Saturday 14 December 1805

Plays

Performances
The School for Friends, The Weathercock
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£215 13s 6d
Available Revenue
58%
Capacity
35%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £215 13s 6d £164 7s £48 19s 6d £1 19s 8s Odd Money
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £1 10s Mrs Gardiner Do. [on Acc]
Sub Total £1 10s
Total £217 3s 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 £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 £7 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Dormer
Actors £1 5s Internal Miss Benson
Actors £78 15s Internal Mrs. Jordan 6. Nights
Cleaners £7 10s Internal Sweepers
Cleaners 12s Internal Donnelly
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Mayle
Dancers £5 Internal Mrs. Sharp
Dancers £1 Internal Mrs. Wells
Dancers £12 Internal Mr. Degville
Dancers £4 10s Internal Mr. Jubert
Dancers £4 Internal Mr. G. Degville
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) £35 17s Internal Servants' List
House Servants (Other) 15s Internal Potts
Housekeeping £2 Internal Mrs. Burke
Lamplighters £7 10s 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 Prompr
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
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. Elliott
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 Mrs. Butler
Singers £1 Internal Miss Saunders
Singers £1 Internal Mrs. Coates
Singers £1 Internal Miss Selwin
Singers £5 Internal Mr. Miller
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 £10 Internal Chorus
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr. Wroughton Manager & Actor
Supernumeraries £15 16s 6d Internal Supernums.
Treasurers £12 Internal Mr. Peake
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr. Dunn
Treasurers £2 10s Internal Mr R Peake
Composers £25 External Mr. King for the Music of Do. [Nelson's Glory]
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Mr. Wyber
Musicians (Band) £63 3s Internal The Band
Musicians (Band) £10 Internal Mr. Shaw
Musicians (Side Drums) £1 17s 6d Internal Side Drums
Musicians (Trumpets) £3 Internal Trumpets Extra
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 4s Internal Mr. Brady
Dressers £11 14s Internal Dressers
Dressers £2 Internal Two Miss Smiths
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Mantuamaking £65 4d Departmental Mantua's Do [Bill]
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr Banks Taylor
Tailoring £16 7d Departmental Taylor's Do [Bill]
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Wilson & Wife
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £66 5s 3d Departmental Carpenters
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £12 13s 8d Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Scene Painters £6 6s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr Banks
Scene Painters £4 9s 3d Internal Smith Painter
Scene Painters £4 9s 3d Internal Meyrick Do [Painter]
Scene Painters £12 Internal Greenwood's Judgment by Williams Atty.
Candles (Tallow) £10 15s 5d External Rablus Tallow
Lighting (Other) £79 10s External Lighting Oil & Wax
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £23 6s External Printer Do [Bill]
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Management
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
Authorial Payments (Other) £50 External Mr. Alingham Author of Weathercock
Authorial Payments (Other) £100 External Miss Chambers Author of School for Friends
Authorial Payments (Other) £50 External Author of Sleeping Beauty A space has been left before this entry, corresponding to "Miss Chambers" in the above entry. But since the piece in question was written by Sir Lumley St George Skeffington, the space seems to indicate that the author's name was unknown or intentionally undisclosed, rather than that Marianne Chambers wrote this piece. There is also an illegible note in the left-hand margin, perhaps alluding to Skeffington's name or anonymity.
Authorial Payments (Other) £25 External Mr. Cumberland Do. [Author of] Nelson's Glory
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Tinworkers £1 8s External Tinman's Assistant
Total £1,492 9d