William ALSTON of Bradwell [4706]

  General Notes:

Agreement for Lease
Essex Record Office
Deeds of land in Danbury, Sandon, Woodham Walter etc.
Reference Code:D/DC 22/35
Dates of Creation:10 December 1806
Agreement for Lease for 15 years from 1806, at an annual rent of £820
Sir William Hillary of Danbury Place, bart., to William Alston of Woodham Walter, gent.
The Place Farm, with the barn and land called the Wilderness, The Great Park, The Little Park, Grove Filed, Barn Farm and the barn in it, Upper Chuch Farm, Lower Church Farm, Little Church Farm, Upper Long Farm, Lower Long Farm, Road Farm, "the fore and after crop of 6 acres of the meadow called Press Mead, the after crop from Lammas day to 1 May of the remaining 2 acres of Press Mead ( 133 acres)", Sheepens Farm And Home Farm, Lower Stoney Farm, Upper Stoney Farm, Thistle Farm, Rushey Farm, Rushey Farm, Pond Farm, Cowhouse Farm, Brook Farm, the Chasered Marsh Farm, Loris Five acre Mead, Eight acre Mead, Fiteen acre Mead, Round Mead and Long Mead (136 acres) Tobitts Farm, Barn Farm, Tobitts Herbage Farm, Four acres Farm, Furze Farm, and the Park, Round Croft and Sixteen Acres, Shed Farm, Hither Hern Farm, Further Hern Farm, and Cockrills, Tobitts Mead, Two Acres in East Mead and the Eleven acres, (109 acres), all in Woodham Walter, formerly of John Royce, now of William Alston.
Ref: M Terbrack 2013.

William died aged 40, he had property in Bradwell and 1000 acres in Long Tillingham Marshes, and Asheldham, where there is a family vault.

Will to be searched at ESS PRO 1799 William Alston gent of Asheldham not searched 2006
Ref 301 ER 35

Was this family related to the Alston's of Bradwell Abbey?

  Research Notes:

Image courtesy M Terbrack 2013

Alston 1805-1811
http://www.essex-family-history.co.uk/tenantsmarshhousefarm.htm

Sporting Trespassers,
Bury Assizes.
THELLUSSON Versus ALSTON AND OTHERS. (Jan 1800)
ON Saturday, the 16th instant, at Bury Assizes, a writ of enquiry of damages was executed before the sheriff, attended by a counsel for the parties, and by a gentleman at the bar as his assessor, for the purpose of assessing the damages in an action of trespass brought by Peter Isaac Thellusson, of Rendlesham, in the county of Suffolk, Esq. against William Alston, of Munden, and Mr. Edmund Hammond, of Lachingdon, both in, the county of Essex, in which they had suffered judgment by default.
The Jury, which was special, and a most respectable one, awarded to the plaintiff damages to the amount of 70 pounds. It appeared by the plaintiff's evidence, that the defendants, who are qualified, had, upon the 30th, of January last, come upon the plaintiff's grounds, and within a short distance of his house, for the purpose of sporting, and that they had persisted in shooting in his covers, notwithstanding they were told by the plaintiff they were upon property in his own occupation, and were repeatedly warned against continuing upon his lands. That not contented with this, they had returned on the following day, accompanied by a Mr. Pulham, an attorney, at Woodbridge, who professed to come for the purpose of seeing his friends righted; had again commenced sporting upon the same spot-were again warned from the premises by the plaintiff and his servants; they behaved with much insolence to the former threatened to shoot him, or anyone who should attempt to molest them-had actually pointed their loaded guns at the servants! and on being turned off the lands, had threatened to return the following season, with as many good shots as they could procure, for the purpose of thinning the plaintiff's pheasants.
No evidence whatever was called on the part of the defendants; and it would seem that their unjustifiable conduct upon this occasion had originated in two notions, which have been most unaccountably entertained: the one; that a verbal notice, not to come upon the land of another, is not sufficient to render a subsequent trespass wilful and malicious, but that such notice must be in writing. The other; that the notice does not attach until the following day; and the defendants had actually contended, that though warned off in the morning, they were entitled to their day's sport over the plaintiff's lands, without being liable to be considered as wilful trespassers.
The absurdity of such notions would not admit of their being entertained a single moment in a Court of Justice; the defendants had abandoned them, by suffering judgment by default; and their own counsel,upon the execution of enquiry, admitted them to be untenable upon the very first statement.
In a subsequent action, brought by one of Mr. Thellusson's tenants against the same defendants and Mr. Pulham, the attorney, for a trespass after verbal notice, a verdict was taken by consent, assessing the damages at 5 pounds. Besides the above damages, tho defendants will have to pay all Mr.Thellusson's costs of suit, as well as their own.
(The foregoing report of these Sporting Trespasses is copied verbatim from the Chelmsford Chronicle, and that this article may be complete, we subjoin the following Letter of the Defendants to the Editors of thatPaper.)

To the Editors ef the Chelmsford Paper .
GENTLEMEN,
HAVING read in your paper of the 15th instant, a partial account of the trespasses committed on the 30th and 31st of January last upon Mr.Thellusson's lands in Rendiesham, you will insert certain facts omitted in that statement;
Mr. Thellusson has omitted to state that he mounted the carpenter's horse, and rode to the spot where Messrs. Alston and Hammond were shooting on the 30th
That he accosted them in a great passion
That he collared one of them
That he sent for his double-barrelled gun
That he ordered his gamekeeper to take away their guns, who actually did seize and take a gun from one of them
That he obliged them to give up their certificates, and go to the porch of his house after they had told him their names and places of abode
That he kept them at the outside of his door as long as he thought proper, and then sent them with his keepers and other servants to the common road, where he ordered the gun to be delivered up.
That the defendants went on the 31st for the purpose of resenting Mr.Thellusson's conduct on the preceding day
That they took Mr.Pulham with them to be a witness what might pass
That they desired Mr. Thellusson to be sent for, who came up again with a host of servants in a bullying manner, and ordered the guns to be taken away
That one of the guns was again forcibly taken away by Jennings, the gamekeeper, whilst an underkeeper held a bludgeon over Mr.Hammond's head, and endeavoured, by sideling up to the butt-end of his gun, to get it away; Jennings, at the same time, threatening Mr. Hammond, by telling him that he would rip out his bowels, and lay them upon the land
That Mr. Pulham told Mr.Thellusson, if he had behaved like a gentleman to his friends, the day before, and asked them to go away, they would have done so, but that he had no right to take the law into his own hands by collaring them, or taking away their guns
That Mr. Thellusson's servants by their gestures and abusive language, behaved extremely ill to the defendants
That Mr.Thellusson encouraged their behaviour, and said he would take all upon himself
That the defendants went out of the field immediately, after the gun was given up, into the road, where Mr. Thellusson came with his servants and some of his volunteers, who bullied as before, and followed them nearly half a mile, until the defendants took shelter at a public house
That Mr. Thellusson intruded himself into the defendants room at the inn, and strutted in an impudent manner several times up and down the room, saying, who dares turn me out
That he then sent his host of servants to watch the defendants wherever they went, who followed at their heels the rest of the day, and watched during the time they were at Mr. Morris's house, and afterwards until they got into their chaises to return home
That the defendants never after went upon Mr.Thellusson's, or any of his tenant's lands.
These are the mighty trespasses of which so much has been made; the public will now be able to estimate the value of a clod of earth, or a spear of grass in the month of January; for, as to abusive language, the defendants have much more reason to complain than the plaintiff.
To the truth of the above statement we pledge ourselves, so far as it concerns us respectively.
Wm. Alston, Edm. Hammond, J As. Pulham.
Ref: Chelmsford Chronicle Jan 1800.
(Peter Isaac Theluson who in 1806 was raised to the peerage with the title of Baron Rendlesham. In 1800 he was MP for Castle Rising - M Terbrack)

William married Anne SEWELL [4707] [MRIN: 466], daughter of William SEWELL [19296] and Rosamund BRADFORD of Mundon [19297], on 23 May 1792 in St Matthew Bethnal Green Tower Hamlets LND. (Anne SEWELL [4707] was born about 1772 and was buried in St Pancras London.)