Statement of Facts, on the Injurious Treatment of J. Elsee, Esq.: Late Tenant of a Considerable Portion of Havering Park Farm, in the Forest of Hainault, in Certain Transactions with the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and Their Agents; To Which Are Added Notes in Illustration of the Gross Abuses of the Forest Laws.Elsee, John
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Statement of Facts, on the Injurious Treatment of J. Elsee, Esq.: Late Tenant of a Considerable Portion of Havering Park Farm, in the Forest of Hainault, in Certain Transactions with the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and Their Agents; To Which Are Added Notes in Illustration of the Gross Abuses of the Forest Laws.
Elsee, John
Elsee, John -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Land tenure -- Great Britain
Mr. Mee also says that he has made _just allowance_ for the
_improvements_, _&c._ of _Mr. Elsee_. We shall presently _shew_ that he
has _not_ made _any_ allowance; but, on the contrary, that he has
enormously overcharged Mr. Elsee in the matter of rent, and made no
deduction whatever. Besides, we submit, that the umpire ought to have
set forth the articles that he estimated, and their amount; the rent at
which he valued the land; and every other particular as fully as he sets
forth the dung which was to be brought by Mr. Elsee. If the umpire had
ventured to do this, _if he could have done it_, his _award_ must have
looked so palpably preposterous, that an ideot might have been ashamed of
it. The only explanation we can offer of the affair is, the supposition
that the umpire, instead of examining into the difference between the
arbitrators, took Mr. Driver’s word, and made up this precious award
under his direction.
The rent that Mr. Elsee would have had to pay the executors of Miss
Ladbrook, at 375_l._ per annum, deducting the land-tax at 40_l._ 4_s._ in
two years and a half would have amounted to 937_l._ 10_s._ This was all
that was due to the crown, according to the _usual mode_ of dealing with
crown tenants; and in the case of Masterman before quoted, the
commissioners did not charge him even the rent he had paid under his own
lease, but merely the rent paid by his landlord under the old lease.
The case then stood as follows:—
Mr. Elsee was £937 10 0
indebted to
the crown
And Mr. Elsee had the following claims, under the agreement which
he had been entrapped to sign.
A new shed £50 0 0
over the
thrashing
machine, made
of oak from
the Chigwell
Row estate,
and which Mr.
Driver
requested
might be left
New brick 150 0 0
brew-house,
copper, oven,
&c.
Paid for 20 0 0
enclosing the
waste at
Romford
Paid for the 48 0 0
crown towards
the new
market-house,
Romford
Carried £268 0 0
forward
_Brought_ £937 10 0
forward, Mr.
Elsee, Dr.
_Brought_ £268 0 0
forward, Mr.
Elsee, Cr.
Laying down 360 0 0
to grass 120
acres _of
ploughed_
land, as by
the agreement
Stack of hay 175 0 0
chosen by Mr.
Driver for
the crown,
and sold by
Mr. Driver to
Mr. Ellis
Fixtures 30 0 0
valued by Mr.
Driver
Land-tax {47} 97 8 0
paid by Mr.
Elsee
930 8 0
Balance in £7 2 0
favor of the
crown
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