Saturday 15 March 1806

Plays

Performances
Douglas, A House to be Sold
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£258 8s
Available Revenue
55%
Capacity
42%
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 £258 8s £197 10s 6d £58 6d 15s £2 2s Odd Money
Total £258 8s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Lighting (Other) £53 External Lightg. Oil & Wax
Management £42 Internal Principal Board of Management
Musicians (Band) £42 2s Internal The Band
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £34 4s 6d Departmental Carpenters
Actors £31 10s Internal Mrs. Jordan
Metals £30 7s 6d External Jackson Smith Do [dist. deducted] 4. 5. 8
Clothing Purchase (Legwear) £30 External Partridge Hosier on Acct.
Singers £28 Internal Madme. Storace
Clothing Material (Decorations) £26 5s 6d External Chay for Feathers dist. deducted 1. 7. 6
House Servants (Other) £23 18s Internal Servants List
Glass £21 11s External Soward Glaizer Do [dist. deducted] 2. 3. 6
Singers £20 Internal Mr. Braham
Scene Painters £20 Internal Banks Painter Summer Account
Printing £19 19s External Printer
Stage Managers £16 16s Internal Mr Wroughton Manager & Actor
Upholstery £13 19s 6d External Smith & Key Upholders Do [dist. deducted] -. 14. 6 [illeg]
Actors £12 14s 8d Internal Mr. Bannister
Actors £12 13s 4d Internal Mr. Elliston
Dancers £12 13s 4d Internal Madsle. Parisot
Treasurers £12 Internal Mr. Peake
Turnery £11 1s 6d External Morley for Turnery
Singers £10 13s 4d Internal Mr. Kelly
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Actors £10 13s 4d Internal Mr. & Mrs. H. Siddons
Performers (Other) £10 Internal Miss Decamp Maria Theresa De Camp, who acted, sung and danced.
Actors £10 Internal Mrs. Powell
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Newspaper Advertisements £10 7s External Morning Star
Law £9 Internal Mr Burgess
Mantuamaking £9 5s 5d Departmental Mantua
Musicians (Other) £9 1s Internal D. of Cambridge's Band
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Dowton
Singers £8 8s Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £8 8s Internal Mrs. Bland
Actors £8 Internal Miss Duncan
Dancers £8 Internal Mr. Degville
Production Design (Other) £8 15s Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Supernumeraries £8 6s Internal Supernumeraries
Actors £7 6s 8d Internal Miss Pope
Dressers £7 16s Internal Dressers
Lamplighters £7 Internal Lampmen
Singers £7 10s Internal Chorus
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr Barrymore
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Collins
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Palmer
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Mathews
Musicians (Band) £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Shaw
Scene Painters £6 6s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Music Copyists £6 9s 9d Internal Wyber for Music Copying
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Cherry
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Russell
Cleaners £5 Internal Sweepers
Prompters £5 Internal Mr Powell Prompter
Candles (Tallow) £5 7s 3d External Tallow Chandler
Musicians (Other) £5 5s Internal Taylor Playg. Flagelet
Clothing Material (Lace) £5 18s 6d External Archer Laceman dist. deducted -. 6. 6 [illeg]
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Mr Wewitzer
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Holland
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £4 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Ansell
Actors £4 Internal Miss Mellon
Actors £4 Internal Mrs. B. Johnstone
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Dormer
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.
Tailoring £4 8s 1d Departmental Taylor's Bill
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Mr Bartley
Dancers £3 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Sharp
Dancers £3 Internal Mr. Jubert
Singers £3 6s 8d Internal Mr. Miller
Security £3 Internal Constables
Security £3 10s Internal Soldiers
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Banks
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr. Dunn
House Servants (Other) £3 3s Internal Watchmen Potts & Donnelly
Housekeeping £3 3s Internal Millington Arrears Millington does not appear in BD, but the list of 1807 Drury Lane engagements (Folger W. b. 82) calls him the superintendant of stores, and the account books record occasional payments to him for miscellaneous objects and materials. Thus he is here understood to have been a housekeeper.
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Dignum
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Welsh
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Cooke
Prompters £2 6s 8d Internal Mr. Stokes
Actors £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Fisher
Singers £2 Internal Mr. Gibbons
Actors £2 6s 8d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Maddocks
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Purser
Performers (Other) £2 13s 4d Internal Miss Holloway
Actors £2 Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £2 Internal Mrs. Scott
Actors £2 Internal Miss Boyce
Dancers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. G. Degville
Dancers £2 Internal Two Miss Bristoes
Dressers £2 Internal Two Miss Smiths
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Wilson & Wife
Tailoring £2 Internal Banks Taylor
Musicians (Other) £2 2s Internal Reeve for Playing the Bells
Musicians (Trumpets) £2 5s Internal Trumpets Extra
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Thompson
Dancers £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Male
Singers £1 Internal Mr. Danby
Housekeeping £1 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Burke
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Singers £1 Internal Mrs. Gardiner
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Packer
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Watson
Dancers £1 Internal Mr. Goodman
Dancers £1 Internal Mr. Hartland
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Mr. R Peake
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Tuck Tinman
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal West
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Wyber
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Musicians (Other) £1 2s 6d Internal Flack Bugle Horn
Messengers and Porters 16s 8d Internal Mr. R. Chatterley
Hair, Beards and Wigs 16s Internal Mr Brady
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Caulfield
Actors 16s 8d Internal Mr. Webb
Performers (Other) 16s 8d Internal Mr. Evans
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
Actors 13s 4d Internal Mast. Tokeley
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mrs. Butler
Performers (Other) 16s 8d Internal Miss Kelly
Singers 13s 4d Internal Miss Saunders
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Wells
Actors 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Jones
Performers (Other) 13s 4d Internal Miss Menage
Performers (Other) 13s 4d Internal Miss Decamp
Singers 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Coates
Singers 13s 4d Internal Miss Selwin
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Miss Minton
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mrs. Barrett
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Miss Taylor
Actors 16s 8d Internal Miss Benson
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Miss Daniels
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mrs. Brooker
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".
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
Security 14s Internal Rigge day Watch
Laundry and Dyeing 11s Departmental Blacking Shoes
Messengers and Porters 19s Internal West Messinger
Total £967 9s 6d