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.
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.