Saturday 21 December 1805

Plays

Performances
Lovers' Vows, The Weathercock
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£256 12s
Available Revenue
73%
Capacity
42%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in Lovers' Vows: Frederick, the Young Roscius; Amelia Wildenhaim, Mrs H. Siddons

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £256 12s £215 16s £37 16s £2 6s 14s Odd Money
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages 15s Mrs Gardiner Do. [on Acc]
Stoppages £22 Miss Mellon
Stoppages £28 6s 8d Fisher & Daughter on Acc
Sub Total £51 1s 8d
Total £307 13s 8d

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 £8 Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Palmer
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 £57 15s Internal Mrs. Jordan 4 Nts
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 £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 £4 Internal Mr. G. Degville
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 7s 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 Promp
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. Cooke
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Welsh
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 Selwin
Singers £1 Internal Mrs. Coates
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 £7 10s Internal Chorus
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr. Wroughton Manager and Actor
Supernumeraries £7 12s Internal Supernums.
Treasurers £12 Internal Mr. Peake
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr. Dunn
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Mr R Peake
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Mr Wyber
Musicians (Band) £63 3s Internal The Band
Musicians (Band) £10 Internal Mr. Shaw
Musicians (Harps) £4 14s 6d Internal Weippert Harp
Musicians (Other) £5 5s Internal Dressler Trombone
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
Dressers 10s Internal Shier Dresser Listed under "Petty Incidents."
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Mantuamaking £31 5d Departmental Mantua's Bill
Tailoring £2 Internal Banks Taylor
Tailoring £8 3s 6d Departmental Taylor's Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Wilson & Wife
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £59 8s 7d Departmental Carpenters
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £11 19s Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Scene Painters £6 6s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Banks
Scene Painters £4 19s 9d Internal Smith Painter
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Meyrick Do. [Painter]
Scene Painters £12 Internal Williams Judgment Debt of Greenwood
Scene Painters £50 Internal Do. [Williams Judgment] for Do. [Debt of Greenwood] on Account
Candles (Tallow) £15 11s 8d External Tallow Chandler
Construction £50 External Mr. Stuteley Builder on Account
Lighting (Other) £79 10s External Lighting Oil & Wax
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £22 10s External Printer
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Management
Charcoal 16s External Hunt for Charcoal Listed under "Petty Incidents."
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
Messengers and Porters 8s Internal Petty Incidents Appleby Listed under "Petty Incidents."
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.
Annuities £250 External Messrs. Clarke & Asler Annuitants five Years
Annuities £4 4s External Cost on Do. [Messrs. Clarke & Asler Annuitants five Years]
Insurance £222 10s External Insurance of £10,000 One Year in the Globe
Law £9 Internal Mr. Burgess
Renters' Shares £47 14s 10d External Renter Inset, indicating that it relates to the preceding entries, "Messrs. Clarke & Asler Annuitants five Years" and "Cost on Do.". Presumably Clarke and (H)asler were also renters, though all other payments to them recorded in the account books concerned only their annuities.
Authorial Payments (Other) £100 External Miss Chambers Author of School for Friends
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Tuck Tinman
Tinworkers £3 18s 4d Departmental Tuck for Tin and Assistant
Total £1,899 14s 1d