Mrs. Byrn Miss Benson Miss Watson Miss Boyce Miss Bristoe Miss C. Bristoe Miss Taylor Miss Vining Miss Daniels Mrs. Brooker Women Dancers
Dancers £10 10s Internal Men Dancers
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 Internal Mr. Thompson
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 10s Internal Mr Bynam
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £3 Internal Bynam to complete 8 Week's Salary
Employees (Other) £30 12s Internal Dale for Servants Dale's list of payees sometimes included performers, hence its categorisation here as "Employees (Other)" rather than "House Servants (Other)".
House Servants (Other) £3 3s Internal Dale for Watchmen Potts & Donnelly
Lamplighters £6 16s 6d Internal Lampmen
Performers (Other) £15 Internal Miss Decamp Maria Theresa De Camp, who acted, sung and danced.
Performers (Other) £4 Internal Miss Holloway
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Mr. Evans
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Miss Kelly
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Menage
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Decamp
Prompters £3 10s Internal Mr. Stokes
Prompters £5 Internal Mr. Powell Prompr
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Security 14s Internal Rigge day Watch
Singers £16 Internal Mr. Kelly
Singers £6 Internal Mr. Borrowes
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Dignum
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Welsh
Singers £2 Internal Mr. Gibbons
Singers £12 12s Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £12 12s Internal Mrs. Bland
Singers £2 Internal Miss C. Hicks
Singers £1 10s Internal Mr. Danby
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Caulfield
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Elliott
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Rhodes
Singers £1 Internal Mast. Bond
Singers £1 10s Internal Mrs. Gardiner
Singers £1 10s Internal Miss Wentworth
Singers £1 Internal Miss Saunders
Singers £1 Internal Miss Williams
Singers £1 Internal Mrs. Coates
Singers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Butler
Singers £5 Internal Chorus
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr Wroughton Manager & Actor
Supernumeraries £11 3s Internal Supernumeraries
Supernumeraries £5 Internal Soldiers in Pizarro
Treasurers £12 Internal Mr Peake
Treasurers £1 Internal Check counter & Assistant in Treasury Apparently Dale's assistant and/or an assistant in the treasury. Presumably this payment relates to one person rather than two.
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr. Dunn
Music Copyists £1 Internal Mr. Wyber Junr
Musicians (Band) £63 3s Internal The Band
Musicians (Band) £10 Internal Mr Shaw
Musicians (Other) £5 5s Internal Dressler Trombone
Musicians (Other) £5 13s Internal D. of York's Band
Musicians (Other) £2 12s 6d Internal Flack playing Bugle Horns
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 4s Internal Mrs. Brady
Dressers £10 16s Internal Dressers
Dressers £1 10s Internal Two Miss Smiths
Dressers £2 5s Internal Niegh Mr. Extra Dresser
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Mantuamaking £24 4s 6d Departmental Mantua's Do [Bill]
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Banks Taylor
Tailoring £19 15s Departmental Taylor's Do. [Bill]
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Wilson & Wife
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £47 9s 11d Departmental Carpenters
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £10 16s 7d Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Properties £7 7s External DeWild for Painting two Portraits
Scene Painters £5 15s 6d Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 Internal Mr Banks
Scene Painters £4 14s 6d Internal Smith Painter
Scene Painters £4 14s 6d Internal Meyrick Do. [Painter]
Candles (Tallow) £16 4s External Rablus Tallow Chandler
Upkeep and Refurbishments (Other) £2 12s 6d External Brown for Lime
Bill Distribution £2 11s Internal Billstickers
Printing £23 7s External Lowndes Printer
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Managemt. by the Lord Chamberlain's Order
Charcoal £1 4s External Greenwood for Charcoal
Messengers and Porters £1 5s Internal Mr. Chatterley
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby Messinger
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal West Do. [Messinger]
Annuities £6 6s External Mr. Lacey 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.
Law £9 Internal Mr Burgess
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Tuck Tinman
Tinworkers £1 8s External Tinman's Assistant
Total £1,020 10s 6d