Saturday 13 December 1806

Plays

Performances
The Way to Keep Him, He's Dear, Dear To Me, Tho' He's Far Away, Tekeli; or, The Siege of Montgatz
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£147 17s 6d
Available Revenue
56%
Capacity
24%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in The Way to Keep Him: Sir Bashful Constant, Mr Bannister; the Widow Belmour, Miss Duncan; Mrs Lovemore, Mrs H. Siddons; Lady Constant, Miss Mellon; Muslin, Miss Pope.
In Act II, "He's dear, dear to me, tho' he's far away", by Miss Duncan

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £147 17s 6d £103 12s 6d £43 8s 6d 10s 6s 6d Odd Money
Total £147 17s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £20 Internal Mr. Elliston
Actors £19 2s Internal Mr Bannister
Actors £15 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Actors £13 Internal Mr. Dowton
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Barrymore
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Palmer
Actors £16 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Siddons
Actors £11 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Mathews
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Cherry
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Russell
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Bartley
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Eyre
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Carles
Actors £5 Internal Mr Penley
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Purser
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Fisher
Actors £6 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors £3 10s Internal Mr. & Mrs. Maddocks
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Everard
Actors £1 5s Internal Mr. Webb
Actors £1 5s Internal Mr. Tokeley
Actors £15 Internal Mrs. Powell
Actors £14 Internal Miss Duncan
Actors £11 Internal Miss Pope
Actors £7 Internal Miss Mellon
Actors £6 Internal Mrs. Johnstone
Actors £6 Internal Mrs. Harlow
Actors £6 Internal Mrs. Ansell
Actors £3 Internal Miss Boyce
Actors £3 Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £3 Internal Mrs. Scott
Actors £1 10s Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Jones
Cleaners £7 10s Internal Sweepers
Cleaners 12s Internal Donnelly Sweeper
Dancers £12 Internal Mr. Degville
Dancers £4 10s Internal Mr Jubert
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Mayle
Dancers £19 Internal Madsle. Parisot
Dancers £5 Internal Mrs. Sharp
Dancers £3 Internal Miss Gayton
Dancers £1 10s Internal Miss Bristoe
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Brooker Mrs. Brooker?.
Dancers £1 Internal Mrs. Wells
Dancers £1 10s Internal Mr. Goodman
Dancers £1 10s Internal Mr. Austin
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Placid
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Wells
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Hope
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Broadhurst
Dancers £1 10s Internal Miss Daniels
Dancers £1 10s Internal Mrs. Barrett
Dancers £1 10s Internal Miss Watson
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Minton
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Willson
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Mercerot
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Davies
Dancers £2 Internal Two Miss Dennetts
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Green
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Twamley
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Arabeau
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 Internal Mr. Thompson
House Servants (Other) £35 7s Internal Servants List
House Servants (Other) 15s Internal Potts Hallkeeper
Housekeeping £2 Internal Mr. Millington 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.
Housekeeping £2 Internal Mrs. Burke
Housekeeping 13s Internal Millington Listed under "Petty Incidents". 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.
Lamplighters £7 17s 6d Internal Lampmen
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Mr. Evans
Performers (Other) £4 Internal Miss Holloway
Performers (Other) £1 10s Internal Miss Lacey
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Miss Kelly
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Menage
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Decamp
Performers (Other) £10 10s Internal Mr. Cromwell for Performance
Prompters £3 10s Internal Mr. Stokes
Prompters £5 Internal Mr. Powell Promptr.
Prompters £3 Departmental Powell Prompter's Bill
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Security £1 16s Internal 3. Watchmen
Security 14s Internal Rigge day Watch
Singers £48 Internal Mr. Braham
Singers £16 Internal Mr. Kelly
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Welsh
Singers £4 Internal Mr Cook
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Gibbon
Singers £2 Internal Mr. Dignum
Singers £3 Internal Mr. Miller
Singers £1 10s Internal Mr. Danby
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Caulfield
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Rhodes
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Elliott
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Fitzsimmons
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Bond
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Parsons
Singers £15 Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £15 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 £5 Internal Chorus
Singers £3 Internal Boys Singing in the Travellers
Singers £18 Internal Mr. Braham to complete the 1st. 6 days Salry.
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr Wroughton
Supernumeraries £43 15s 6d Internal Supernumeraries
Treasurers £12 Internal Mr. Peake
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr. Dunn
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Mr. R. Peake
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Mr. Wyber
Music Copyists £14 3s 1d Internal Wyber & others Copying Music
Musicians (Band) £69 3s Internal The Band
Musicians (Other) £4 10s 6d Internal D. of Cambridge's Band
Musicians (Other) £8 15s Internal Pandeans
Musicians (Side Drums) £2 5s Internal Mortimer Side Drums
Musicians (Trumpets) £4 10s Internal Trumpets Extra
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 4s Internal Mr. Brady
Dressers £12 3s Internal Dressers
Dressers £2 Internal Two Miss Smiths
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Mantuamaking £17 7d Departmental Mantua's Do [Bill]
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr. Banks Tailor
Tailoring £12 10s 6d Departmental Tailor's Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Wilson & Wife
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £58 16s 4d Departmental Carpenters
Fireworks £1 7s 6d External Hunt for Fireworks Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £15 16s Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Scene Painters £7 7s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Banks
Scene Painters £6 16s 6d Internal Smith Painter
Scene Painters £12 Internal Williams for Greenwood
Candles (Tallow) £13 16s External Mr. White Tallow
Lighting (Other) £79 10s External Mr. Glossop Lightg.
Metals 17s 6d External Thompson Blacksmith Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Metals £1 3s External Broad Ironmonger Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £22 6s External Lowndes Printer
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Management
Animals £13 10s 9d External Hodgkinson for Horsekeep
Books, Paper and Stationery 16s External Books by Dunn Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Messengers and Porters £1 5s Internal Mr. Chatterley
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. West
Messengers and Porters 17s Internal Appleby Messinger Listed under "Petty Incidents".
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.
Funds and Trusts £2 External Return'd into the Acct. at end of Season Payments so described were made regularly in the 1806-07 season, almost always for sums under £5. A note appears at the end of the account book: "Sundry Sums of Money on the Pay List unappropriated during the Season brought forward & Paid to the Account of the Trustees", beneath which, in another hand, is written, "What do these amount to", then a signature, "RW.". These payments thus seem similar to the regular "Unappropriated" payments of the following season, 1807-08.
Funds and Trusts £4 15s External Return'd into Acct. at end of Season Payments so described were made regularly in the 1806-07 season, almost always for sums under £5. A note appears at the end of the account book: "Sundry Sums of Money on the Pay List unappropriated during the Season brought forward & Paid to the Account of the Trustees", beneath which, in another hand, is written, "What do these amount to", then a signature, "RW.". These payments thus seem similar to the regular "Unappropriated" payments of the following season, 1807-08.
Law £9 Internal Mr. Burgess
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Tinworkers £3 7d Departmental Tuck Tinman's Bill & Assistant
Total £1,193 8s 4d