Saturday 3 May 1806

Plays

Performances
The Belle's Stratagem, The Forty Thieves
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£295 4s
Available Revenue
66%
Capacity
48%
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 £295 4s £219 9s £70 16s 6d £2 2s £2 16s 6d Odd Money
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £2 Mr Fisher
Stoppages 12s 6d Mrs Butler
Sub Total £2 12s 6d
Total £297 16s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Benefit Payments £128 2s 2d Internal Mr Bannister's Benefit Balce.
Lighting (Other) £79 10s External Mr. Glossop Lighting
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Management
Musicians (Band) £63 3s Internal The Band
Clothing Material (Decorations) £50 External Turner Spangles
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £49 5s 4d Departmental Carpenters
Actors £47 5s Internal Mrs. Jordan
Singers £42 Internal Madme. Storace
House Servants (Other) £35 17s Internal Servants List
Supernumeraries £31 11s 6d Internal Supernums.
Singers £30 Internal Mr. Braham
Metals £30 External Bennett Ironmonger
Scene Painters' Supplies £30 External Manby Colourman
Production Design (Other) £30 Internal A. Johnstone on Summer Acct.
Wardrobe Allowances (Performers) £26 5s Internal Madsle. Parisot on Acct. of Cloathes
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr. Wroughton Manager &c
Weaponry £25 External Roger Johnstone on Acct. for Sword Belts
Musicians (Other) £23 5s Internal D. of Cambridge's Band
Benefit Payments £23 6s 9d Internal Mrs. Mountain Benefit Do [Balce.]
Printing £22 2s External Printer's Bill
Actors £19 Internal Mr. Elliston
Actors £19 2s Internal Mr Bannister
Dancers £19 Internal Miss Parisot
Singers £16 Internal Mr. Kelly
Actors £16 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Siddons
Tailoring £16 8s 4d Departmental Taylor's Do. [Bill]
Actors £15 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Performers (Other) £15 Internal Miss Decamp Maria Theresa De Camp, who acted, sung and danced.
Actors £15 Internal Mrs. Powell
Actors £12 Internal Mr. Dowton
Singers £12 12s Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £12 12s Internal Mrs. Bland
Actors £12 Internal Miss Duncan
Dancers £12 Internal Mr. Degville
Treasurers £12 Internal Mr Peake
Mantuamaking £12 2s 3d Departmental Mantua
Scene Painters £12 Internal Williams for Greenwood's Exors
Actors £11 Internal Miss Pope
Dressers £11 14s Internal Dressers
Production Design (Other) £11 2s 4d Departmental Johnstone's
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Barrymore
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Collins
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Palmer
Actors £10 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Mathews
Musicians (Band) £10 Internal Mr. Shaw
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Candles (Tallow) £10 17s 3d External Tallow Chandler
Singers £10 Internal Chorus
Law £9 Internal Mr. Burgess
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Cherry
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Russell
Dancers £8 5s Internal Degville's Pupils
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Actors £7 Internal Mrs. Ansell
Cleaners £7 10s Internal Sweepers
Actors £7 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Dormer
Lamplighters £7 17s 6d Internal Lampmen
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Holland
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £6 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors £6 Internal Miss Mellon
Actors £6 Internal Mrs. B. Johnstone
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.
Scene Painters £6 6s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Musicians (Other) £6 10s Internal Dressler Trombone
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Bartley
Dancers £5 Internal Mrs. Sharp
Singers £5 Internal Mr. Miller
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Prompters £5 Internal Mr. Powell
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Dignum
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Welsh
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Cooke
Actors £4 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Fisher
Performers (Other) £4 Internal Miss Holloway
Dancers £4 10s Internal Mr. Jubert
Dancers £4 Internal Mr. G. Degville
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Upkeep and Refurbishments (Other) £4 9s 2d External Brown for Lime
Prompters £3 10s Internal Mr. Stokes
Singers £3 Internal Mr. Gibbons
Actors £3 10s Internal Mr. & Mrs. Maddocks
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Purser
Actors £3 Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £3 Internal Mrs. Scott
Actors £3 Internal Miss Boyce
Dancers £3 Internal Two Miss Bristoes
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
Musicians (Trumpets) £3 15s Internal Trumpets Extra
Musicians (Other) £3 Internal Flack Bugle Horns
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 Internal Mr. Thompson
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Mayle
Housekeeping £2 Internal Mrs. Burke
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Packer
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Wilson
Dressers £2 Internal Two Miss Smiths
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr. Banks Taylor
Singers £2 Internal Miss Kelly Extra Chorus
Turnery £2 12s External Scott for Turnery
Messengers and Porters £1 5s Internal Mr. R. Chatterley
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 4s Internal Mr. Brady
Singers £1 10s Internal Mr. Danby
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Caulfield
Actors £1 5s Internal Mr. Webb
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Mr. Evans
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
Actors £1 Internal Mast. Tokeley
Actors £1 10s Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Singers £1 10s Internal Mrs. Gardiner
Singers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Butler
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Miss Kelly
Singers £1 Internal Miss Saunders
Dancers £1 Internal Mrs. Wells
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Jones
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Menage
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Decamp
Singers £1 Internal Miss Selwin
Singers £1 Internal Mrs. Coates
Dancers £1 10s Internal Miss Watson
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Minton
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Barrett
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Taylor
Actors £1 5s Internal Miss Benson
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Daniels
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Brooker
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".
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. Johnstone
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Hope
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Vials
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Broadhurst
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Mr. R. Peake
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. West
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Mr. Wyber
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Musicians (Other) £1 Internal Tamplin Bugle Horn
Dressers £1 4s Internal Women Dressing Swans Presumably the "Swans" were machines or costumed performers, rather than real ones.
Security 14s Internal Rigge day Watch
Total £1,538 19s 1d