Saturday 23 November 1805

Plays

Performances
The Haunted Tower, The Weathercock
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£293 16s
Available Revenue
61%
Capacity
48%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in The Haunted Tower: Baron of Oakland, Mr Dowton; Baron de Courcy, Mr Holland; Lord William, Mr Braham; Edward, Mr Bannister; Lewis, Mr Mathews; Lady Elinor de Courcy, Mrs Mountain; Adela, Signora Storace;
The Weathercock: in Act III will be introduced "From Shades of Night" by Mr Braham; and a new Bravura (composed by Mr Woelfel), by Mrs Mountain

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £293 16s £216 5s £74 9s 15s £2 7s Odd Money
Total £293 16s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Lighting (Other) £79 10s External Lightg. Oil & Wax
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Managt.
Musicians (Band) £63 3s Internal The Band
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £60 16s 3d Departmental Carpenters
Authorial Payments (Other) £50 External Messrs. Pye & Arnold (Prior Claim) A Prior Claim was a play by Henry James Pye and Samuel James Arnold.
Authorial Payments (Other) £50 External Mr. Allingham (Weathercock)
Actors £47 5s Internal Mrs. Jordan
Singers £42 Internal Madme. Storace
House Servants (Other) £35 17s Internal Servants List
Singers £30 Internal Mr. Braham
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr. Wroughton Manager and Actor
Music Copyists £25 17s 1d Internal Wyber & others Music Copy.
Printing £22 10s External Printer
Tailoring £21 7s Departmental Taylor's Bill
Mantuamaking £20 12s Departmental Mantua
Actors £19 2s Internal Mr. Bannister
Actors £19 Internal Mr. Ellistone
Dancers £19 Internal Madsle Parisot
Singers £16 Internal Mr. Kelly
Actors £16 Internal Mr. & Mrs. H. Siddons
Actors £15 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Performers (Other) £15 Internal Miss Decamp Maria Theresa De Camp, who acted, sung and danced.
Actors £15 Internal Mrs. Powell
Actors £12 Internal Mr. Dowton
Singers £12 12s Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £12 12s Internal Mrs. Bland
Actors £12 Internal Miss Duncan
Dancers £12 Internal Mr. Degville
Treasurers £12 Internal Mr. Peake
Production Design (Other) £12 14s Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Singers £12 10s Internal Chorus
Actors £11 Internal Miss Pope
Dressers £11 14s Internal Dressers
Candles (Tallow) £11 7s 4d External Rablus Tallow
Books, Paper and Stationery £11 15s 7d External Dale for Stamps &c.
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Barrymore
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Collins
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Palmer
Actors £10 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Mathews
Musicians (Band) £10 Internal Mr. Shaw
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Singers £10 Internal Miller Mr. Two Weeks not on pay List
Law £9 Internal Mr. Burgess
Supernumeraries £9 9s 6d Internal Supernums.
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Cherry
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Russell
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Actors £7 Internal Mrs. Ansell
Actors £7 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Dormer
Cleaners £7 10s Internal Sweepers
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Holland
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £6 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors £6 Internal Miss Mellon
Actors £6 Internal Mrs. B. Johnstone
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.
Scene Painters £6 6s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Lamplighters £6 16s 6d Internal Lampmen
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Bartley
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Fisher & daughter
Dancers £5 Internal Mrs. Sharp
Singers £5 Internal Mr. Miller
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Prompters £5 Internal Mr. Powell Prompter
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Dignum
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Welsh
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Cooke
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Fisher & Wife
Performers (Other) £4 Internal Miss Holloway
Dancers £4 10s Internal Mr. Jubert
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Prompters £3 10s Internal Mr. Stokes
Singers £3 Internal Mr. Gibbons
Actors £3 10s Internal Mr. & Mrs. Maddocks
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Purser
Actors £3 Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £3 Internal Mrs. Scott
Actors £3 Internal Miss Boyce
Dancers £3 Internal Two Miss Bristoes
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Banks
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr. Dunn
Musicians (Other) £3 10s Internal D. of York's Band
Scene Painters £3 13s 6d Internal Smith Painter
Scene Painters £3 13s 6d Internal Meyrick Do [Painter]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 Internal Mr. Thompson
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Mayle
Housekeeping £2 Internal Mrs. Burke
Dressers £2 Internal Two Miss Smiths
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Mr. Wilson & Wife
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr. Banks Taylor
House Servants (Other) £2 1s Internal Potts Donnelly & Rigge
Musicians (Trumpets) £2 5s Internal Trumpets Extra
Messengers and Porters £1 5s Internal Mr. R. Chatterley
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 4s Internal Mr Brady
Singers £1 10s Internal Mr. Danby
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Caulfield
Actors £1 5s Internal Mr. Webb
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Elliott
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Mr. Evans
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Rhodes
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Fitzsimmons
Singers £1 Internal Mr Bond
Actors £1 Internal Mr. Tokeley
Actors £1 10s Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Singers £1 10s Internal Mrs. Gardiner
Singers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Butler
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Miss Kelly
Singers £1 Internal Miss Saunders
Dancers £1 Internal Mrs. Wells
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Jones
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Menage
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Decamp
Singers £1 Internal Mrs. Coates
Singers £1 Internal Miss Selwin
Dancers £1 10s Internal Miss Watson
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Minton
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Barrett
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Taylor
Actors £1 5s Internal Miss Benson
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Daniels
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Brooker
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".
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
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Mr. R. Peake
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. West
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Mr. Wyber
Security £1 16s Internal Watchmen
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Musicians (Tabors and Pipes) £1 2s 6d Internal Tabor & Pipe
Musicians (Other) £1 17s 6d Internal Flack Bugle Horns
Tinworkers £1 9s 4d Departmental Tuck Tinman's Assistant
Messengers and Porters 7s 6d Internal Appleby Messinger's Bill
Total £1,299 12s 7d