Statement Of Facts, On The Injurious Treatment Of J. Elsee, Esq.
John Elsee
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Statement of Facts, ON THE INJURIOUS TREATMENT OF J. ELSEE, ESQ.
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. Compiled in support of A RENEWED MEMORIAL TO THE COMMISSIONERS, AND PETITIONS TO PARLIAMENT. TO WHICH ARE ADDED NOTES , In Illustration of the Gross Abuses of the Forest Laws . WOOLER, PRINTER, GOUGH SQUARE. 1826. The statements which will be found in this pamphlet, will probably startle the minds of most persons who may
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Memorandum.
Memorandum.
Mr. Elsee proposes to carry the corn (wheat) from the two courses, No. 20 9 3 11   No. 23, 24, & 25 10 2 Acres 20 1 13 And also No. 27, beans 14 3 18 35 0 31 And to allow Mr. Ellis, an equivalent in good rotten dung, in lieu of the straw of the before mentioned, to be delivered upon the bean-field, No. 27, at the rate of so many cubic yards, to be ascertained after it is in a proper heap. Mr. Ellis to purchase the straw of the following wheat crops, due allowance being made for the dung
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Particulars of Land from the letting Catalogue.
Particulars of Land from the letting Catalogue.
No. Names of the Fields. Arable. Mead & Pas. Land mown   A. R. P. 1 House, homestead, &c.   2 3 1 2 Orchard 2 0 27 3 Plat 2 0 24 4   1 2 0 5 Barn field 13 5 12 6 Lodge field 16 3 32   7 Foreberry 21 3 0 20 8 Church plain 45 1 12   9 Ditto 0 3 32 10 Lower brook field 17 11 11 Ditto 6 3 33 0 12 Ditto 2 1 39 13 Bourn bridge mead 3 1 24 14 Ditto 13 3 19 12 0 15 Lower outer course 14 1 27   16 Lower inner ditto 10 0 4 17 Upper brook field 22 3 0 18 Lodge field ) in one 15 2 14 19 Shed
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Supposed Expences of this 132 Acres, sold to Mr. Ellis and the Crown, in Three Stacks.
Supposed Expences of this 132 Acres, sold to Mr. Ellis and the Crown, in Three Stacks.
  £ s. d. To bush harrowing, rolling, fencing, &c. at 5 s. per acre 33 0 Mowing, making, carting, stacking, thatching, &c. at 20 s. 132 Taxes, interest of capital, and labour 66 Forty-six acres fallowed in 1813, ploughing four times, harrowing, rolling, picking, &c. at 60 s. per acre 138 Twenty five acres of it dunged with good spit dung, 20 load per acre, at 10 s. per load 250 Rent and taxes in 1818 upon forty-four acres 46 Seed for one hundred acres, 250 bushels at 8 s.
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An Account of the Hay stacked at Windmill Hill.
An Account of the Hay stacked at Windmill Hill.
  £ s. d. Eighty-one acres of meadow, supposed to produce one load and a quarter per acre, bush harrowing, rolling, fencing, &c. at 5 s. per acre 20 5 Mowing, making, stacking, thatching, and fencing, at 20 s. 81 Eleven load cut from stack in Havering Park in September, at 25 s. 13 15 Sixty-five acres not worth ploughing, 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;
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Expences upon the 20 Acres of wheat carried to Chigwell.
Expences upon the 20 Acres of wheat carried to Chigwell.
Fallowing in 1818, ploughing four times, harrowing, rolling, picking, &c 60 0 Seed wheat, fifty bushels, at 8 s. per bushel 20 Ploughing, sowing, &c. Rent and taxes in 1818 Hoeing, weeding, &c. at 10 s. per acre 10 Cutting, carting, and harvesting Threshing, dressing, and delivery Taxes in 1819, at 10 s. 10   £180 Produce, 30 quarters 1 bushel of wheat 146 13 load of straw, at 40s. per load 26 Loss upon this twenty acres 8   £180 Loss upon 232 acres valued to Mr. Ellis 30
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