Saturday 31 January 1807

Plays

Performances
The Travellers; or, Music's Fascination, The Children in the Wood
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£294
Available Revenue
41%
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 £294 £221 3s £65 16s 6d 9s £6 11s 6d Odd Money
Total £294

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £16 13s 4d Internal Mr. Elliston
Actors £15 18s 4d Internal Mr. Bannister
Actors £12 10s Internal Mr. Johnstone
Actors £10 16s 8d Internal Mr. Dowton
Actors £8 6s 8d Internal Mr. Barrymore
Actors £8 6s 8d Internal Mr. Palmer
Actors £13 6s 8d Internal Mr. & Mrs. H. Siddons
Actors £9 3s 4d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Mathews
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Cherry
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Russell
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £5 16s 8d Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Actors £5 16s 8d Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Bartley
Actors £4 3s 4d Internal Mr. Eyre
Actors £4 3s 4d Internal Mr. Carles
Actors £4 3s 4d Internal Mr. Penley
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Mr. Purser
Actors £2 10s Internal Mr. Fisher
Actors 5s Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors £2 18s 4d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Maddocks
Actors £1 13s 4d Internal Mr. Everard
Actors £1 10d Internal Mr. Webb
Actors £1 10d Internal Mr. Tokeley
Actors £12 10s Internal Mrs. Powell
Actors £11 13s 4d Internal Miss Duncan
Actors £9 3s 4d Internal Miss Pope
Actors £5 16s 8d Internal Miss Mellon
Actors £5 Internal Mrs. Johnstone
Actors £5 Internal Mrs. Harlow
Actors £5 Internal Mrs. Ansell
Actors £2 10s Internal Miss Boyce
Actors £2 10s Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £2 10s Internal Mrs. Scott
Actors £1 5s Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Actors 16s 8d Internal Mrs. Jones
Actors £4 3s 4d Internal Mr. & Miss Ray
Cleaners £6 5s Internal Sweepers
Cleaners 12s Internal Mr. Donnelly
Dancers £10 Internal Mr. Degville
Dancers £3 15s Internal Mr. Jubert
Dancers £1 13s 4d Internal Mr. Mayle
Dancers £15 16s 8d Internal Madsle. Parisot
Dancers £4 3s 4d Internal Mrs. Sharp
Dancers £2 10s Internal Miss Gayton
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Bristoe
Dancers £1 10d Internal Mrs. Brooker
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mrs. Wells
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Goodman
Dancers £1 10d Internal Mr. Hope
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Austin
Dancers £1 10d Internal Mr. Placid
Dancers £1 10d Internal Mr. Wells
Dancers £1 10d Internal Mr. Broadhurst
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Daniels
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Barrett
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Watson
Dancers £1 10d Internal Miss Minton
Dancers £1 10d Internal Mrs. Willson
Dancers £1 10d Internal Miss Mercerott
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Miss Davies
Dancers £1 13s 4d Internal Two Miss Dennetts
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Miss Green
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Miss Twamley
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Miss Arabeau
Dancers £4 3s 4d Internal Mr. Montgomery
Dancers £1 13s 4d Internal Mr. P. Hartland
Dancers £21 Internal Degville Pupils
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 13s 4d Internal Mr. Thompson
House Servants (Other) £29 17s 6d Internal Servants List
House Servants (Other) 15s Internal Mr Potts
Housekeeping £1 13s 4d 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 £1 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Burke
Lamplighters £7 14s Internal Lampmen
Performers (Other) £1 10d Internal Mr. Evans
Performers (Other) £3 6s 8d Internal Miss Holloway
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Miss Lacey
Performers (Other) £1 10d Internal Miss Kelly
Performers (Other) 16s 8d Internal Miss Menage
Performers (Other) 16s 8d Internal Miss Decamp
Prompters £2 18s 4d Internal Mr. Stokes
Prompters £5 Internal Mr. Powell Prompt.
Security £4 7s 6d Internal Soldiers
Security £3 15s Internal Constables
Security £1 16s Internal 3. Watchmen
Security 14s Internal Mr. Rigge
Singers £40 Internal Mr. Braham
Singers £13 6s 8d Internal Mr. Kelly
Singers £3 6s 8d Internal Mr. Welsh
Singers £3 6s 8d Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £3 6s 8d Internal Mr. Gibbons
Singers £1 13s 4d Internal Mr. Dignum
Singers £2 10s Internal Mr. Miller
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Danby
Singers £1 10d Internal Mr. Caulfield
Singers £1 10d Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £1 10d Internal Mr. Rhodes
Singers £1 10d Internal Mr. Elliott
Singers £1 10d Internal Mr. Fitzsimmons
Singers £1 10d Internal Mr Bond
Singers £1 10d Internal Mr. Parsons
Singers £12 10s Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £12 10s Internal Mrs. Bland
Singers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Gardiner
Singers £1 10d Internal Mrs. Butler
Singers 16s 8d Internal Miss Saunders
Singers 16s 8d Internal Miss Selwin
Stage Managers £21 Internal Mr. Wroughton Manager & Actor
Supernumeraries £26 15s 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
Musicians (Band) £57 12s 6d Internal The Band
Musicians (Other) £3 10s Internal Pandeans
Musicians (Side Drums) £2 5s Internal Side Drums
Musicians (Tabors and Pipes) £7 7s Internal Tabor & Pipe
Musicians (Trumpets) £2 5s Internal Trumpets
Clothing Material (Decorations) £50 External Mr. Turner Spangles
Clothing Material (Decorations) £3 4s External Hartland feathers Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Clothing Material (Wool) £100 External Mr. Marchant Clothier
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 Internal Mr. Brady
Dressers £10 2s 6d Internal Dressers
Dressers £2 Internal Two Miss Smiths
Dressers 10s Internal Donnelly Dressing Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Mantuamaking £28 18s 5d Departmental Mantua
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr Banks Tailor
Tailoring £12 17s 9d Departmental Tailor's Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Willson
Canvas £50 External Mr. Fowlkes Canvas
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £40 12s 8d Departmental Carpenters
Fireworks £1 7s 6d External Hunt fireworks Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £9 2s Departmental Johnstone's Room
Scene Painters £7 7s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Banks
Scene Painters £4 4s Internal Smtih Painter
Scene Painters £4 4s Internal Marchbanks Painter
Scene Painters £10 Internal Mr Williams for Greenwood
Scene Painters' Supplies £50 External Mr. Butler Colours
Candles (Tallow) £13 16s External Mr. White Tallow
Lighting (Other) £66 5s External Mr. Glossop
Metals £3 4s 9d External Moore & Brice Ironmongers
Metals £50 External Mr Bennett Ironmonger
Metals £50 External Mr. Jackson Smith
Timber £100 External Mr. Elsom Timber
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £20 15s External Lowndes Printer
Management £52 10s Internal Principal Board of Management
Charcoal £2 2s External Brook Charcoal Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Messengers and Porters £1 10d Internal Mr. Chatterley
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr West
Messengers and Porters 14s Internal Appleby Messages Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Royal Attendants £4 4s External Princess of Wales and Duchess of York's Servants
Unknown £8 8s Unknown Clerks Tax and Surcharge
Annuities £5 5s 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 £1 13s 4d 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 £3 19s 2d 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. H. Burgess
Play Licences £2 2s External License of Assignation
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck
Tinworkers £1 18s 8d External Tinman's Assistant
Total £1,449 19s 7d