| Content Description | Rental [which can be found on pp 1-32] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Michaelmas 1811, a record of one year's rent due at Michaelmas 1812, 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 31-32.
Account [which can be found on pp 33-66] contains details of payments from the estates from 1811 to 1813, for taxes such as income tax and land tax, tithes, repairs, and sundries such as salary for killing moles, and for 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 51.
The account includes separate details of expenditure relating to East Markham Enclosure [p 52], West Markham and Milton Enclosure [p 60], and Haughton Park [p 53].
Also available [from p 54] 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 Gardens, such as the purchase of trees and seeds; an account of gratuities; an account of the expenses of the Clumber establishment, including those for mercers and liquors; and finally an account of miscellaneous payments, for suppers for East Retford Jurymen and burning charcoal, for example.
The annual balance sheet can be found on pp 65-66; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1812 and indicates that the balance was £32,504.2.5 1/2.
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. |