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4 Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill.

seemed to prevail at one time (though at present all such
emotions seem very happily to have subsided) among some of
the leading people in the Parishes; who complained of the
body as disposed to exaction, and as manifesting something
supercilious in their Carriage, towards the Persons intrusted with
the management of the parochial concerns but no specific
grounds for any such charge present themselves. The Dean and
Chapter represent themselves as averse to litigation; and the truth
of this representation seems to be confirmed by appearances.
Many instances occur, of either indulgence, or inattention to their
rights: no instances of a contrary tendency have as yet reached
the writer of this Paper. In a Map of Tothill Fields in the
Possession of the Dean and Chapter; and dated no more
than about 30 or 40 years ago, 67 Acres or some such matter
is given as the quantity of the Land: and note not above
50 Acres, or some such matter, are to be found: the
difference must have crumbled away in encroachments.

In this age of improvement and increasing population, a
situation which, notwithstanding the disadvantages above spoken
of, possesses the advantage of vicinity to the River as well as
to the seat of government, could not escape the observation of
that Class of Builders to whom every uncovered Spot presents
itself as a Field for speculation.

The fate of the few Buildings that were got up, out of
a considerable number that had been intended to be erected, in
the form of a Square encompassing Deans Yard (a situation
possessed of one of the above advantages, viz: vicinity to the river,
in an equal degree, and of the other in a much superior
degree) has been registered for these forty years in the ruins that
have been the melancholy result of it. The ill success of that great
project (of which more will come to be said a little farther on)
did not quench the busy spirit of the Adams's, who in 1760
or within a year or two afterwards, while the new-built Houses in



Identifier: | JB/117/107/004
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Date_1

1794-07-07

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

117

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

107

Info in main headings field

case relative to the tothill fields bill

Image

004

Titles

case

Category

collectanea

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2 / f3 / f4

Penner

Watermarks

g & ep 1794

Marginals

Paper Producer

fr3

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

1794

Notes public

ID Number

38724

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