| Content Description | Rental [which can be found on pp 1-33] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Michaelmas 1809, a record of half year's rent due at Lady Day 1810, 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, Cromwell, Cropwell Butler, Calverton, West Drayton, Elkesley, Egmanton, Eaton, Flawborough, Gamston, Haughton, Haughton Park, Hucknall [Torkard?], Holme and Muskham [North?], Kirton, Lound Hall, Lowdham, Morton, Marnham, East Markham, West Markham [later Markham Clinton], Milton and Tuxford, Martin and Scaftworth, Mattersey, Maplebeck, Nottingham, Ordsall, Ollerton, Saundby, Walesby, Wheatley [North?], and Walkeringham.
Rental also includes an abstract of the collection, arranged by individual estate; available at pp 32-33.
Account [which can be found on pp 36-72] contains details of payments from the estates from 1809 to 1811, for taxes such as income tax and land tax, tithes, wood, repairs, and sundries such as salary for killing moles and work in the woods; these are also arranged by individual estate.
An abstract of the payments from the estates collected, arranged by individual estate, is available on p 54.
The account includes separate details of expenditure relating to Gamston Enclosure [p 56], West Markham and Milton Enclosure [p 57], and Haughton Park [p 56].
Also available [from p 58] is a summary of payments from the central Clumber Estate [Clumber Park], including: repair expenses, for example on plantation fences; an account of keepers' wages and allowances; expenses relating to Clumber Stables; expenses relating to Clumber Garden and Pleasureground, such as the purchase of seeds and ale; an account of gratuities; an account of the expenses of the Clumber establishment, including those for meat, fruit and malt; and finally an account of miscellaneous payments, for example for carriage of goods, and the engraving of plate.
The annual balance sheet can be found on pp 71-72; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1810 and indicates that the balance was £32,518.17.10 1/4.
Much of the second half of the volume is blank.
The spellings of place names in this record have been modernised from the original for the purpose of consistency. |