About a month from this date, the arbitrators met, and rode over the farm, to view the crops, and see the dung that had been carried. They measured one dung-hill, 75 feet long, 11 wide, and 3 deep. There was a second behind the hedge, but they were so very zealous in the discharge of their duty, and so very clever, _they thought it unnecessary to measure it_. They then proceeded to the 26 and 16 acre field, and looked at the dung and chalk rubbish which had been carried there; and went on to Havering to dinner. Neither on this occasion, nor on the 14th of July, did they attempt to go into any business, nor did they give Mr. Elsee any opportunity, as he had a _right to expect_, _of proving by several respectable farmers_, _who had long known the farm_, _the value of the respective crops in every field_; _and of the improvements that had been made_. It was impossible to arrive at any just conclusion, _without giving Mr. Elsee an opportunity of stating his own claims_, _and of knowing the nature and extent of the claims preferred against him_, _on many points of which explanations would be necessary_. This reasonable expectation, however, was totally disappointed; and Mr. Elsee heard nothing from the parties who had thus assumed to themselves _the right of disposing of his property without enquiry_, until the 29th of September, _the time when Mr. Ellis was to have paid Mr. Elsee for what he bought_; but instead of receiving his money from Mr. Ellis, he only received information _that the time for the settlement of matters between the commissioners and himself had been extended for a month_. In the mean time, Mr. Ellis had completed nothing on his part of the agreement; _but he had taken away a large quantity of bean straw_, _sent his teams and people to take possession of __the farm_, _pitched his hurdles_, _and put his large flocks of sheep into the barn mead_, _and continued to fold them in the very field which he had agreed_ Mr. Elsee _should hold possession of till Christmas_, _and for which the new tenant was to receive half the wheat chaff_. Mr. Ellis kept continually fetching the straw, hay, and chaff, _though it had not been appraised_, and his taking possession of the field which Mr. Elsee should have had until Christmas, drove the cattle of the latter _into the stable_, _and they consumed the oat and bean straw_, _chaff_, _&c._ In this situation of affairs, and _the new tenant being a total stranger to Mr. Elsee_, he wrote to his attorney to ascertain in which way he should act, _as the agreement seemed null and void_, _or held in defiance by the other party_, _and as much neglected by the referees_.