| Content Description | Rental [available at pp 1-25] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Lady Day 1822, a record of one year's rent due at Lady Day 1823, 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, Eakring, Elkesley, Egmanton, Eaton, Gamston, Haughton, Haughton Park, Holme, Kersall, Kirton, Lound Hall, Morton, Marnham, East Markham, West Markham [later Markham Clinton] and Milton, Martin, Mattersey, Maplebeck, Misterton, North Muskham, Ordsall, Ollerton, Saundby, Scaftworth, Tickhill, Tuxford, Walesby, Wheatley [North?], Weston, and Walkeringham.
Rental also includes an abstract of the collection, arranged by individual estate, available at p 25; rentals are also compared and adjusted.
The account [which can be found on pp 26-69] provides details of miscellaneous receipts and occasional payments, and accounts concerning money received from timber and Spring wood [p 26].
Account also includes details of payments from the estates from 22 September 1822 to 23 September 1823, for taxes such as income tax and land tax, tithes, repairs, and sundries such as taking down the greenhouse and shed; these are also arranged by individual estate.
An abstract of the payments from the estates collected, arranged by individual estate, is available on p 44.
Also available [from p 47] is a summary of payments from the central Clumber Estate [Clumber Park], including: repair expenses, for example for ropes and twine; 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 coals and timber; details of planting expenses; an account of gratuities; and finally an account of miscellaneous payments, such as those for stamps and travel, for example.
The account includes details of expenditure relating to Egmanton, Kirton, and Walesby and Willoughby Enclosures [pp 64-65], and concerning Haughton and Hardwick Farms [Hardwick Grange?] [p63].
The annual balance sheet can be found on pp 68-69; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1822/1823 and indicates that the balance was £29,654.0.8 1/2.
The spellings of place names in this record have been modernised from the original for the purpose of consistency. |