Saturday 30 May 1807

Plays

Performances
The Curfew, The Young Hussar; or, Love and Mercy
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£103 18s 6d
Available Revenue
22%
Capacity
17%
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 £103 18s 6d £63 8s 6d £37 7s 6d £2 8s 14s 6d Odd Money
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Uncategorised £89 5s Deducted by the Trustees for seventeen days for an Order of the Court of Chancery of Sequestration of Mr. Sheridan's Theatrical Allowance [Recorded with expenses. See MSS scan]
Sub Total £89 5s
Total £193 3s 6d

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Leases (Ground and Buildings) £500 External Mr Winchester for a House in Drury Lane
Lighting (Other) £79 10s External Mr Glossop
Musicians (Band) £69 3s Internal The Band
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Management
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £52 5s 9d Departmental Carpenters
Coal £50 External Jones on Account of Coals
Timber £50 External Elsom on Account of Timber
Clothing Material (Decorations) £50 External Turner on Account of Spanges
Singers £48 Internal Mr. Braham
House Servants (Other) £35 17s Internal Servants List
Supernumeraries £31 5s 6d Internal Supernumeraries
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr. Wroughton Manager & Actor
Printing £24 19s External Lowndes Printer
Dancers £22 15s Internal Degville's Pupils
Actors £20 Internal Mr. Elliston
Actors £19 2s Internal Mr. Bannister
Dancers £19 Internal Madsle. Parisot
Singers £16 Internal Mr. Kelly
Actors £16 Internal Mr. & Mrs. H. Siddons
Actors £15 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Actors £15 Internal Mrs. Powell
Singers £15 Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £15 Internal Mrs. Bland
Actors £14 Internal Miss Duncan
Actors £13 Internal Mr. Dowton
Dancers £12 Internal Mr. Degville
Dressers £12 3s Internal Dressers
Law £12 Internal Mr Burgess
Actors £11 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Mathews
Actors £11 Internal Miss Pope
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Barrymore
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Palmer
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Candles (Tallow) £10 18s 6d External Mr White Tallow
Production Design (Other) £9 14s Departmental Johnstone's Room
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Cherry
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Russell
Mantuamaking £8 1s 2d Departmental Mantua
Musicians (Other) £8 1s Internal D. of Cambridge's Band
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Actors £7 Internal Miss Mellon
Cleaners £7 10s Internal Sweepers
Scene Painters £7 7s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Singers £7 10s Internal Chorus
Lamplighters £7 17s 6d Internal Lampmen
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Bartley
Actors £6 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors £6 Internal Mrs. Harlow
Actors £6 Internal Mrs. Johnstone
Actors £6 Internal Mrs. Ansell
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.
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Eyre
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Carles
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Penley
Dancers £5 Internal Mrs. Sharp
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Actors £5 Internal Mr. & Miss Ray
Dancers £5 Internal Mr. Montgomery
Prompters £5 Internal Mr. Powell
Dancers £4 10s Internal Mr. Jubert
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Welsh
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Gibbons
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Purser
Performers (Other) £4 Internal Miss Holloway
Funds and Trusts £4 15s External Return'd into 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.
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Treasurers £4 Internal Mr. Peake
Tailoring £4 2s 5d Departmental Tailor's Bill
Musicians (Trumpets) £4 10s Internal Trumpets
Prompters £3 10s Internal Mr. Stokes
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Fisher
Actors £3 10s Internal Mr. & Mrs. Maddocks
Singers £3 Internal Mr. Miller
Actors £3 Internal Miss Boyce
Dancers £3 Internal Miss Gayton
Actors £3 Internal Miss Tidswell
Actors £3 Internal Mrs. Scott
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr. Banks
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Treasurers £3 Internal Mr. Dunn
Musicians (Harps) £3 3s Internal Weippert Harp
Musicians (Other) £3 12s Internal Pandeans
Housekeeping £3 12s 1d Departmental Burke for Extra's Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Musical Services and Supplies (Other) £3 13s 6d Internal Buckinger Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Singers £2 Internal Mr. Dignum
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Mayle
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 Internal Mr. Thompson
Actors £2 Internal Mr. Everard
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
Funds and Trusts £2 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.
Dancers £2 Internal Two Miss Dennetts
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Hartland
Singers £2 Internal Miss Feron
Dressers £2 Internal Miss Smith & Sister
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr. Banks
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Willson
Musicians (Side Drums) £2 5s Internal Side Drum
Messengers and Porters £1 5s Internal Mr. Chatterley
Actors £1 5s Internal Mr. Webb
Actors £1 5s Internal Mr. Tokeley
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr Bond
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Parsons
Singers £1 10s Internal Mr. Danby
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Caulfield
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Mr. Evans
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Rhodes
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Elliott
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Fitzsimmons
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 4s Internal Mr Brady
Actors £1 10s Internal Mrs. Cuyler
Dancers £1 10s Internal Miss Bristoe
Performers (Other) £1 10s Internal Miss Lacey
Singers £1 10s Internal Mrs. Gardiner
Singers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Butler
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Brooker
Performers (Other) £1 5s Internal Miss Kelly
Singers £1 Internal Miss Saunders
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Jones
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Menage
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Decamp
Singers £1 Internal Miss Selwin
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. Barrett
Dancers £1 10s Internal Miss Watson
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Minton
Dancers £1 5s Internal Miss Mercerott
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Willson
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Davies
Dancers £1 10s Internal Mrs. Ryalls
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Green
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Twamley
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Horrobeau
Treasurers £1 10s Internal Mr. R. Peake
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Mr. West
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Mr. Wyber
Security £1 16s Internal Watchmen
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Unknown £1 5s 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.
Fireworks £1 9d External Hunt for fireworks Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Chimneysweeping £1 10s 6d External Ellis Chimney Sweeper Listed under "Petty Incidents".
House Servants (Other) 15s Internal Potts
Cleaners 12s Internal Donnelly
Security 14s Internal Rigge
Dressers 15s Internal Donnelly Dressg. Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Dressers 19s Internal Women Dressg. Children Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Total £1,760 2d