Saturday 16 May 1807

Business

Income

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. H. 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. Harlow
Actors £6 Internal Mrs. Johnstone
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 Donnelly
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 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. Broadhurst
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Hope
Dancers £1 10s Internal Mrs. Ryalls
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 £2 Internal Two Miss Dennetts
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Davies
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Green
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Twamley
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Horrobeaw Various spellings.
Dancers £5 Internal Mr. Montgomery
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Hartland
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 Internal Mr. Thompson
House Servants (Other) £35 17s Internal Servant's List
House Servants (Other) 15s Internal 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 14s 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 Internal Miss Menage
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Decamp
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Miss Kelly
Prompters £3 10s Internal Mr. Stokes
Prompters £5 Internal Mr. Powell
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Security £1 16s Internal 3. Watchmen
Security 14s Internal 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. Gibbons
Singers £2 Internal Mr. Dignum
Singers £3 Internal Mr. Miller
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Bond
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Parsons
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 £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 £2 Internal Miss Feron
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr. Wroughton Manager and Actor
Supernumeraries £23 18s 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 £12 11s 3d Internal Wyber Music Copying
Musicians (Band) £69 3s Internal The Band
Musicians (Organs) £4 4s Internal Kelly for the use of Organ Presumed to be a payment for playing, rather than providing, an organ, given the difficulty that would have been involved in moving an organ in and out of a theatre on a temporary basis.
Musicians (Other) £4 10s 6d Internal D. of Cambridge's Band
Musicians (Trumpets) £3 1s Internal Trumpets
Clothing Material (Foil) £7 15s External Fowlke for foil disc. 13/6
Clothing Material (Lace) £7 8s 7d External Archer & Bailey disct. -: 7: 10
Clothing Material (Leather) £9 External Footman Gilt Leather Disc. -: 9: -
Clothing Material (Wool) £44 12s 1d External Marchant disct. £7. 12. 0
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 4s Internal Mr. Brady
Dressers £12 3s Internal Dressers
Dressers £2 Internal Miss Smith & Sister
Dressers £1 8s 6d Internal Women Dressing Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Mantuamaking £10 13s 2d Departmental Mantua
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr. Banks Tailor
Tailoring £5 15s Departmental Tailor's Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Wilson
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £52 5s 2d Departmental Carpenters
Fireworks £1 6s 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 14s Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Properties £12 12s Internal Sharp Portrait Painter
Scene Painters £7 7s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr Banks
Candles (Tallow) £13 16s External Mr. White Tallow
Coal £50 External Jones Coals on Account
Glass £6 8s 9d External Soward Glaizer dis 6s/9d
Lighting (Other) £79 10s External Mr. Glossop Lightg.
Rope £40 External Buckingham Ropemaker
Turnery £11 2s 3d External Grove for Turnery dis. 11s/9d
Bill Distribution £1 17s Internal Billstickers
Printing £21 16s External Printer
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Management
Leases (Ground and Buildings) £50 External Bowley Old House two Years Rent
Benefit Payments £8 19s 8d Internal Mrs. Mountain's Benefit Balce.
Benefit Payments £151 10s 8d Internal Mr. Braham Benefit Do [Balce]
Books, Paper and Stationery £12 18s 6d External Clementi & Co. dist. 13s/6d
Artificial Flowers £7 6s 9d External Huggins Artificial flowers dis 7s/9d
Messengers and Porters £1 5s Internal Mr. Chatterley
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. West
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 Account at close 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 the Acct. at close 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
Play Licences £2 2s External License of Adelgitha
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Total £1,495 14s 4d