Saturday 1 March 1806

Plays

Performances
Meropé, The Doctor and the Apothecary
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£240 18s 6d
Available Revenue
37%
Capacity
39%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in Merope: Dorilas, the Young Roscius; Merope, Mrs Powell

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £240 12s 6d £181 10s 6d £56 £1 7s £1 15s Odd Money
Door Receipts 6s 6s £0 £0 £0 Private Boxes
Total £240 18s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £12 14s 8d Internal Mr. Bannister
Actors £12 13s 4d Internal Mr. Elliston
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Dowton
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Barrymore
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Collins
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Palmer
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Cherry
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £10 13s 4d Internal Mr. & Mrs. H. Siddons
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Russell
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Mathews
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Holland
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Mr Bartley
Actors £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Fisher
Actors £2 6s 8d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Maddocks
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Purser
Actors £4 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors 16s 8d Internal Mr. Webb
Actors 13s 4d Internal Mast. Tokeley
Actors £10 Internal Mrs. Powell
Actors £8 Internal Miss Duncan
Actors £7 6s 8d Internal Miss Pope
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Ansell
Actors £4 Internal Miss Mellon
Actors £4 Internal Mrs. B. Johnstone
Actors £2 Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £2 Internal Mrs. Scott
Actors £2 Internal Miss Boyce
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Actors 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Jones
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Dormer
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Packer
Actors 16s 8d Internal Miss Benson
Actors £31 10s Internal Mrs. Jordan
Actors £157 10s Internal Master Betty 3. Nights
Cleaners £5 Internal Sweepers
Dancers £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Mayle
Dancers £3 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Sharp
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Wells
Dancers £8 Internal Mr. Degville
Dancers £3 Internal Mr. Jubert
Dancers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. G. Degville
Dancers £12 13s 4d Internal Madsle. Parisot
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Watson
Dancers £2 Internal Two Miss Bristoes
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Miss Minton
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mrs. Barratt
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Miss Taylor
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Miss Daniels
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mrs. Brooker
Dancers £1 Internal Mr. Goodman
Dancers £1 Internal Mr. Hartland
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Wells
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Austin
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Johnstone
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Hope
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Vials
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Broadhurst
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Thompson
House Servants (Other) £23 18s Internal Servant's List
House Servants (Other) £3 3s Internal Watchmen Potts & Donnelly
Housekeeping £1 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Burke
Lamplighters £7 3s 6d Internal Lampmen
Performers (Other) 16s 8d Internal Mr. Evans
Performers (Other) £10 Internal Miss Decamp Maria Theresa De Camp, who acted, sung and danced.
Performers (Other) £2 13s 4d Internal Miss Holloway
Performers (Other) 16s 8d Internal Miss Kelly
Performers (Other) 13s 4d Internal Miss Menage
Performers (Other) 13s 4d Internal Miss Decamp
Prompters £2 6s 8d Internal Mr. Stokes
Prompters £5 Internal Mr. Powell Prompr.
Security £3 Internal Constables
Security £3 10s Internal Soldiers
Security 14s Internal Rigge day Watch
Singers £20 Internal Mr Braham
Singers £10 13s 4d Internal Mr. Kelly
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Dignum
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr Welsh
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £2 Internal Mr. Gibbons
Singers £1 Internal Mr. Danby
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Caulfield
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Elliott
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Rhodes
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Fitzsimmons
Singers 13s 4d Internal Mr Bond
Singers £28 Internal Madme. Storace
Singers £8 8s Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £8 8s Internal Mrs. Bland
Singers £1 Internal Mrs. Gardiner
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mrs. Butler
Singers 13s 4d Internal Miss Saunders
Singers 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Coates
Singers 13s 4d Internal Miss Selwin
Singers £3 6s 8d Internal Mr. Miller
Singers 16s 8d 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 £5 Internal Chorus
Singers £32 11s Internal Chorus in the Cento
Stage Managers £16 16s Internal Mr. Wroughton Manager & Actor
Supernumeraries £7 6d Internal Supernumeraries
Treasurers £12 Internal Mr. Peake
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr. Dunn
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Mr. R. Peake
Instrument Purchases and Repairs £8 14s External Lincoln repairing the Organ
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Mr. Wyber
Musical Services and Supplies (Other) £1 2s 6d Internal Music Porter
Musicians (Band) £42 2s Internal The Band
Musicians (Band) £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Shaw
Musicians (Other) £9 1s Internal D. of Cambridge's Band
Musicians (Other) £2 2s Internal Reeve Playing Bells
Musicians (Trumpets) £2 5s Internal Trumpets Extra
Clothing Material (Decorations) £50 External Turner Spangles
Clothing Material (Wool) £50 External Marchant Clothier
Hair, Beards and Wigs 16s Internal Mr. Brady
Dressers £7 16s Internal Dressers
Dressers £2 Internal Two Miss Smiths
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Mantuamaking £4 13s 10d Departmental Mantua
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr. Banks Taylor
Tailoring £5 6s 3d Departmental Taylor's Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Wilson
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £34 17s Departmental Carpenters
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £8 15s Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Scene Painters £6 6s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr Banks
Scene Painters £16 Internal Williams for Greenwood two Weeks
Scene Painters' Supplies £50 External Butler Colourman
Candles (Tallow) £4 19s External Tallow Chandler
Lighting (Other) £53 External Lighting Oil & Wax
Timber £50 External Elsom for Timber
Turnery 18s External Morley Turnery
Upkeep and Refurbishments (Other) £3 10s External Brown for Lime
Upkeep and Refurbishments (Other) £8 4s 7d External Foulkes for Aprons
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £19 19s External Printer
Management £42 Internal Principal Board of Management
Messengers and Porters 16s 8d Internal Mr. R. Chatterley
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. West
Annuities £4 4s 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
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Total £1,201 17s 8d