| Content Description | Rental [available at pp 1-29] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Lady Day 1835, a record of one year's rent due at Lady Day 1836, 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, Clumber Park, Cromwell, West Drayton, Eakring, Elkesley, Egmanton, Eaton, Gamston, Haughton, Holme, Kersall, Laxton, Lound Hall, Morton, Marnham, East Markham, Markham Clinton [formerly West Markham and Milton], Martin, Mattersey, Maplebeck, Misterton, North Muskham, Ordsall, Ollerton, Saundby, Scaftworth, Tickhill, Tuxford, Walesby and Willoughby, North Wheatley, Wellow, Weston, and Walkeringham.
Rental also includes an abstract of the collection, arranged by individual estate, available at p 28; in addition, there is a list of rentals compared and adjusted.
The account [which can be found on pp 30-83] provides a record of money received for timber and Spring wood [pp 30-33], and a note of other miscellaneous receipts.
Account also includes details of payments from the estates from 1 June 1835 to 1 June 1836, for taxes such as income tax and land tax, tithes, repairs, and sundries such as the drainage of land and superintending the school in Haughton Park; 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 56.
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 lime and stone; an account of gamekeepers' wages and allowances; expenses relating to Clumber Gardens and Pleasureground, such as payment for labour, and the purchase of potatoes; record of the purchase of coals and timber; details of planting expenses; an account of gratuities; and finally an account of other miscellaneous payments, for stamps and stationary, for example.
The account includes details of expenditure relating 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 1835/1836 and indicates that the balance was £27,449.9.7.
Particularly interesting to note, there is mention of moneys received and paid on account of the farm in hand at East Markham [found on pp 84-87].
The spellings of place names in this record have been modernised from the original for the purpose of consistency.
Note that Ne 3 A 30/2 is a further copy of the item |