| Content Description | Rental [available at pp 1-96] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Lady Day 1848, a record of one year's rent due at Lady Day 1849, 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, Muskham [North], 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 93-94; in addition, there is a list of rentals compared and adjusted.
Account [which can be found on pp 99-164] contains a detailed record of payments from the estates from 1 June 1848 to 1 June 1849, for taxes such as income tax and land tax, repairs, tithes, and sundries such as payments to Worlaby hospital; these are also arranged by individual estate.
An abstract of the payments from the estates collected, can be found on p 123.
Also available [from p 126] is a summary of payments from the central Clumber Estate [Clumber Park], including: repair expenses, for example for cement and nails; an account of gamekeepers' wages and allowances; expenses relating to Clumber Gardens and Pleasureground, such as payment for labour, and the purchase of netting and fruit trees; an account of gratuities; record of the purchase of coal and timber; and finally an account of other miscellaneous payments, for rabbits and game, for example.
There is a substantial account of money received from, and spent on, timber and Spring woods [pp 137-143].
There are details of the expenditure relating to Haughton and Hardwick farms [Hardwick Grange?] [p 150].
The annual balance sheet can be found on pp 155-156; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1848/1849 and indicates that the balance was £41,744.19.10.
Separate details of receipts and payments on account of Worksop Manor can be found on pp 159-164.
The spellings of place names in this record have been modernised from the original for the purpose of consistency.
Ne 3 A 44/1 is a letter from James Leith, dated 20 March 1850 and enclosed in the volume; states that he has examined the payments and awaits various other account books to be checked. |