Saturday 30 March 1805

Plays

Performances
Hamlet, The Doctor and the Apothecary
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£555 7s 6d
Available Revenue
69%
Capacity
91%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in Hamlet: Hamlet, by the young Roscius; Queen, Mrs Powell

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £547 17s 6d £511 10s £26 15s 6d 11s £9 1s Odd money Headcount for first account: Box (1019); Pit (788); F. Gall (538); and U. Gall. (272). Headcount for latter account: Box (156); Pit (9); F. Gall (11); and U. Gall (77).
Box   £306 4s £23 8s
Pit   £137 18s 18s
First Gallery   £53 16s 11s
Upper Gallery   £13 12s £1 18s 6d
Door Receipts £7 10s £7 10s £0 £0 £0 Private Boxes
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £5 6s 8d Do. Do. [Mr Raymond Stop'd]
Uncategorised £3 10s Mr Wewitzer
Uncategorised £2 Mr Cooke
Sub Total £10 16s 8d
Total £566 4s 2d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Management £42 Internal Principal Board of Management
Musicians (Band) £42 2s Internal The Band
Employees (Other) £22 4s Internal Dale for Servants Dale's list of payees sometimes included performers, hence its categorisation here as "Employees (Other)" rather than "House Servants (Other)".
Stage Managers £16 16s Internal Mr Wroughton Manager & Actor
Actors £13 6s 8d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Johnstone
Actors £12 14s 8d Internal Mr. Bannister
Actors £12 Internal Mr. Elliston
Actors £10 13s 4d Internal Mr. Pope
Singers £10 13s 4d Internal Mr. Kelly
Actors £10 Internal Mr Johnstone
Performers (Other) £10 Internal Miss Decamp Maria Theresa De Camp, who acted, sung and danced.
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Actors £9 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Powell
Dancers £9 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Byrn Miss Benson Miss Watson Miss Boyce Two Bristoes Miss Taylor Miss Vining Miss Brooker Miss Daniels
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Dowton
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Suett
Singers £8 8s Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £8 8s Internal Mrs. Bland
Treasurers £8 Internal Mr. Peake
Actors £7 6s 8d Internal Miss Pope
Dancers £7 Internal Men Dancers
Dressers £7 16s Internal Dressers Shillings figure written as "10" with a smaller "6" underneath, both numbers bracketed together.
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Barrymore
Dancers £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Byrn
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Palmer
Actors £6 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Mathews
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Miss Duncan
Law £6 Internal Mr. Burgess
Musicians (Band) £6 13s 4d Internal Mr Shaw
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Cherry
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Collins
Cleaners £5 Internal Sweepers
Scene Painters £5 15s 6d Internal Mr Greenwood
Prompters £5 Internal Mr Powell
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Mr. Russell
Singers £4 Internal Mr Borrows
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Holland
Actors £4 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Ansell
Actors £4 Internal Mrs. Harlow
Actors £4 Internal Mrs. B. Johnstone
Annuities £4 4s External 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.
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Mr. Decamp
Dancers £3 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Sharp
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Miss Mellon
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Miss Hicks
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Sontley
Security £3 Internal Constables
Security £3 10s Internal Soldiers
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Fisher & Daughter
Scene Painters £3 Internal Mr Banks
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr Underwood
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr Dunn
House Servants (Other) £3 3s Internal Dale for Servts. Watchmen &c
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Dignum
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Cooke
Dancers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Grimaldi
Actors £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Bartley
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Welsh
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Packer
Prompters £2 6s 8d Internal Mr Stokes
Actors £2 6s 8d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Maddocks
Performers (Other) £2 13s 4d Internal Miss Holloway
Actors £2 Internal Mrs. Henry
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Lee
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Mr. Wilson & Wife
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Waldron
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Fisher
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Thompson
Dancers £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Male
Dancers £1 6s 8d Internal Mast. Byrn
Singers £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Gibbons
Actors £1 13s 4d Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Scott
Singers £1 6s 8d Internal Miss C. Hicks
Singers £1 Internal Mr. Danby
Actors £1 Internal Mr Purser
Singers £1 Internal Mrs. Gardiner
Singers £1 Internal Miss Wentworth
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Gunning
Dressers £1 10s Internal Two Miss Smiths
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Mr. Banks
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal West
Music Copyists £1 Internal Wyber
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 10s Internal Bynam
Performers (Other) 16s 8d Internal Mr Evans
Actors 16s 8d Internal Mr Webb
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Caulfield
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Rhodes
Messengers and Porters 16s 8d Internal Mr Chatterley
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Elliott
Hair, Beards and Wigs 16s Internal Mr Brady
Singers 13s 4d Internal Mas Bond
Performers (Other) 16s 8d Internal Miss Kelly
Performers (Other) 13s 4d Internal Miss Menage
Singers 13s 4d Internal Miss Saunders
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Wells
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Grimaldi
Singers 13s 4d Internal Coates
Singers 13s 4d Internal Williams
Actors 13s 4d Internal Jones Mrs.
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mrs. Butler
Performers (Other) 13s 4d Internal Miss Decamp
Actors 13s 4d Internal Master Tokeley
Treasurers 13s 4d Internal Assistant & Check Counter Apparently Dale's assistant and/or an assistant in the treasury. Presumably this payment relates to one person rather than two.
Security 14s Internal Rigge Day Watch
Total £528 13s