Saturday 15 February 1806

Plays

Performances
The Revenge, Matrimony
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£224 17s
Available Revenue
51%
Capacity
37%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in The Revenge: Zanga (1st time), the Young Roscius; Leonora, Mrs Powell
Principal characters in Matrimony: Delaval, Mr Elliston; Clara, Mrs Jordan

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £224 17s £164 18s £58 11s 6d 9s 18s 6d Odd Money
Total £224 17s

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 £6 Internal Mr. Holland
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £10 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Mathews
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 Mrs. 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 Mrs. Dormer & Mr.
Actors £2 Internal Mr Packer
Actors £1 5s Internal Miss Benson
Actors £47 5s Internal Mrs. Jordan
Actors £157 10s Internal Master Betty 3. Nights
Cleaners £7 10s Internal Sweepers
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 Mr. Thompson
House Servants (Other) £35 17s Internal Servants' List
House Servants (Other) £3 3s Internal Watchmen, Potts, & Donnelly
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 Prompter
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Security 14s Internal Rigge day Watch
Security £9 9s Internal Townshend and other attendg. on Mast. Betty's Nights
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 Actor & Manager
Supernumeraries £12 10s 6d 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 (Other) £13 11s 6d Internal D. of Cambridge's Band
Musicians (Other) £12 1s 6d Internal Reeves Playing Bells
Musicians (Trumpets) £4 10s Internal Trumpets Extra
Clothing Material (Wool) £50 External Marchant Clothier
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 4s Internal Mrs. Brady
Dressers £11 14s Internal Dressers
Dressers £2 Internal Two Miss Smiths
Dressers 8s Internal Mrs. Shiers Extra Dresser
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Mantuamaking £11 11s 4d Departmental Mantua's Do [Bill]
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr. Banks Taylor
Tailoring £7 2s 9d Departmental Taylor's Do [Bill]
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Wilson
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £26 5s Internal Parisot for Dresses
Canvas £4 12s 6d Internal Dawe Sewing Canvas
Canvas £50 External Fowlkes on Account Canvas
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £44 2s 6d Departmental Carpenters
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £12 16s 6d Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Scene Painters £6 6s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Banks
Scene Painters £12 Internal Mr. Williams for Greenwood's Judgmt.
Candles (Tallow) £10 4s 5d External Tallow Chandler
Lighting (Other) £79 10s External Lighting Oil & Wax
Timber £50 External Elsom Timber
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £22 14s External Printer's Do [Bill]
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Management
Benefit Payments £107 19s External Balance of Mrs. King's Benefit
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
Law £30 External Burgess Law Expences
Authorial Payments (Other) £25 External Youth Love & Folly
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Total £1,648 17s 6d