| Content Description | Rental [available at pp 1-23] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Lady Day 1821, a record of one year's rent due at Lady Day 1822, 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: Bevercotes, Bothamsall, Beckingham, Brancliffe Grange, Cromwell, West Drayton, Elkesley, Egmanton, Eaton, Gamston, Haughton, Haughton Park, Holme and Muskham [North?], Kirton, Lound Hall, Morton, Marnham, East Markham, West Markham [later Markham Clinton] and Milton, Martin and Scaftworth, Mattersey, Maplebeck, Ordsall, Ollerton, Saundby, Tuxford, Walesby, Wheatley [North?], Weston, and Walkeringham.
Rental also includes an abstract of the collection, arranged by individual estate, available at p 23; rentals are compared and adjusted later in the account.
Account [which can be found on pp 24-63] contains details of miscellaneous receipts and payments [p 25], and a record of money received from timber and Spring wood [p 24].
There are details of payments from the estates from 4 September 1821 to 22 September 1822, for taxes such as income tax and land tax, tithes, repairs, and sundries such as cutting drains, and valuations; these are also arranged by individual estate [including Normanton, which appears with Elkesley].
An abstract of the payments from the estates collected, arranged by individual estate, is available on p 41.
Also available [from p 44] 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 payment for labour, and purchase of apples; record of the purchase of timber; an account of gratuities; and finally an account of miscellaneous payments, such as carriage of goods, for example.
Details concerning Haughton and Hardwick Farms [Hardwick Grange], can be found on p 58.
The annual balance sheet can be found on pp 60-61; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1821/1822 and indicates that the balance was £28,240.15.2.
The spellings of place names in this record have been modernised from the original for the purpose of consistency. |