Saturday 19 April 1806

Plays

Performances
Barbarossa, The Forty Thieves
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£464 16s 6d
Available Revenue
70%
Capacity
76%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in Barbarossa: Achmet, the Young Roscius; Zaphira, Mrs Powell

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £464 16s 6d £376 7s 6d £70 5s £4 10s £13 14s Odd Money
Total £464 16s 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 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 Miss Boyce
Actors £3 Internal Mrs. Scott
Actors £1 10s Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Jones
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Dormer & Wife
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Packer
Actors £1 5s Internal Miss Benson
Actors £47 5s Internal Mrs. Jordan
Actors £105 Internal Mast. Betty two Nights
Cleaners £7 10s Internal Sweepers
Cleaners £1 13s Internal Sweepers Extra
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. Bezand
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Wells
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Austin
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Hope
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Johnstone
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Vials
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr Broadhurst
Dancers £13 15s Internal Degville's Pupils
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 £8 8s 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 14s Internal Rigge day Watch
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 Mast. 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 £15 Internal Chorus
Singers £1 5s Internal Extra Chorus Miss Kelly
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr Wroughton Manager & Actor
Supernumeraries £35 8s 6d Internal Supernums.
Treasurers £12 Internal Mr. Peake
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr. Dunn
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Mr. R Peake
Composers £52 10s External Kelly M. for Music of Forty Thieves
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Mr. Wyber
Music Copyists £13 17s 6d Internal Wyber Music Copyg
Musicians (Band) £63 3s Internal The Band
Musicians (Band) £10 Internal Mr. Shaw
Musicians (Harps) £3 3s Internal Weippert Harp
Musicians (Other) £34 7s Internal D. of Cambridge's Band
Musicians (Other) £2 5s Internal Tamplin Bugle Horn
Musicians (Trumpets) £4 10s Internal Trumpets
Clothing Material (Lace) £5 17s External Davies Laceman
Clothing Material (Leather) £15 12s External Footman for Gilt Leather
Clothing Material (Wool) £50 External Mr. Marchant Clothier Do [on Account]
Clothing Purchase (Legwear) £50 External Mr. Partridge Hosier on Account
Laundry and Dyeing 13s Departmental Blacking Shoes
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 4s Internal Mr. Brady
Hair, Beards and Wigs £2 19s 6d External Bond for Wigs
Dressers £11 14s Internal Dressers
Dressers £2 Internal Miss Smith & Sister
Dressers £1 18s Internal Women Dressing Camels The "Camels" seem to have been men costumed as camels, rather than real ones.
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Mantuamaking £72 4s 4d Departmental Mantua's Do [Bill]
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr. Banks Taylor
Tailoring £14 17s 3d Departmental Taylor's Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Wilson & Wife
Canvas £50 External Mr. Fowlks for Canvas
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £54 1s 11d Departmental Carpenters
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £12 19s 6d Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Scene Painters £6 6s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Banks
Scene Painters £12 Internal Williams for Greenwood
Candles (Tallow) £15 11s 8d External Tallow Chandler
Coal £50 External Mr. Jones for Coals on Account
Lighting (Other) £79 10s External Lighting by Mr. Glossop
Metals £30 External Jackson Smith on Account
Upholstery 17s External Johnston for Horsehair
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £22 2s External Printer
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Management
Leases (Ground and Buildings) £7 External Paul for Rent to Lady day
Animals £9 11s 8d External Mr. Hodgkinson for Horse keep
Benefit Payments £268 6s 6d Internal Madme. Storace Clear Benft. Money
Books, Paper and Stationery £3 14s External Winchester for Books
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
Messengers and Porters 12s 6d Internal West Messages
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
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Total £1,998 18s 4d