| Content Description | Rental [available at pp 1-26] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Michaelmas 1871, a record of one year's rent due at Michaelmas 1872, 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: Martin, Ranby, Scaftworth, Worksop, Thorpe Salvin, and Whitwell.
Rental includes an abstract of the collection, arranged by individual estate, available at p 23-24; rentals are then compared and adjusted.
The account [which can be found on pp 31-50] contains details of occasional receipts, relating to stone, mines, and game, for example.
The account also includes a record of payments from the estates from 25 March 1872 to 25 March 1873, for land and income taxes, tithes, and other sundries; these are arranged by category from p 36.
There is a detailed section on expenses concerning Shireoaks Quarry on pp 43-44.
The overall annual balance sheet can be found on pp 49-50; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1872/1873 for the unsettled estates and indicates that the balance was £42,087.4.10..
The spellings of place names in this record have been modernised from the original for the purpose of consistency.
On the death of the 5th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne [18 October 1864], many of the estates were managed by Trustees, according to the 1856 Settlement of the estates, in an arrangement which lasted until 1879; the estates included in this record were those of recent purchase and not included in the earlier settlement. |