Saturday 25 January 1806

Plays

Performances
The School for Friends, The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£279 14s 6d
Available Revenue
53%
Capacity
46%
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 £279 8s 6d £220 9s 6d £56 4s 6d 18s £1 16s 6d Odd Money
Door Receipts 6s 6s £0 £0 £0 Private Boxes
Total £279 14s 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 Master 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 £3 Internal Mr Packer
Actors £1 5s Internal Miss Benson
Actors £47 5s Internal Mrs. Jordan
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 £1 10s Internal Miss Bristoe
Dancers £1 10s Internal Miss C. Bristoe
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 Mr. Potts
Housekeeping £2 Internal Mrs. Burke
Lamplighters £9 11s 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 Prompter
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Security £1 16s Internal The Watchmen
Security 14s Internal Rigge day Watch
Singers £30 Internal Mr Braham
Singers £16 External 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 5s Internal Mr. Elliott
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 Miss 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 Actor & Manager
Supernumeraries £16 15s 6d Internal Supernumeraries
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 (Other) £6 Internal Trombone by Dressler
Musicians (Other) £13 3s Internal D. of Cambridge's Band
Musicians (Trumpets) £3 15s 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 £29 1s 7d Departmental Mantua
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr Banks Taylor
Tailoring £52 13s 4d Departmental Taylor's Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Wilson
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £26 5s Internal Madsle. Parisot on Acct. as Pr. Engagt. for Dresses
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £88 4s 9d Departmental Carpenters
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £46 16s 5d Departmental Gunby Carpenters work Extra
Fireworks £1 4s External Hunt for Fireworks
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnston
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £15 5s 6d Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Properties £7 7s External Mr. Sharp for a Picture of Ld. Nelson
Scene Painters £6 6s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr Banks
Scene Painters £4 4s Internal Smith Painter
Scene Painters £4 4s Internal Meyrick Do. [Painter]
Scene Painters £1 11s 6d Internal Marchbanks Do. [Painter]
Scene Painters £12 Internal Greenwood's Judgment Debt
Scene Painters' Supplies £40 External Mr. Butler Colours
Candles (Tallow) £11 17s 6d External Mr. Rablus Tallow Chandler
Coal £50 External Michell Coals
Glass £20 External Soward Glaizer
Lighting (Other) £79 10s External Mr. Glossop Lighting
Stone £15 External Collins Mason
Turnery £11 6s External Askwith for Turnery
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £22 16s External Printer
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.
Annuities £50 External Thomas Annuitant to
Law £9 Internal Mr. Burgess
Authorial Payments (Other) £100 External Mr. Cherry Author of Travellers
Authorial Payments (Other) £25 External Author of Youth Love & Folly
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Tinworkers £2 14s 8d Departmental Tuck Tinman's Assistant
Total £1,652 4s 9d