| Content Description | Rental [available at pp 1-36] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Michaelmas 1820, a record of half year's rent due at Lady Day 1821, 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 p 36.
Account [which can be found on pp 37-51] contains details of payments from the estates from 1820 to 1821, for taxes such as income tax and land tax, tithes, repairs, and sundries such as looking after the woods; these are also arranged by individual estate.
Also available [from p 42] is a summary of payments from the central Clumber Estate [Clumber Park], including: repair expenses, for example for nails and cement; an account of gamekeepers' wages and allowances; expenses relating to Clumber Gardens, such as sweeping of flues, and the purchase of seeds; an account of gratuities; and finally an account of miscellaneous payments, such as travelling expenses and postage of parcels, for example.
The annual balance sheet can be found on p 51; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1821 and indicates that the balance was £18,795.19.2 1/2.
The spellings of place names in this record have been modernised from the original for the purpose of consistency. |