| Content Description | Rental [which can be found from pp 1-32] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Michaelmas 1813, a record of one year's rent due at Michaelmas 1814, 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, Nottingham Gardens, 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 is available at pp 35-68] contains details of payments from the estates from 1813 to 1815, for taxes such as income tax and land tax, tithes, repairs, and sundries such as salary for the killing of moles, and for cutting and pointing rails; these are also arranged by individual estate.
An abstract of the payments from the estates collected, arranged by individual estate, is available on p 55.
Also available [from p 57] is a summary of payments from the central Clumber Estate [Clumber Park], including: repair expenses; an account of keepers' wages and allowances; expenses relating to Clumber Stables; expenses relating to Clumber Gardens, such as the purchase of baskets and pails; 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 fish and rabbit nets, for example.
The annual balance sheet can be found on pp 67-68; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1814 and indicates that the balance was £34,194.6.10 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. |