| Content Description | Rental [available at pp 1-92] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Lady Day 1845, a record of one year's rent due at Lady Day 1846, 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, Drayton [West], 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, Tuxford, Walesby, North Wheatley, Wellow, Weston, and Walkeringham; there are also separate details for Worksop Manor and Egmanton.
Rental also includes an abstract of the collection, arranged by individual estate, available at pp 89-90; in addition, there is a list of rentals compared and adjusted.
Account [which can be found on pp 93-152] contains a detailed record of payments from the estates from 1 June 1845 to 1 June 1846, for taxes such as income tax and land tax, repairs, tithes, and sundries such as the purchase of drain tiles; these are also arranged by individual estate.
An abstract of the payments from the estates collected, can be found on p 115.
Also available [from p 118] is a summary of payments from the central Clumber Estate [Clumber Park], including: repair expenses, for example for painting; an account of gamekeepers' wages and allowances; expenses relating to Clumber Gardens and Pleasureground, such as payment for labour and glass; an account of gratuities; record of the purchase of coal and timber; and finally an account of other miscellaneous payments, for a years' shooting, for example.
There is a substantial account of money received from, and spent on, timber and Spring woods [pp 123-128].
There are details of expenditure relating to Haughton and Hardwick farms [Hardwick Grange?] [p 141].
The annual balance sheet can be found on pp 145-146; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1845/1846 and indicates that the balance was £46,075.3.9.
There are separate details of receipts and payments on account of Worksop Manor [pp 149-152].
The spellings of place names in this record have been modernised from the original for the purpose of consistency.
An individual slip of paper [Ne 3 A 41/1/1] shows the balance of the cash book for 14 July 1846.
Me 4 A 41/2 is a further copy of the document. |