All the hay and straw taken from the farm 107 2 0 consisted of 119 loads of hay, weighing 18 cwt. per load 47 loads of straw, at their estimation, 27 5 0 weighing 11 cwt. 2 qrs. 8 lb. per load 166 loads, or tons 134 7 0 This straw was carried corn and all to Chigwell Row, at 17 loads, with three horses, but called 47 one horse or nominal loads of 11 _cwt._ 2 _qrs._ 8 _lbs._ and the quantity of dung to be returned as under stated:— 47 one horse loads, at 11 cwt. 2 qrs. 8 lbs. 27 5 0 each 119 loads of hay, at 18 cwt. each 107 0 0 Add 119 loads to make two for one 107 0 0 The whole quantity of dung due, in tons 241 5 0 The dung admitted to have been carried, consisted of 143 tons, and therefore about 99 tons in addition would have balanced the account. The value of this dung, at 5_s._ per load was 25_l._ and at _this price any quantity could be obtained at Romford_, _as Mr. Elsee proved by various respectable witnesses_. Yet after this statement, can it be believed that Mr. Bolland should award Mr. Elsee to pay the sum of 336_l._ 16_s._ 6_d._ besides _all the expences of the witnesses on both sides_, and _half the expences of the reference_! To us, this is utterly unaccountable. Such witnesses on the other side, as Mr. Driver and Mr. Mee, _had their previous conduct to justify_, if possible; and Mr. Driver, who on a former occasion had told Mr. Elsee that he had never heard of more than 27 feet to a load of dung, stated now, upon his oath before Mr. Bolland that _fifty-four feet of spit-dung was a load_, and that too as a set off against a nominal load, namely 36 trusses, weighing 11 _cwt._ while 54 feet of dung weigh 42 _cwt._ Mr. Mee, who was said by Mr. Driver to have a way of his own when be estimated 40 feet to a load, found it necessary to _alter_, but _not to mend his ways_; for not thinking Driver’s jump from 27 to 54 feet would make out the calculation on their side, _even far the one dung-hill which they did measure_, _but never cast up the contents at the time_, he finally came to the conclusion that _sixty feet of dung made a load_!—a piece of information, we are bold to say, that no farmer ever heard of before. {65} The absurdity and contradiction of the evidence against Mr. Elsee were really preposterous. For instance, Mr. Mee measured six stacks of hay 168½ loads, 250 feet to the load; and Mr. Harding measured the same stacks at 256 loads, 216 feet to the load.