Reference
OR2228
Title
Rent Book 'Of RLO & his childrens property - 1847'. Detailed descriptions of some properties and subsequent history to end of the century, list of cottages and garden allotment holders, lists total charges on Richard Longuet Orlebar’s income. Various letters and notes attached to pages and loose. Indexed at back.
Date free text
1847-c. 1891
Production date
From: 1847 To: 1891
Admin/biog history
deposited 29 August 2008
Scope and Content
At front names of cottage tenants and garden allotment tenants.
Loose at front: Note of rents received 1870. Rental list of Hinwick 25 March 1870. Notes of acreages on the back of a printed notice from H Shrive, saddler and harness maker, Wollaston who has disposed of his business to mr W Speight and is about to leave the country, 25 March 1871. Copy of agreement between R Orlebar and Stephen Parsons for farm at Podington written on the back of a notice about Foot & Mouth Disease and Sheep Pox. Rough notes on the back of a licence for movement of animals out of an area infected with foot & mouth disease, 1881. Rough notes on the back of an application form for subscription to bonds in the Elgin, Peitcodiac and Havelock Railway Company, 1887. Note re. woods offered to Smith. Acreages Mr Whyman and Mr Parsens.
Letter from Walter Sargent & co, wholesale boot manufacturer, Rushden re. cottage, 17 Dec 1891. Memo from Mills & Co Ironmongers, Wellingborough re cost of netting 4 Feb 1892 (rough accounts on back).
Original pages 1-26 cut out and pages renumbered starting again at 1. Lots of pages are blank.
Page 1 Memoranda on Mr White's Farm late Leakins and late Grays, March 1871. Attached to page Rent roll of 1861 including note re. the rent charge on the vicarage.
Page 5 Summary of total receipts of R L Orlebar's Income per annum, 1847.
Page 9 summary of total charges on R L Orlebar's income per annum, 1847.
Page 15 Acreage of woods &c 1889.
Page 52 Property in the parish of Poddington and other property [this is presumably intended as a heading for the pages that follow.]
Page 54-56 John Austin, Manor Farm, 1847 with attached note from 1887 from William Tye (who took the farm from 1887) re. not taking Dungee Farm but interested in two grass fields. Various loose notes.
Page 56 Charles Agutter - Public house with field. Land, 1847-1856.
Page 58 John Brereton - house 1847, 'Mich 1855 House given to the vicarage of Poddington some years ago but £20 yearly during the life of my mother to be paid as a rent charge to me.'
Page 60 William Clark, 2 little fields, 1847, let to Joseph Bates and Wm West 1855 and George Cooper 1869.
Page 62 Cottages.
Page 64 Grange Farm - + loose notes.
Page 66 Sarah Goosey - dwelling house 1847- 1869.
Page 68 Garden Allotments.
Page 70 Lodge Farm, George Pashler 1847 in hand 1855, let to Cecil Rouse 1886.
Page 72 James White - 2 farms let together 1847 [Church farm and Gray's Farm?] loose notes mostly re. Church Farm.
Page 74 John Boteler land in Hinwick and Bozeat.
Page 76 Richard Clark, a farm Hinwick, 1847 then let to Daniel Rortham [?] then to Robert Wyldes.
Page 78 Smith, a farm at Hinwick.
Page 80 R L Orlebar's own lands - Hinwick Farm, paddock, Wolds.
Page 82 James Thompson - Yelnow, Lady Day Farm. Loose letter from Harrold Vicarage giving character reference for Robert Thompson, 1867.
Page 84 Woods.
Page 85 acreage of woods and coverts.
Page 86 Plantations, Spinnies, osier Bed.
Page 88 Dungee Wold Farm (let to Mr John Pettit of Bozeat in 1857.
Page 90 Tithes.
Page 92 Royal Exchange.
Page 94 funds.
Page 96 marriage settlement.
Page 98 Capital on which R L Orlebar ought to receive 5%.
Page 100 218 acres let to Messrs Edward and Henry Campion from Michaelmas 1860.
Page 102 - Hinwick Hall (includes details of letting to Pearson and Scott) + loose letters 1886.
Page 104 Mr Thomas Trapler Skevington of Bozeat - Bozeat Close etc. 1881.
Page 105 Thomas Westley house and premises 1884. Loose memo re. agreement to let the large cottage near Hinwick House to James Maddocks.
Page 106 G A Talbutt - Gray's Farm House and premises 1887.
Page 127 Charges on R L Orlebar's Property [heading for following pages]
Page 128 Mrs Vere Alston.
Page 130 Brothers and Sisters - each with an individual page.
Page 138 Mrs Orlando Orlebar.
Page 140 Anna Orlebar.
Page 142 Mrs Delme Radcliffe.
Page 144 Taxes.
Page 146 Rates.
Page 171 R L Orlebar's Children's Property 'Money given to them by different friends & in R L Orlebar's hands for them.'
Page 194 Church Land.
Page 217 List of papers inventories agreements etc and where kept, 1847.
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