| Description | The following run of run of 21 volumes is incomplete. The absent volumes are in Winchester at Hampshire Record Office (see related material field). Content varies a little with some detailing rent only, some expenditure only some combined. In the early volumes there are applications made to John Harris as agent to George Gough-Calthorpe which Harris wrote up Lord Calthorpe's consideration.
A combined rental, account and minute book.
/1. Rental from 1820 to Lady Day 1821.
Arranged by tenants' names.
/2. Expenditure and receipt account:
Draining, Building and Repairs, Plantations and Nursery, Landlords Improvements, Taxes and Levies, Annual Payments, Donations, Edgbaston Corn Bill and Tythe, Stationary, Expenses on Receipt Days, Sundries to your lordship, Farm accounts Metchley Park and Elvetham, Lawyers Bills, Estimates and Allowances, Journeys &c, Interest Account, Receipt by the Foreman.
/3. Summary of the accounts at /2. and other revenues:
Garden Receipts, Arrears of Rent, Dividends.
/4. Receipts by the Foreman.
/5. General 'Minutes' of business, entitled: "The General Business of Edgbaston submitted for your Lordship's considerations, August 1822." Includes:
Applications for land, alterations to leases, requests from tenant farmers, millers etc for a "new wagon hovel" "new low shed" etc, lines of roads, building work progress.
Page 38 the farm tenants and tenants of accommodation land seek a reduction in rent. John Harris states distress of tenants possible due to low prices of farm produce, and he fears unrest but puts this against unreasonable expectations of tenants. He discusses the effect of this situation on subsequent development policy for the Edgbaston Estate.
/6. A list of persons for his lordship to see and on what subject.
/7. List of new buildings. |