Saturday 21 February 1807

Plays

Performances
The Curfew, The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphosed
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£358 12s 6d
Available Revenue
49%
Capacity
59%
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 £358 12s 6d £290 5s £56 19s £1 10s £9 18s 6d Odd Money
Total £358 12s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £13 6s 8d Internal Mr. Elliston
Actors £12 14s 8d Internal Mr Bannister
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Actors £8 13s 4d Internal Mr. Dowton
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Barrymore
Actors £6 13s 4d Internal Mr. Palmer
Actors £7 6s 8d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Mathews
Actors £10 13s 4d Internal Mr. & Mrs. H. Siddons
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Cherry
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Russell
Actors £5 6s 8d Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Bartley
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Mr. Eyre
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Mr. Carles
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Mr. Penley
Actors £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Purser
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Fisher
Actors £2 6s 8d Internal Mr. & Mrs. Maddocks
Actors £4 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Everard
Actors 16s 8d Internal Mr. Webb
Actors 16s 8d Internal Mr. Tokeley
Actors £10 Internal Mrs. Powell
Actors £9 6s 8d Internal Miss Duncan
Actors £7 6s 8d Internal Miss Pope
Actors £4 13s 4d Internal Miss Mellon
Actors £4 Internal Mrs. Johnstone
Actors £4 Internal Mrs. Harlow
Actors £4 Internal Mrs. Ansell
Actors £2 Internal Miss Boyce
Actors £2 Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £2 Internal Mrs. Scott
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Actors 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Jones
Actors £3 6s 8d Internal Mr. & Miss Ray
Cleaners £5 Internal Sweepers
Cleaners 12s Internal Donnelly
Dancers £8 Internal Mr. Degville
Dancers £3 Internal Mr. Jubert
Dancers £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Mayle
Dancers £12 13s 4d Internal Madsle. Parisot
Dancers £3 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Sharp
Dancers £2 Internal Miss Gaton
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Bristoe
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mrs. Brooke
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Wells
Dancers £1 Internal Mr. Goodman
Dancers £1 Internal Mr. Austin
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Placid
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Hope
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Wells
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Broadhurst
Dancers £1 Internal Mrs. Ryall
Dancers £1 Internal Mrs. Barrett
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Watson
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Miss Minton
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Mrs. Wilson
Dancers 16s 8d Internal Miss Mercerott
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Miss Davis
Dancers £1 6s 8d Internal Two Miss Dennetts
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Miss Green
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Miss Twamley
Dancers 13s 4d Internal Miss Horabeau
Dancers £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Hartland
Dancers £3 6s 8d Internal Mr. Montgomery
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Thompson
House Servants (Other) £23 18s Internal Servants List
House Servants (Other) 15s Internal Potts
Housekeeping £1 6s 8d 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 6s 8d Internal Mrs. Burke
Housekeeping £25 17s 3d Departmental Fosbrook Balce. of Accounts A different hand has added a scarcely-legible note, to either this or the following entry. It may read "Trustees"; if so, the categorisation as "Housekeeping", "Departmental" is probably incorrect. However, this seems to have been Fosbrook's final payment (at least, until the conflagration of Drury Lane), so perhaps the note indicates his departure.
Lamplighters £7 3s 6d Internal Lampmen
Performers (Other) 16s 8d Internal Mr. Evans
Performers (Other) £2 13s 4d Internal Miss Holloway
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Lacey
Performers (Other) 16s 8d Internal Miss Kelly
Performers (Other) 13s 4d Internal Miss Menage
Performers (Other) 13s 4d Internal Miss Decamp
Prompters £2 6s 8d Internal Mr. Stokes
Prompters £5 Internal Mr. Powell
Security £3 Internal Constables
Security £3 10s Internal Soldiers
Security £1 16s Internal 3. Watchmen
Security 14s Internal Mr. Rigge
Singers £32 Internal Mr. Braham
Singers £10 13s 4d Internal Mr. Kelly
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Welsh
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £2 13s 4d Internal Mr. Gibbons
Singers £1 6s 8d Internal Mr. Dignum
Singers £2 Internal Mr. Miller
Singers £1 Internal Mr. Danby
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Caulfield
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Rhodes
Singers 16s Internal Mr. Elliott
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Fitzsimmons
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Bond
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mr. Parsons
Singers £10 Internal Mrs. Bland
Singers £10 Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £1 Internal Mrs. Gardiner
Singers 16s 8d Internal Mrs. Butler
Singers 13s 4d Internal Mrs. Saunders
Singers 13s 4d Internal Miss Selwin
Singers £5 Internal Chorus
Stage Managers £16 16s Internal Mr. Wroughton Manager & Actor
Supernumeraries £13 4s Internal Supernumeraries
Treasurers £8 Internal Mr. Peake
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr. Dunn
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Mr. R. Peake
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Mr. Wyber
Musicians (Band) £46 2s Internal The Band
Musicians (Harps) £8 8s Internal Weippert Harp
Musicians (Other) £9 19s 6d Internal Reeve Playing Bells
Musicians (Other) £6 15s Internal Dressler Trombone
Musicians (Other) £4 10s 6d Internal Military Band
Musicians (Trumpets) £4 10s Internal Trumpets Extra
Clothing Purchase (Other) 18s Internal Willson ruffs Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Hair, Beards and Wigs 16s Internal Mr. Brady
Hair, Beards and Wigs £7 13s 6d Internal Brady for Wigs
Dressers £8 2s Internal Dressers
Dressers £2 Internal Two Miss Smiths
Dressers 16s Internal Shiers & Appleby Dressers Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Mantuamaking £18 1s 1d Departmental Mantua
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr. Banks Tailor
Tailoring £9 12s 9d Departmental Tailor's Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Wilson
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £39 4s 10d Departmental Carpenters
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £9 10s Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Scene Painters £7 7s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Banks
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Meyrick Painter
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Smith Painter
Candles (Tallow) £13 16s External Mr. White Tallow
Chimneysweeping £2 11s External Ellis sweeping Chimnies Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Lighting (Other) £53 External Mr. Glossop Lighting
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £20 10s External Lowndes Printer
Management £42 Internal Principal Board of Management
Accounting and Payment Issues 6s External The Revd. E. Steward return'd Money last Nt. A different hand has added a scarcely-legible note, to either this or the preceding entry. It may read "Trustees".
Books, Paper and Stationery £3 11s 11d External Stokes Books &c for Stage use
Charcoal £1 4s External Charcoal Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Messengers and Porters 16s 8d Internal Mr. Chatterley
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. West
Messengers and Porters 10s Internal Appleby Messages Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Messengers and Porters £1 13s 10d Internal West Do. [Messages] Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Annuities £4 4s 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 6s 8d 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 3s 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.
Law £6 Internal Mr. Burgess
Writers of Parts £13 16s 2d Internal Do. [Stokes] Copying Parts
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Total £852 11s 4d