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not to poison. (I Speak not from surmizes
but records) I wished to rid myself once
for all of the temptation to committ safe
murder for great gain, and accordingly
after a hard struggle prevailed to have
retained in the Contract the clause binding
me (in consideration of what was
deemed an adequate premium) to pay £100
for every death.

Ld Spencer, on the report estimate <add> <add>report of his Steward
who, I believe has been the prime mover of all these aggravations
estimates at <add>below even £2,000 and £3,000 a
year the detriment that may accrue to
his Son (to whom he pointed on the occasion)
by an adherence to the old choice,
quoting two instances in which persons who had been in
treating for taking land of him on I know
not what advantageous terms, had broke off
in hearing of the Penitentiary House. Hopeless
of justice, I would most gladly bind myself
to take the land upon those terms whatever they
were, and in short indemnify this poor family
from the apprehended injury, according to their
own estimate

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Date_1	1796-04-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	018	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public	uncredited original of letter 1136, vol. 5, and there dated c.28 may 1796; also printed in bowring, xi, 113-114	ID Number	3319
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