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5 Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill.

in Deans Yard were seeking in vain for Tenants, came forward
with a much greater project, according to which the whole of
Tothill Fields (excepting a small area reserved for the recreation
of the Westminster Scholars) was to have been divided into Streets,
lined with — Capital Houses. This plan, pregnant with magnificent
Ideas, and emblazoned in brilliant colours, so far engaged the
attention of the Dean and Chapter of that Day, that in the Year
1764, an advertisement appeared in several of the Public Papers,
inviting Builders and others to take the ground in Tothill Fields
upon Building Leases. The advertisement had not long been in
print, before it gave birth to a counter-advertisement from the
Vestries of the United Parishes, warning the Persons invited against
listening to the invitation. In the case of an ordinary proprietor,
the natural result of so adverse a proceeding would have been
an application to a Court of Justice for the purpose of substantiating
the right which is disputed. The value of the subject matter
were the quantum of rent, obtainable in the event of a successful adoption of
the Plan, to have been taken for the measure of that value,
could not have been regarded as being inadequate to the expence of a lawsuit,
even of the most expensive kind. But, whatever was
the cause — a doubt with regard to the existence of so extensive
a right — a doubt with regard to the eventual success of the
Plan, confirmed perhaps by the silence of the Class of Persons to
whom the advertisement was addressed — such has been the operation
of these causes, or some of them, upon a body, pacific by profession
and in practice, that, from that time to the present, no
Leases have been granted in pursuance of that advertisement,
nor have any legal steps been taken to establish the right of
making such grants.(a) note after this

That in that instance the insuperable, and one may almost
say radical, unfiteress of the Spot for the species of improvement
in question, was at least among the causes of failure,
will appear the more probable, the more fully the history of the



Identifier: | JB/117/108/001
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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

117

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

108

Info in main headings field

case relative to the tothill fields bill

Image

001

Titles

Category

collectanea

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / f6 / f7 / f8

Penner

Watermarks

g & ep 1794

Marginals

Paper Producer

fr3

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

1794

Notes public

ID Number

38725

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