Saturday 21 May 1808

Plays

Performances
The Inconstant; or, The Way to Win Him, The Mayor of Garratt
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£137 9s 6d
Available Revenue
N/A
Capacity
23%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Notes
Principal characters in The Inconstant: Young Mirabel, Mr. Elliston; Bisarre, Mrs. Jordan.

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £137 9s 6d £89 5s £47 4s 6d 9s 11s Odd money
Total £137 9s 6d

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 £16 Internal Mr. & Mrs. H. Siddons
Actors £14 Internal Mr. Dowton
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. Holland
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Eyre
Actors £5 Internal Mr. Purser
Actors £6 Internal Mr Penley
Actors £4 Internal Mr Putnam
Actors £3 Internal Mr. Fisher
Actors £3 10s Internal Mr. & Mrs. Maddocks
Actors £6 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Sparks
Actors £6 Internal Mr. & Miss Ray
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 Miss Cuyler
Actors £1 Internal Mrs. Jones
Actors £1 Internal Miss Mortimer
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. Mayle
Dancers £2 Internal Mr. Hartland
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 Mr. Hope & Mr. Garbois Listed under "Men Dancers".
Dancers £2 10s Internal Mr. Wells & Mr. Vials Listed under "Men Dancers".
Dancers £3 Internal Barrett & Royals Listed under "Women Dancers".
Dancers £1 10s Internal Miss Watson Listed under "Women Dancers".
Dancers £3 15s Internal Miss Minton Miss Boyce & Mrs. Willson Listed under "Women Dancers".
Dancers £2 Internal Two Dennetts Listed under "Children Dancers".
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Twamley Listed under "Children Dancers".
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Green Listed under "Children Dancers".
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Horribeau Listed under "Children Dancers".
Dancers £1 Internal Miss Davis Listed under "Children Dancers".
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.
House Servants (Other) £35 14s Internal Servant's List
House Servants (Other) 15s Internal Potts
House Servants (Other) £1 Internal Master Lee
Housekeeping £2 Internal Mr. 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 £8 4s 6d Internal Lampmen
Performers (Other) £3 Internal Mr. Robert
Performers (Other) £1 10s Internal Mr. Evans
Performers (Other) £1 Internal Master 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
Prompters £3 10s Internal Mr. Stokes
Prompters £6 Internal Mr. Powell
Security £5 5s Internal Soldiers
Security £4 10s Internal Constables
Security £1 16s Internal Three Watchmen
Security 14s Internal Rigge
Singers £39 Internal Mr Braham
Singers £8 Internal Mr. Kelly
Singers £5 Internal Mr. Smith
Singers £5 Internal Mr. Gibbon
Singers £4 Internal Mr Welsh
Singers £4 Internal Mr. Cooke
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. Caulfield
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Bond
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Fitzsimmons
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Elliott
Singers £1 5s Internal Mr. Parsons
Singers £1 Internal Master 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 Madme. Storace
Singers £9 Internal Miss Lion
Singers £4 Internal Mrs. Daponte
Singers £3 Internal Mrs. St. John
Singers £3 Internal Mrs. Corri
Singers £2 Internal Miss Feron
Singers £1 10s Internal Mrs. Gardiner
Singers £1 5s Internal Mrs. Butler
Singers £1 Internal Miss Selwin
Singers £10 Internal Chorus
Stage Managers £25 4s Internal Mr Wroughton Manager & Actor
Supernumeraries £22 14s Internal Supernumeraries
Treasurers £15 Internal Mr. Peake
Treasurers £5 Internal Mr. Dunn
Treasurers £2 Internal Mr. R Peake
Composers £16 13s 4d External Mr Kelly Music of Do [Jew of Mogadore]
Music Copyists £1 5s Internal Mr. Wyber
Musicians (Band) £69 13s Internal The Band
Musicians (Harps) £3 3s Internal Harp
Musicians (Other) £1 16s Internal Pandeans
Musicians (Other) £4 10s 6d Internal D of Cumberland's Band
Musicians (Other) £5 5s Internal D of York's Band
Musicians (Trumpets) £4 10s Internal Trumpets
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 £8 2s Departmental Mantua
Tailoring £2 Internal Mr. Banks Tailor
Tailoring £7 8s 8d Departmental Tailor's Bill
Wardrobe (Other) £2 Internal Mr. & Mrs. Willson
Canvas £50 External Mr. Fowlkes Canvas
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £48 3s Departmental Carpenters
Production Design (Other) £10 Internal Mr Johnstone
Production Design (Other) £3 3s Internal Mr. Underwood
Production Design (Other) £13 4s Departmental Johnstone's Bill
Scene Painters £8 8s Internal Mr. Greenwood
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Mr Banks
Candles (Tallow) £10 4s External Mr. Allen Tallow
Lighting (Other) £82 10s External Mr White Lighting
Upholstery £25 External Mr. Graham upholder on Acct.
Bill Distribution £1 16s Internal Billstickers
Newspaper Advertisements £4 19s 6d External Petty Incident Office Newspaper
Printing £23 1s External Lowndes Printer
Management £63 Internal Principal Board of Management
Benefit Payments £4 14s 11d Internal Mrs. Mountain's B. 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) £33 6s 8d External Mr Cumberland Jew of Mogadore
Tinworkers £1 11s 6d Internal Mr. Tuck Tinman
Total £1,258 1s 7d