Saturday 12 October 1805

Plays

Performances
The Beaux' Stratagem, Fortune's Frolic
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£167 15s 6d
Available Revenue
34%
Capacity
28%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in The Beaux Stratagem: Archer, Mr Elliston; Foigard, Mr Johnstone; Scrub, Mr Bannister; Mrs Sullen, Mrs Jordan;

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £167 15s 6d £110 6s 6d £55 14s £1 7s 8s Odd Money
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £10 Do. [Mr Barrymore]
Sub Total £10
Total £177 15s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £19 2s Internal Mr. Bannister
Actors £19 Internal Mr. Elliston
Actors £15 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Actors £12 Internal Mr. Dowton
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Barrymore
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Collins
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Palmer
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Cherry
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Russell
Actors £16 Internal Mr. & Mrs. H. Siddons
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Actors £10 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Mathews
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Holland
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Bartley
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Fisher
Actors £3 10s Internal Mr. & Mrs. Maddocks
Actors £5 Internal Mr. & Miss Fisher
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Purser
Actors £6 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors £1 5s Internal Mr. Webb
Actors £1 Internal Mast. Tokeley
Actors £15 Internal Mrs. Powell
Actors £12 Internal Miss Duncan
Actors £11 Internal Miss Pope
Actors £7 Internal Mrs. Ansell
Actors £6 Internal Miss Mellon
Actors £6 Internal Mrs. B. Johnstone
Actors £3 Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £3 Internal Mrs. Scott
Actors £3 Internal Miss Boyce
Actors £1 10s Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Jones
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Fisher
Actors £1 5s Internal Miss Benson
Actors £7 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Dormer
Actors £57 15s Internal Mrs. Jordan 4. Nights
Cleaners £7 10s Internal Sweepers
Cleaners 12s Internal Donnelly
Dancers £6 Internal Mr. Grimaldi
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Mayle
Dancers £5 Internal Mrs. Sharp
Dancers £1 10s Internal Mrs. Grimaldi
Dancers £1 Internal Mrs. Wells
Dancers £19 Internal Madsle. Parisot
Dancers £1 10s Internal Miss Watson
Dancers £3 Internal Miss Bristoe & Sister
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Minton
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Barrett
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Taylor
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Daniels
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Brooker
Dancers £1 10s Internal Mr. Goodman
Dancers £1 10s Internal Mr. Hartland
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Wells
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Austin
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Johnstone
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Hope
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Vials
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Broadhurst
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 Internal Mr. Thompson
House Servants (Other) £15 Internal Mr. Graham Principal Manager Graham was neither an actor nor a proprietor, hence it is inappropriate to categorise this payment as either "Stage Managers" (which denotes those persons, typically performers, who managed the day-to-day business of the stage) or "Management" (which denotes proprietors" payments for managing).
House Servants (Other) £35 17s Internal Servants List
House Servants (Other) 15s Internal Mr. Potts
Housekeeping £2 Internal Mrs. Burke
Lamplighters £6 16s 6d Internal Lampmen
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Mr. Evans
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 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 Promptr.
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Security £1 16s Internal 3. Watchmen
Security 14s Internal Mr. Rigge
Singers £30 Internal Mr. Braham
Singers £16 Internal Mr. Kelly
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Dignum
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Welsh
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £3 Internal Mr. Gibbons
Singers £1 10s Internal Mr. Danby
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Caulfield
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Rhodes
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Fitzsimmons
Singers £1 Internal Mr. Bond
Singers £42 Internal Madme. Storace
Singers £12 12s Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £12 12s Internal Mrs. Bland
Singers £1 10s Internal Mrs. Gardiner
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Elliott
Singers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Butler
Singers £1 Internal Miss Saunders
Singers £1 5s Internal Miss Howells BD vol. 8, pp. 6-8, records two female singers named Howells active at this time. Neither of them matches up to the Miss Howells appearing in the 1805-06 Drury Lane account book at a £1 5s weekly salary: the first, "Miss Howells", flourished only 1798-1800; the second, Fanny Howells, did not perform at Drury Lane until 1816. However, BD expresses no knowledge of "Miss Howells's" post-1800 career. Moreover, a £1 5s weekly salary would be appropriate for a singer. It therefore seems fair to categorise the relevant payments as "Singers" and to suggest that the recipient may well have been Bd's 1798-1800 "Miss Howells".
Singers £1 Internal Mrs. Coates
Singers £1 Internal Miss Selwin
Singers £2 10s Internal Chorus
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr. Wroughton Stage Manager & Actor
Supernumeraries £7 9s Internal Supernumeraries
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr. Dunn
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Peake Junr
Treasurers £12 Internal Mr. Peake
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Mr. Wyber
Musicians (Band) £63 3s Internal The Band
Musicians (Band) £10 Internal Mr. Shaw
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 4s Internal Mr. Brady
Dressers £11 5s Internal Dressers
Dressers £2 Internal Two Miss Smiths
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Mantuamaking £12 6s 3d Departmental Mantua's Bill
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr Banks
Tailoring £8 19s 9d Departmental Taylor's Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Mrs. & Mrs. Wilson
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £38 16s 8d Departmental Carpenters
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £9 5d Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Scene Painters £6 6s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Banks
Scene Painters £3 13s 6d Internal Meyrick Painter
Scene Painters £3 13s 6d Internal Smith Painter
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Rogers for Paint Pots
Candles (Tallow) £4 13s 6d External Tallow
Lighting (Other) £79 10s External Lighting Oil & Wax
Stone £8 12s 9d External Collins Mason
Bill Distribution £1 17s Internal Billstickers
Printing £23 10s External Lowndes Printer
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Management
Water Rate £6 6s External New River Water 1/2 Year to Midr.
Accounting and Payment Issues £1 External Chishome return'd being over Pd. at Door
Messengers and Porters £1 5s Internal Mr. R. Chatterley
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. West
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
Total £1,107 11s 4d