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. — John Shaqi
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
£ _s._ _d._
Eighty-one acres of meadow, supposed 20 5 0
to produce one load and a quarter per
acre, bush harrowing, rolling,
fencing, &c. at 5_s._ per acre
Mowing, making, stacking, thatching, 81 0 0
and fencing, at 20_s._
Eleven load cut from stack in 13 15 0
Havering Park in September, at 25_s._
Sixty-five acres not worth ploughing, 50 0 0
which had lain two or three years,
and from which Mr. Elsee meant to get
a crop of oats the last year, but Mr.
Driver and Mr. Ellis both requested
him not to plough it; to oblige them,
therefore, Mr. Elsee mowed it, and
got perhaps half a load an acre,
hardly worth the labour, it being
chiefly water grass and bracken.
Cost of getting in
Taxes upon this 146 acres at 10_s._ 73 0 0
per acre
From the above produce 119 loads were 140 6 6
sold, the charges on which were as
follows:—cart hire 13_s._ binding
3_s._ market hire 4_s._ 1_d._ extra
expences and turnpikes 6_d._ truss of
hay and feed while loading 3_s._
making together 23_s._ 7_d._ per load
£378 6 6
Proceeds, 472 6 0
highest
price
3_l._
18_s._ per
load,
lowest
price
2_l._
6_d._—119
loads
Waste hay, 46 0 0
say worth
Total 518 6 0
produce
Deduct 378 6 6
expences
Net £139 19 6
produce
Expences upon the 20 Acres of wheat carried to Chigwell.
Fallowing in 1818, ploughing four times, 60 0 0
harrowing, rolling, picking, &c
Seed wheat, fifty bushels, at 8_s._ per 20 0 0
bushel
Ploughing, sowing, &c. 20 0 0
Rent and taxes in 1818 20 0 0
Hoeing, weeding, &c. at 10_s._ per acre 10 0 0
Cutting, carting, and harvesting 20 0 0
Threshing, dressing, and delivery 20 0 0
Taxes in 1819, at 10_s._ 10 0 0
£180 0 0
Produce, 30 146 0 0
quarters 1
bushel of
wheat
13 load of 26 0 0
straw, at
40s. per load
Loss upon 8 0 0
this twenty
acres
£180 0 0
Loss upon 232 304 1 10
acres valued
to Mr. Ellis
Loss upon the 8 0 0
twenty acres
of wheat
312 11 0
Profit upon 139 19 6
146 acres of
grass
Net Loss of £172 11 6
398 acres
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