| Content Description | Rental [available at pp 1-99] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Michaelmas 1862, a record of one year's rent due at Michaelmas 1863, 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, Clumber Park, Cromwell, West Drayton, Elkesley, Egmanton, Eaton, Gamston, Haughton, Holme, Laxton, Lound Hall, Morton, Morton Grange, Marnham, East Markham, Markham Clinton [formerly West Markham and Milton], Martin, North Muskham, Ollerton, Ranby, Saundby, Scaftworth, Tuxford, Walesby, Wheatley [North], Wellow, and Weston; there are also details for Worksop Manor, Whitwell, Thorpe Salvin, and Shireoaks and Hardwick cottages.
Rental includes an abstract of the collection, arranged by individual estate, available at p 97-98; rentals are then compared and adjusted.
The account [which can be found on pp 100-194] contains a record of occasional receipts, such as those from timber [p 104].
The account includes a detailed record of payments from the estates from 1 January 1863 to 1 January 1864, for taxes such as income tax and land tax, repairs, tithes, and other sundries; these are arranged by category from p 110.
Within the section on payments are details of expenses relating to the central Clumber Estate [Clumber Park] [scattered from p 121 onwards], including: repair expenses; an account of gamekeepers' wages and allowances; expenses relating to Clumber Gardens and Pleasureground, such as payment for labour, and purchase of thermometers; details of expenses regarding the stables; mention of involvement with Hardwick Farm [Hardwick Grange?]; an account of gratuities; record of the purchase of timber; and finally an account of other miscellaneous payments, such as for the entertainment of tenants, for example.
Also noteworthy is a mention of lands purchased on pp 157-158.
There are separate details of receipts and payments on account of Worksop Manor, such as taxes, repairs, and other miscellaneous items [pp 162-186].
An abstract of the Clumber payments collected can be found on pp 189-190; an abstract of payments from the Worksop estate is available on pp 191-192.
The overall annual balance sheet can be found on pp 193-194; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1863 and indicates that the balance was £52,205.12.5.
The spellings of place names in this record have been modernised from the original for the purpose of consistency. |