| Description | Titled 'State of my property and rentals in the east and west ridings of Yorkshire from the year 1812 and other memoranda'.
Also includes form of a notice to quit a farm, Hornsea east field and Southorpe fields acreage.
The book includes notes on tenants, rentals, his new house at Wassand with notes on new outbuildings, tree plantations, family (including a note regarding his daughter, Mary leaving her husband, George Strickland who came to live with him on 13 Nov 1828 after her husband 'wickedly abandoning her', she went to Bromley under Mr Scott's care '...and has lived with me ever since.' Notes that his grandsons, Henry and Frederick went to America and Frederick perished in the mountains, Mrs Constable's illnesses.
Also includes a notes on court cases, for example, a case of Mr Tyson, vicar of Adlingfleet, 1817, and a court case to recover the tithes at Crowle. Cost of court case £1,002. The property was worth £1,500 with a comment 'So much for law'. Another court case relating to fishing in the lake.
Notes on land purchases and sales, for example selling Carperby and Thorpe estates for £5675 and £9476., general estate management - building of cottages and pulling them down, sowing of crops, cost of draining the estate 1818-1825 at Eastoft . With a note that in 1822 Mr Seaton of Reedness started to manage the estate. Includes a note on the land on which Sigglesthorne school is built and it being part of of the enclosure.
Sep 1825 'sold my house at Beverley to Mr Iveson for £2,500'. Statement of Marmaduke Constable, as to why the owners of Wassand should not be disturbed by the rectors of Sigglesthorne with respect to the immemorial money payment in lieu of tithes, 2 Jan 1810. |