| Description | Rent roll of the estates belonging to the Right Hon Lord Viscount Cobham
Includes tenants and farms in Hagley, Churchill, Clent, Kinver, Frankley, Northfield, Kings Norton, Bromsgrove, Halesowen Borough, Hawne, Romsley, Illey, Hasbury, Hunnington, The Hill, Lapal and Warley Salop and telephone easements and accounts for Manor mines, Halesowen, woods and timber and manorial courts and enfranchisements.
Also includes disbursements in respect of income tax, land tax, inhabited house duty, poor rates, water rates, rents and tithe rent charges, permanent improvements, repairs, roads, gates and fences, draining, abatements from rent, audit expenses, agent's salary, insurance, repairs at Hagley Hall and Park, miscellaneous payments, charges on the estate and compensation fund charge and accounts in respect of sales, purchases and statement of loans.
Also includes a loose sepia print of a portrait of Louis Charles dauphin of France and part of a loose undated letter written from Paris relating to a visit to the Carnavalet Museum in Paris and giving some background to Louis Charles and the fate of him and his family during the French Revolution. The items have been placed in a separate folder within the volume and numbered 705:104 BA15492/84/2-3.
Louis Charles (1775-1795) was the younger son of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France. After the death of his father he was called Louis XVII by his supporters, but was never officially king. The original painting of Louis Charles is said to have been painted in 1789 by Madame Lebrun (Louise Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun, 1755-1842) who served as a portrait painter to Marie Antoinette. The painting is said to contain the first evidence of a child playing with a yo-yo. |