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
When Mr. Elsee applied to Mr. Ellis for the payment for some seed beans
and land rolls, and the two stacks of hay sold him in September, he said
he would pay for the things as valued by Mr. Mee. To this Mr. Elsee
objected, and having found Mr. Mee in Romford Market, he told him in the
presence of the new tenant that he had no right to mix the property of
the crown and what had been sold to the new tenant together; and that as
Mr. Ellis wanted to settle, and he wanted his money, if the umpire would
look into his books, and say the value of the two hay-stacks, and the
wheat straw, although valued ever so low, he would, according to his
agreement, take the money, and settle with the new tenant, but that he
had no right to mix the things to be paid for by the crown with the other
property; and that as to the oat and bean straw, not one word had been
mentioned about selling it, by any of the parties, as it was never
intended to be sold, _that_ and the hay from the stacks at Windmill Hill
being all the cattle had to live upon from Michaelmas to Lady-day; and
that as to the award, he was confident it must be set aside, as the
allowance for dung to which they had no claim amounted to more than the
rent owing to them; and as he had agreed to enable Mr. Driver to fulfil
his engagement with the new tenant, by furnishing him with dung for the
ensuing crops, the arbitrators surely did not mean to make him pay over
again in money. Mr. Mee appeared confused, _and refused to state the
value of the hay and straw separately_. With respect to the oat and bean
straw, when Mr. Driver found it was not intended to be sold, _he himself
furnished Mr. Ellis with the amount_, _and ordered him to deduct it out
of the sum to be paid_; _this Mr. Driver could do_, _independent of Mr.
Mee_; _but the charge against_ Mr. Elsee _for the_ 188 _load of dung_,
and the 7½ _per. cent. for making the charge unjustly_, _he entirely
omitted to notice_!
The following additional particulars are to be taken into the account of
the sum total of the loss sustained.
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