Saturday 30 April 1808

Plays

Performances
The World, No Song No Supper
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£158 10s
Available Revenue
N/A
Capacity
26%
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 £158 10s £113 16s £44 1s 6d 6s 6s 6d Odd money
Total £158 10s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £28 Internal Mr. Elliston
Actors £19 2s Internal Mr. Bannister
Actors £15 Internal Mr. Johnstone
Actors £14 Internal Mr. Dowton
Actors £16 Internal Mr. & Mrs. H. Siddons
Actors £14 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Mathews
Actors £10 Internal Mr. Palmer
Actors £9 Internal Mr. Russell
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Raymond
Actors £8 Internal Mr. Decamp
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Powell
Actors £7 Internal Mr. Wewitzer
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Penley
Actors £6 Internal Mr. Holland
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Purser
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Eyre
Actors £4 Internal Mr. Putnam
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Fisher
Actors £6 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors £6 Internal Mr. & Miss Ray
Actors £3 10s Internal Mr. & Mrs. Maddocks
Actors £1 10s Internal Mr. Tokeley
Actors £1 5s Internal Mr. Webb
Actors £30 Internal Mrs. Jordan
Actors £15 Internal Mrs. Powell
Actors £15 Internal Miss Duncan
Actors £11 Internal Miss Pope
Actors £7 Internal Miss Mellon
Actors £6 Internal Mrs. Harlow
Actors £4 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 £1 Internal Miss Mortimer
Actors £30 Internal Mrs. Jordan Extra
Cleaners £7 10s Internal Sweepers
Cleaners 12s Internal Donnelly
Dancers £18 Internal Mr. Degville
Dancers £8 Internal Mr. Laurent
Dancers £4 10s Internal Mr. Jubert
Dancers £4 Internal Mr. Fairbrother
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Hartland
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Mayle
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mr. Cranfield
Dancers £5 Internal Mrs. Sharp
Dancers £4 Internal Miss Gayton
Dancers £2 Internal Miss Bristoe
Dancers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Brooker
Dancers £1 Internal Mrs. Wells
Dancers £3 Internal Goodman & Austin Listed under "Men Dancers".
Dancers £2 10s Internal Hope & Vials Listed under "Men Dancers".
Dancers £2 10s Internal Garbois & Wells Listed under "Men Dancers".
Dancers £3 Internal Ryals & Barrett Listed under "Women Dancers".
Dancers £2 15s Internal Watson & Minton Listed under "Women Dancers".
Dancers £2 10s Internal Boyce & Willson Listed under "Women Dancers".
Dancers £3 Internal Two Dennetts & Green Listed under "Children".
Dancers £3 Internal Davis Horribeau & Twamley Listed under "Children".
Dancers 5s Internal Mr. Cranfield Do [previous to being on Pay List]
Doorkeepers and Officekeepers £2 Internal Mr. Thompson
Employees (Other) £3 Internal Mr. & Mrs. R. Chatterley
Employees (Other) £2 2s Internal Mr. Simonet BD vol. 14, p. 78, states that this recipient was F(rancois?) Simonet, employed "probably as a musician". However, the Simonets were mostly a family of dancers, and payments to "Mr. Simonet" this season were made regularly, separate to payments to the band, so they cannot be confidently categorised.
Employees (Other) £4 18s Internal Mr. Simonet previous to being on Pay List BD vol. 14, p. 78, states that this recipient was F(rancois?) Simonet, employed "probably as a musician". However, the Simonets were mostly a family of dancers, and payments to "Mr. Simonet" this season were made regularly, separate to payments to the band, so they cannot be confidently categorised.
House Servants (Other) £35 14s Internal Servant's List
House Servants (Other) 15s Internal Potts
House Servants (Other) £1 Internal Mast. Lee
House Servants (Other) £3 Internal Master Lee Do [previous to being on Pay List]
Housekeeping £2 Internal [blank entry] Apparently a salary payment, corresponding to Mr Millington's salary and position in the payroll. The recipient continues to be paid but remains unnamed until the end of the season. 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. However, the engagement list also suggests that Millington's employment had terminated by the end of the season, so perhaps the payments to an unnamed recipient actually went to someone else who had taken over his role.
Housekeeping £2 Internal Mrs. Burke
Lamplighters £10 9s 6d Internal Lampmen
Performers (Other) £3 Internal Mr. Robert
Performers (Other) £1 10s Internal Mr. Evans
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Mas Wallach Master Wallach is described as "Chorus" in the 1807 Drury Lane engagement list (Folger W. b. 82), but he also acted in child's roles.
Performers (Other) £2 Internal Miss Kelly
Performers (Other) £2 Internal Miss Lacey
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Miss Menage
Performers (Other) £4 Internal Mr. Robert Do [previous to being on Pay List]
Prompters £3 10s Internal Mr. Stokes
Prompters £6 Internal Mr Powell Prompt.
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Security £1 16s Internal 3. Watchmen
Security 14s Internal Rigge day Watch
Singers £39 Internal Mr. Braham
Singers £8 Internal Mr. Kelly
Singers £5 Internal Mr. Smith
Singers £5 Internal Mr. Gibbon
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Welsh
Singers £3 Internal Mr. Miller
Singers £2 Internal Mr. Dignum
Singers £1 10s Internal Mr. Danby
Singers £1 10s Internal Mr. Rhodes
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Cooke
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Fitzsimmons
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Caulfield
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Elliott
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Parsons
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr Bond
Singers £1 Internal Mast. West Master West is described as "Chorus" in the 1807 Drury Lane engagement list (Folger W. b. 82), but he may also have acted in child's roles.
Singers £15 Internal Mrs. Mountain
Singers £15 Internal Mrs. Bland
Singers £15 Internal Signa. Storace
Singers £9 Internal Miss Lyons
Singers £4 Internal Madme. Daponte
Singers £3 Internal Mrs. Corri
Singers £3 Internal Mrs. St. John
Singers £2 Internal Miss Feron
Singers £1 10s Internal Mrs. Gardiner
Singers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Butler
Singers £1 Internal Miss Selwin
Singers £12 10s Internal Chorus
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr Wroughton Manager & Actor
Supernumeraries £50 12s 6d Internal Supernumeraries
Supernumeraries £1 1s Internal Carpenter Extra for climbing the Tree in Caractacus Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Treasurers £15 Internal Mr Peake
Treasurers £5 Internal Mr. Dunn
Treasurers £2 Internal Mr. R. Peake
Composers £40 External Mr. Bishop Composer of Music in Caractacus
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Mr. Wyber
Musicians (Band) £69 13s Internal The Band
Musicians (Harps) £4 4s Internal Weippert Harp
Musicians (Side Drums) £2 12s 6d Internal Side Drums
Clothing Material (Decorations) £50 External Turner for Spangles
Clothing Material (Fur) £50 External Schneider for Furrs Presumably Messieurs Poland & Schneider, the furriers whom whom DL explicitly paid on 24 February 1809, and whom the Post Office Annual Directory (1808), p. 227 placed at 351 Strand. However, it should be noted that the same directory identified a "Poland J. G.", fur manufacturer, at Oxford Street (p. 227), and a "Schneider & Son", skinners and furriers, at 4 Holborn Bars, and a "Schneider John & Co.", Russia merchants, at 44 Finbury Square.
Clothing Material (Wool) £50 External Walker Woolendraper
Hair, Beards and Wigs £1 4s Internal Mr Brady
Dressers £12 12s Internal Dressers
Dressers £2 Internal Two Miss Smiths
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein
Mantuamaking £25 17s 6d Departmental Mantua's Bill
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr. Banks Tailor
Tailoring £13 4d Departmental Tailor's Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Willson
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £74 4s Departmental Carpenters
Fireworks £1 11s 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) £23 5s 5d Departmental Johnstone's Room
Scene Painters £8 8s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr Banks
Scene Painters £20 Internal Greenwood Sumr. Salary
Scene Painters' Supplies £50 External Butler Colours
Weaponry £19 14s 6d External Gridler Sword Cutler dis 3. 2. 9
Candles (Tallow) £10 8s External Mr. Allen Tallow
Coal £50 External Jones for Coals
Construction £100 External Stuteley Builder
Faggots £6 15s External Weller for Brushwood
Lighting (Other) £82 10s External Mr White Lighting
Metals £50 External Jackson Smith
Timber £50 External Mr. Elsom Timber
Turnery £17 14s 3d External Grove for Turnery dis -. 18. 6
Upkeep and Refurbishments (Other) £1 17s 8d External Brown Lime Listed under "Petty Incidents".
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Printing £18 1s External Lowndes Printer
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Management
Animals £12 17s 3d External Hodgkinson for Horsekeep dis -: 13. 6
Benefit Payments £130 16s Internal Mrs. Jordan Benefit Ballance
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 £5 13s External Unappropriated
Law £9 Internal Mr Burgess
Authorial Payments (Other) £100 External Author of Kais
Authorial Payments (Other) £100 External Author of the World
Authorial Payments (Other) £50 External Author of Caractacus
Authorial Payments (Other) £50 External Author of Young Hussar
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Total £2,242 16s 5d