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. Elsee was obliged to allow for the 96 235 4 0
acres of wheat straw, sold to Mr. Ellis, no
less than 392 load of dung, at 12s. per
load
For the hay to Mr. Ellis 123 load, at two 147 12 0
load for one, 246 load at 12s. per load
For the 18 acres of wheat, taken to 50 0 0
Chigwell Row, at 13 load & 4 load of
rubbish, Mr. Elsee delivered 200 dung cart
load of good rotten dung and chalk, at
5_s._ per load
For dung left in farm yard 100 0 0
For 119 load of hay sold, and about 6 load 284 2 0
of rubbish, tops and bottoms, taken away,
Mr. Elsee paid in money by Mr. Bolland’s
award
Expence of award and crown witnesses 54 12 0
Mr. Elsee’s expences in the exchequer, and 320 0 0
the award
Being a charge of £1191 10 0
for dung only.
Thus was Mr. Elsee, in one year, deprived of more than _three thousand
pounds_, as the result of his anxious desire to oblige the Commissioners,
and to accommodate the views of Mr. Driver. To this alone has this
injustice—we had almost called it _robbery_—been owing. As a tenant at
will, he would have been only liable to his customary rent; he could have
carried off his crops, sold the dung, removed his fixtures, and left a
worthless occupancy to the crown; but because he was anxious to
accommodate himself to the best interests of all parties, _and
incautiously put himself in the hands of_ Mr. Driver, he has been marked
out for a series of wrongs and oppressions that are scarcely to be
credited; but it is yet to be hoped that he may obtain redress. The
_blame_ at present may rest only with the inferior agents of the crown,
and the Commissioners have the means, nor shall we doubt of their
disposition to do right; but if their servants can intercept the claim
for justice, there is no step left but an appeal to the legislature to
expose the wrong, and prove that the boast of _equal law_ is an idle
mockery in England.
We shall now proceed to shew, from the quantity of meadow land, _that no
such quantity of hay could have been grown_, _as that for which the dung
was claimed_. This we shall do by inserting the following document, of
the authenticity of which there can be no question, as it is a copy of
the estimated quantity of the land, arable and meadow and pasture, made
by Mr. Driver himself, and printed in the proposals for letting the
farms, when they were taken by Mr. Ellis.
Particulars of Land from the letting Catalogue.
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