Saturday 18 January 1806

Plays

Performances
The Distressed Mother, The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphosed
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£316 16s
Available Revenue
57%
Capacity
52%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in The Distressed Mother: Orestes, the Young Roscius; Andromache, Mrs Ansell[?]; Hermione, Mrs Powelltheir 1st appearance in those characters

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £316 4s £258 1s 6d £51 13s 6d 18s £5 11s Odd Money
Door Receipts 12s 12s £0 £0 £0 P.B. [Private Boxes]
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £8 Mr Raymond
Stoppages £9 1s 9d Mr Marks
Stoppages £1 4s 4d Mr Cooke
Sub Total £18 6s 1d
Total £335 2s 1d

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 Fisher and Wife
Actors £3 10s Internal Maddocks and Wife
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. 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 £2 Internal Mr. Packer
Actors £1 5s Internal Miss Benson
Actors £47 5s Internal Mrs. Jordan 3 Nights
Actors £157 10s Internal Master Betty 3. Nights
Cleaners £7 10s Internal Sweepers
Cleaners 12s Internal Donnelly
Cleaners £1 2s 6d Internal Women cleaning the Theatre Xmas Eve
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 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
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 Internal Thompson
House Servants (Other) £35 17s Internal Servants List
House Servants (Other) 15s Internal Potts Hallkeeper
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 Prompr.
Prompters £2 3s 6d Departmental Powell Prompter's Bill
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Security £1 16s Internal Watchmen
Security 14s Internal Rigge day Watch
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 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 Mast. A 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 5s Internal Mr. Elliott
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 £15 Internal Chorus
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr. Wroughton Manager & Actor
Supernumeraries £16 15s Internal Supernumeraries
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 (Other) £3 10s 6d Internal D. of Cambridge's Band
Musicians (Trumpets) £4 10s Internal Trumpets Extra
Clothing Purchase (Legwear) £30 External Mr. Partridge Hosier
Clothing Purchase (Other) £2 8s Internal Wilson making Ruffs
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 £17 5s 4d Departmental Mantua Do [Bill]
Tailoring £2 Internal Banks Taylor
Tailoring £31 18s 9d Departmental Taylor's Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Wilson & Wife
Canvas £50 External Fowlks for Canvas
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £69 9s 4d Departmental Carpenters
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £12 9s Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Scene Painters £6 6s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Banks
Scene Painters £3 13s 6d Internal Smith Painter
Scene Painters £3 13s 6d Internal Meyrick Do. [Painter]
Scene Painters £4 4s Internal Marchbanks Do [Painter]
Scene Painters £24 Internal Williams for Greenwoods Judgment
Scene Painters' Supplies £18 8s 6d External Nodder for Pasteboard &c. 19: 7: 8 -: 19: 2
Candles (Tallow) £11 2s 9d External Tallow Chandler
Chimneysweeping £2 3s External Chimney Sweepers
Lighting (Other) £79 10s External Glossop Lighting
Lighting (Other) £78 17s 7d External White Extra Lightg. Balce. of Account
Metals £30 External Mr. Wilshen Goldbeater on Acct.
Metals £20 External Jackson Smith on Acct.
Rope £30 External Mr. Buckingham Ropemaker
Timber £50 External Elsom for Timber
Turnery £9 12s 4d External Wm. Morley for Turnery
Upkeep and Refurbishments (Other) £2 15s 2d External Brown for Lime
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £22 2s External Printer
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Management
Animals £18 9s 5d External Hodgkinson for Horse keep
Christmas Boxes £5 5s External The Bankers Clerks Do [Xmas Box]
Messengers and Porters £1 5s Internal Mr. R Chatterley
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal West
Messengers and Porters £1 5s Internal West Messinger
Royal Attendants £8 8s External Their Majestie's Servants Xmas Box
Royal Attendants £4 4s External The Prince & Princess of Wales's Do [Xmas Box]
Royal Attendants £4 4s External The Duke & Duchess of York's Do [Xmas Box]
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
Law £91 16s External Mr. Troward Atty. Law this Season
Authorial Payments (Other) £25 External Mr. Diomond Author of Youth Love & Folly
Authorial Payments (Other) £50 External Sleeping Beauty Author
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Tuck Tinman
Tinworkers £1 9s 4d External Tinman's Assistant
Total £1,898 10s