| Content Description | Rental [available at pp 1-29] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Lady Day 1825, a record of one year's rent due at Lady Day 1826, 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, Cromwell, West Drayton, Eakring, Elkesley, Egmanton, Eaton, Gamston, Haughton, Holme, Kersall, Laxton, 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, North Wheatley, Wellow, Weston, and Walkeringham.
Rental includes an abstract of the collection, arranged by individual estate, available at p 28, and rentals are then compared and adjusted.
The account [which can be found on pp 30-83] contains details of miscellaneous receipts, and of money received from timber and Spring wood [pp 30-35].
Of particular interest, there is a record of money advanced on account of the building of an incorporated workhouse at Upton [p 36].
Account also includes details of payments from the estates from 25 September 1825 to 25 September 1826, for taxes such as income tax and land tax, tithes, repairs, and sundries such as draining the land; these are also arranged by individual estate [including Normanton].
An abstract of the payments from the estates collected, arranged by individual estate, is available on p 58.
Details of occasional payments and expenses, such as for the purchase of estates, can be found on p 59.
Also available [from p 60] is a summary of payments from the central Clumber Estate [Clumber Park], including: repair expenses, for example for the carriage of bricks and stone; an account of gamekeepers' wages and allowances; expenses relating to Clumber Gardens, such as payment for labour, and purchase of seeds; 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 for an opinion on a weir, for example.
Interesting to note, is the mention of payments on account for the building of a new church at West Markham [Markham Clinton] [p 76].
The account includes details of expenditure relating to Egmanton, and Walesby and Willoughby Enclosures [p 79], and to Haughton and Hardwick Farms [Hardwick Grange?] [p 78].
The annual balance sheet can be found on pp 82-83; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1825/1826 and indicates that the balance was £30,955.17.8 1/4.
The spellings of place names in this record have been modernised from the original for the purpose of consistency. |