| Content Description | Rental [available at pp 1-32] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Michaelmas 1817, a record of one year's rent due at Michaelmas 1818, 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, Brancliffe Grange, 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] and Milton, Martin and Scaftworth, Mattersey, Maplebeck, Nottingham, Nottingham Gardens, Ordsall, Ollerton, Saundby, Tuxford, Walesby, Wheatley [North?], and Walkeringham.
Rental also includes an abstract of the collection, arranged by individual estate; available at pp 31-32.
Account [which can be found on pp 33-64] contains details of payments from the estates from 1816 to 1818, for taxes such as income tax and land tax, tithes, repairs, and sundries such as cutting drains, and the entertainment of tenants; these are also arranged by individual estate.
An abstract of the payments from the estates collected, arranged by individual estate, is available on p 50.
Also available [from p 52] is a summary of payments from the central Clumber Estate [Clumber Park], including: repair expenses, for example for plumbing; an account of gamekeepers' wages and allowances; expenses relating to Clumber Gardens, such as the purchase of plants and wooden rakes; an account of gratuities; details concerning Hardwick Farm [Grange] [p 62]; and finally an account of miscellaneous payments, for the carriage of parcels and assessments for drainage, for example.
The annual balance sheet can be found on pp 63-64; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1818 and indicates that the balance was £39,152.18.3 1/2.
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. |