| Content Description | Rental [available at pp 1-32] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Michaelmas 1818, a record of one year's rent due at Michaelmas 1819, 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 33-63] contains details of payments from the estates from 1818 to 1819, for taxes such as income tax and land tax, tithes, repairs, and sundries such as the entertainment of tenants, and cutting stunted oaks; 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 is a summary of payments from the central Clumber Estate, including: repair expenses, for example for lime and stone; an account of gamekeepers' wages and allowances; expenses relating to Clumber Gardens, such as the purchase of candles and scythes; an account of gratuities; details concerning Hardwick Farm [Grange?] [p 60]; and finally an account of miscellaneous payments, for furniture and the carriage of parcels, for example.
The annual balance sheet can be found on p 63; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1819 and indicates that the balance was £38,965.3.3.
The spellings of place names in this record have been modernised from the original for the purpose of consistency. |