| 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 1812, a record of one year's rent due at Michaelmas 1813, 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, Lambley, 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 33-70] contains details of payments from the estates from 1812 to 1814, for taxes such as income tax and land tax, tithes, repairs, and sundries such as a donation to the widows of Worlaby Hospital, and draining woodland; these are also arranged by individual estate [including Bawtry, with Martin and Scaftworth].
An abstract of the payments from the estates collected, arranged by individual estate, is available on p 56.
Also available [from p 57] 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 pots; an account of gratuities; an account of the expenses of the Clumber establishment, including those for fruit, nuts, and malt; and finally an account of miscellaneous payments, for leather, stone and lime, for example.
The account includes details of expenditure relating to East Markham Enclosure [p 61], and Haughton Park [p 68].
The annual balance sheet can be found on pp 69-70; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1813 and indicates that the balance was £33,371.11.8 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. |