Manuscript headed 'A Valuation of Houses and Gardens &c in Corbridge as follows', giving names of proprietors, tenants, 'What the Building consists of' and valuations.

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[ Corbridge, Northumberland: manuscript valuation of houses and gardens, circa 1800 ]
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[Corbridge, Northumberland. Circa 1800.]
£250.00
SKU: 16481

10pp., 4to. On five leaves pinned together. In good condition, on aged laid paper with Britannia watermark. Folded into the customary packet, and docketted 'Valuation of Corbrid. Houses & Gardens &c.' Arranged in ten columns: No. of Claim; Proprietors Names; Situation & Tennants Names; What the Building consists [Premises consist] of; Particular Content of Land [Gardens &c]; Total Content of Land; Particular rent of Houses & Land; Yearly rent of Houses & Land; Houses & Land proportioned; Total Claim. The first entry, covering the whole of the first page, is for a number of properties belonging to Bartholomew Winship who, according to Wood's 'Registers of Corbridge' (1911), died at the age of sixty in 1802. Other proprietors include: Sir Thomas Clavering (either the 7th Baronet (1719-1794) or the 8th (1771-1853)), the Duke of Northumberland, Greenwich Hospital, Robert Cragild, William Hipple, John Jobling, Himphrey Kirchley, Bartholomew Lumley, Thomas Martindale, Thomas Richley, Thomas and John Snowball, Robert Shevils [Robert Shevill?], 'Mar. of Tweddel' [Marquis of Tweedale?] and 'Poor House'. Premises includes houses, stables, brew houses, cellars, granary, bread barn, store house, 'Cottage & Byer', bake house, orchard, hovel, 'Stack yard', 'Cowhouses', garth, mills, 'Workhouse', barns, backhouse.