| Content Description | Rental [available at pp 1-39] includes a full list of the names of tenants, a record of arrears to Michaelmas 1884, a record of one year's rent due at Michaelmas 1885, 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, Carburton, Clumber Park, Cromwell, West Drayton, Elkesley, Egmanton, Eaton, Gamston, Haughton, Holme, Laxton, Lound Hall, Martin, Morton, Morton Grange, Marnham, East Markham, Markham Clinton [formerly West Markham and Milton], North Muskham, Ollerton, Saundby, Ranby, Scaftworth, Tuxford, Walesby, Wheatley [North], Wellow, Weston, Worksop, Thorpe Salvin, and Whitwell.
Rental includes an abstract of the collection, arranged by individual estate, available at p 38; rents are then compared and adjusted.
The account [which can be found on pp 46-155] contains details of occasional receipts concerning stone, game and mines, for example.
It is also worth noting the sections relating to farms [p 55], and to woods and plantations [pp 56-60]; payments for these can be found on pp 112-119.
The account also includes a record of payments from the estates from 25 March 1885 to 25 March 1886, for land and income tax, repairs, tithes, and other sundries; this is available from p 62.
Within the section of payments, there are some details of expenses relating to the central Clumber Estate [Clumber Park] [scattered from p 86]; these include purchases made for the park, house and garden, and details concerning the restoration of the mansion, for example.
Of particular interest, there is mention of lands purchased on p 79.
The overall annual balance sheet can be found on pp 154-155; this provides an abstract of the receipts and payments for 1885/1886 for the estates and indicates that the balance was £69,875.2.6..
The spellings of place names in this record have been modernised from the original for the purpose of consistency. |