| Content Description | Rental [which can be found on pp 1-39] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Michaelmas 1816, a record of one year's rent due at Michaelmas 1817, details of the amount received and details of the arrears due; also includes details of acknowledgements and chief rents where appropriate; rental covers the following places: Basford, Brinsley, Bevercotes, Bothamsall, Beckingham, Cromwell, Cropwell Butler, Calverton, West Drayton, Elkesley, Egmanton, Eaton, Flawborough, Gamston, Haughton, Haughton Park, Hucknall [Torkard?], Holme and Muskham [North?], Kirton, Lound Hall, Lambley, Morton, Marnham, East Markham, West Markham [later Markham Clinton], Milton and Tuxford, Martin and Scaftworth, Mattersey, Maplebeck, Nottingham, Nottingham Gardens, Ordsall, Ollerton, Saundby, Walesby, Wheatley [North?], and Walkeringham.
Rental also includes an abstract of the collection, arranged by individual estate; available at pp 38-39.
Account [which can be found on pp 41-75] contains details of payments from the estates from 1816 to 1817, for taxes such as income tax and land tax, tithes, repairs, and sundries such as entertainment, and mole catching; these are also arranged by individual estate.
An abstract of the payments from the estates collected, arranged by individual estate, is available on p 69.
Also available [from p 61] is a summary of payments from the central Clumber Estate [Clumber Park], including: repair expenses, for example painting and plastering; an account of gamekeepers' wages and allowances; expenses relating to Clumber Gardens, such as the purchase of potatoes; an account of gratuities; details concerning Hardwick Farm [Grange?] [p 72]; and finally an account of miscellaneous payments, for carriage of timber and for subscription to the races, for example.
The annual balance sheet can be found on pp 74-75; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1817 and indicates that the balance was £35,264.0.2.
Much of the second half of the volume is blank.
The spellings of place names in this record have been modernised from the original for the purpose of consistency. |