Saturday 24 January 1807

Plays

Performances
False Alarms; or, My Cousin, The Children in the Wood
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£207 5s
Available Revenue
35%
Capacity
34%
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 £207 5s £157 2s £48 11s 18s 14s Odd Money
Total £207 5s

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. Raymond
Actors £8 Internal Mr Cherry
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 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
Actors £5 Internal Mr. & Miss Ray
Cleaners £7 10s Internal Sweepers
Cleaners 12s Internal Mr. Donnelly
Dancers £12 Internal Mr. Degville
Dancers £4 10s Internal Mr. Jubert
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Male
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 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 Mrs. Ryall
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 Mercerott
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Davis
Dancers £2 Internal Two Miss Dennetts
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Green
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Twamley
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Arabeau
Dancers £2 6s Internal Mr. Hartland
Dancers £5 Internal Mr. Mongomory
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 Internal Mr. Thompson
House Servants (Other) £35 17s Internal Servants List
House Servants (Other) 15s Internal Mr. Potts
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
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
Prompters £3 10s Internal Mr. Stokes
Prompters £5 Internal Mr. Powell
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Security £1 16s Internal 3. Watchmen
Security 14s Internal Mr. Rigge
Singers £48 Internal Mr. Braham
Singers £16 Internal Mr. Kelly
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Welsh
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Cooke
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
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr Wroughton Manager & Actor
Supernumeraries £24 2s Internal Supernumeras.
Treasurers £12 Internal Mr. Peake
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr. Dunn
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Mr. R. Peake
Instrument Purchases and Repairs 10s 6d External Stoddard for use of Piano Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Mr. Wyber
Musicians (Band) £69 3s Internal The Band
Musicians (Harps) £12 1s 6d Internal Weippart Harp
Musicians (Other) £8 15s Internal Pandeans
Musicians (Side Drums) £2 5s Internal Mortimer side Drums
Musicians (Trumpets) £2 5s Internal Trumpets
Clothing Material (Decorations) £36 6d External Chay for Feathers Disc. 1. 17. 6
Clothing Material (Fur) £12 16s External Mr. Poland Furrs 13: 4
Clothing Material (Lace) £22 9s 6d External Davies Laceman 1: 3. 6
Clothing Material (Leather) £15 8s External Footman Gilt Leather Do [Disc.] 16: 0
Clothing Material (Other) £37 2s 7d External Lund for Baize 1: 19: 0
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 4s Internal Mr. Brady
Hair, Beards and Wigs £9 10s Internal Brady Barbor -. 10
Dressers £12 3s Internal Dressers
Dressers £2 Internal Two Miss Smiths
Dressers 18s Internal Spiers Dresser Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Mantuamaking £20 9s 6d Departmental Mantua's
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr Banks Tailor
Tailoring £10 4s 6d Departmental Tailor's Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Wilson
Canvas £2 5s 7d Internal Dawe Sewing Canvas Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £50 15s 6d Departmental Carpenters
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £10 4s Departmental Johnstone's Room
Production Design (Other) £40 Internal Johnstone Summer Saly.
Production Design (Other) £28 7s Internal Underwood Summer Do. [Saly.]
Scene Painters £7 7s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Banks
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Smith Painter
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Marchbanks Painter
Scene Painters £12 Internal Williams for Greenwood
Scene Painters £20 Internal Greenwood Summer Salary
Scene Painters £28 7s Internal Banks Painter Do. [Summer Saly.]
Candles (Tallow) £6 18s External White Tallow
Lighting (Other) £79 10s External Glossop Lighting
Rope £19 5s 2d External Buckingham Ropes 1. 0: 3
Turnery £28 19s 7d External Grove for Turnery Recd. 20 1: 10. 6
Upkeep and Refurbishments (Other) £9 8s 11d External Fowlkes for Aprons
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £24 External Lowndes Printer
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Management
Water Rate £6 6s External New River Water 1/2 Year to Xmas
Animals £7 5d External Hodgkinson Horsekeep
Charcoal £1 10s External Brookes Charcoal Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Artificial Flowers £23 4s External Huggins Artificials Flowers 1. 4. 6
Food and Drink 10s External Brandy for Men in Camels 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
Pottery 9s 1d External Earthen Ware Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Unknown £1 10s Unknown Box for Tekeli Listed under "Petty Incidents". Unclear what type of box, i.e. a crate, a tree, the hire of a private box in the auditorium, or some other type.
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 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
Law £2 2s External Thomas for Fees Listed under "Petty Incidents". Almost certainly related to James Thomas, annuitant.
Authorial Payments (Other) £100 External Author of False Alarms
Play Licences £4 4s External Licenses of Enchanters & False Alarms
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Tinworkers £1 External Tinman's Assistant
Total £1,556 7s 10d