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’s statement of the land mowed is in strict corroboration of the
printed particular, as given in to the arbitrator, in the following
document.
_Hay stacked at Windmill Hill_, _and disposed _Hay stacked at Havering Park_,
of by Mr. Elsee_. _and taken by the Crown and Mr.
Ellis_.
No. I. No. I.
_Acres_. _Acres_.
14 Bourne Bridge 12 5 Barn 12
mead
26 Long Mead 32 7 Forebury 20
27 New Mead 14 11 Brook 6
bottom
38 Part of twenty acres 4 40 Part of 28
Williper
hill
40 Part of Williper 16 — 66
Hill
44 Collier row hoppet 3
— 81
No. II. No. II.
_Waste Land_.
Windmill hill 16 41 Collier 20
row
Great sand hill 16 42 Ditto 10
Little sand hill 7 43 Part of 18
twenty
acres
Sixteen acres 16 45 Collier 29
row
Lodge Pen 4 77
Collier row 6 65 Deduct 11 66
cut of
146 132
Yet it was calculated by one Harding, who was a _jobbing carpenter_, that
256 loads were to be accounted for, besides the 123 valued to Mr. Ellis,
which makes 379 loads, that is 108 loads _more than the land could
produce_. The question here is, _how came this carpenter employed_?
_The arbitrators and umpire_, _one would think_, _might have measured a
hay-stack_, _without his aid_, _as they knew so well how to charge for
doing it_.—But they perhaps wanted some one _to bear out their
statements_, and the following anecdote will shew that Harding was finely
adapted for their purpose.
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