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.

by John Elsee

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 5s. per acre				33	0	0
Mowing, making, carting, stacking, thatching,&c. at 20s.				132	0	0
Taxes, interest of capital, and labour				66	0	0
Forty-six acres fallowed in 1813, ploughingfour times, harrowing, rolling, picking, &c. at 60s.per acre				138	0	0
Twenty five acres of it dunged with good spitdung, 20 load per acre, at 10s. per load				250	0	0
Rent and taxes in 1818 upon forty-fouracres				46	0	0
Seed for one hundred acres, 250 bushels at8s.				100	0	0
Ploughing, sowing, harrowing, preparing seed,&c. at 20s.				100	0	0
Hoeing, weeding, and fencing, at 10s.per acre				50	0	0
Reaping, harvesting, carting, stacking,thatching, &c. 20s.				100	0	0
Housing, threshing, dressing, and carryingout, at 20s.				100	0	0
Taxes at 10s. per acre				50	0	0
Expences				1165	0	0
Mr. Mee’s valuation	279	18	0
159 quarters of wheat	580	11	0
Produce				860	9	0
Total Loss				£304	11	0

An Account of the Hay stacked at Windmill Hill.

				£	s.	d.
Eighty-one acres of meadow, supposed toproduce one load and a quarter per acre, bush harrowing, rolling,fencing, &c. at 5s. per acre				20	5	0
Mowing, making, stacking, thatching, andfencing, at 20s.				81	0	0
Eleven load cut from stack in Havering Park inSeptember, at 25s.				13	15	0
Sixty-five acres not worth ploughing, whichhad lain two or three years, and from which Mr. Elsee meant toget a crop of oats the last year, but Mr. Driver and Mr. Ellisboth requested him not to plough it; to oblige them, therefore,Mr. Elsee mowed it, and got perhaps half a load an acre, hardlyworth the labour, it being chiefly water grass and bracken. Cost of getting in				50	0	0
Taxes upon this 146 acres at 10s. peracre				73	0	0
From the above produce 119 loads were sold,the charges on which were as follows:—cart hire 13s.binding 3s. market hire 4s. 1d. extraexpences and turnpikes 6d. truss of hay and feed whileloading 3s. making together 23s. 7d. perload				140	6	6
				£378	6	6
Proceeds, highest price 3l. 18s. per load,lowest price 2l. 6d.—119 loads	472	6	0
Waste hay, say worth	46	0	0
Total produce	518	6	0
Deduct expences	378	6	6
Net produce	£139	19	6