Saturday 26 October 1805

Plays

Performances
The Wheel of Fortune, The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphosed
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£120 8s
Available Revenue
30%
Capacity
20%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in The Wheel of Fortune: Governor Tempest, Mr Dowton; Mr Woodville, Mr Powell; Mr Penruddock, Mr Elliston; Mr Sydenham, Mr Barrymore; Weazel, Mr Mathews; Mrs Woodville, Mrs Powell; Emily Tempest, Miss Mellon;
Principal characters in The Devil to Pay: Jobson, Mr Bannister; Nell, Mrs Jordan

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £120 8s £78 14s £41 8s 6d 6d 5s Odd Money
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £2 10s 6d Mr Barrymore to complete
Sub Total £2 10s 6d
Total £122 18s 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 £16 Internal Mr. & Mrs. H. Siddons
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Russell
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 £4 Internal Mr. & Mrs. 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. Tokely
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 5s Internal Miss Benson
Actors £7 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Dormer
Actors £47 5s Internal Mrs. Jordan 3. Nights
Cleaners £7 10s Internal Sweepers
Cleaners 12s Internal Donnelly
Dancers £4 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 Two Miss Bristoes
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
Dancers £12 Internal Mr. Degville
Dancers £4 10s Internal Mr. Jubert
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 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
Prompters £1 11s 11d Departmental Powell Prompter William Powell was on a constant salary this season and had already been paid it this day, so this must have been a prompter's bill.
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Security £1 16s Internal Watchmen
Security 14s Internal 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 Internal Mr. Bond
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Fitzsimmons
Singers £42 Internal Madm. Storace
Singers £12 12s Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £12 12s Internal Mrs. Bland
Singers £1 10s Internal Mrs. Gardiner
Singers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Butler
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Elliott
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 £1 10s Internal Chorus [illeg]
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr. Wroughton Manager (Stage) & Actor
Supernumeraries £7 15s Internal Supernums.
Treasurers £12 Internal Mr. Peake
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr. Dunn
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Mr. R. Peake
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Wyber
Musicians (Band) £63 3s Internal The Band
Musicians (Band) £10 Internal Mr. Shaw
Musicians (Trumpets) £2 5s Internal Trumpets Extra
Laundry and Dyeing 8s Departmental Blacking Shoes
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 £18 9s 5d Departmental Mantua
Tailoring £2 Internal Banks Taylor
Tailoring £22 1s 8d Departmental Taylor's Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Wilson & Wife
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £63 9s 3d Departmental Carpenters
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £15 13s 6d Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Banks
Scene Painters £6 6s Internal Mr Greenwood
Scene Painters £5 5s Internal Meyrick Painter
Scene Painters £5 5s Internal Smith Painter
Scene Painters £2 17s Internal Morris Painter
Candles (Tallow) £11 11d External Tallow
Lighting (Other) £79 10s External Lighting Oil & Wax
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £21 6s External Printer
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Managemt.
Charcoal £1 4s External Hunt for Charcoal
Messengers and Porters £1 5s Internal Mr. Chatterley
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal 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 £1,157 17s 8d