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7 Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill.

As to the use made of the Waste by the Westminster
Scholars, as a place of exercise, there seems reason to think,
that in point of right, it has something more determinate than
mere usage in support of it: and that it is grounded on the
Charter of Queen Elizabeth, which is the Charter of Foundation of
that School. — For, in a pamphlet by D<hi rend="underline">r Christ<hi rend="underline">r Wilson, Prebendary
of Westminster, published in 1757, in opposition to the
Plan for making a Square in Deans Yard for the benefit of
the School, it is said "that the Royal and illustrious Foundress
"providing and assigning the very place, where the youths were
"to recreate themselves out of School hours, had shown herself as
"careful of their health and Liberty, as of their Studies and
"their Morals." Review of the Project for building a new Square at Westminster 8vo No P. 33.
London 1757: no Printers name.

Among the numerous Classes of cases, in which specific
rights of property are every day made to give way to public
exigence or even convenience, an instance is perhaps hardly
to be found, of a change so pregnant with advantage
to the general mass of Interests concerned, and at the same
time so clear of hardship. To the neighbourhood, it would
afford not only a negative Security, by the removal of the
source of danger above indicated, but a positive safeguard of
no mean account. For the Security of the Penitentiary House
itself, a numerous Watch, upon a Plan of uninterrupted
attendance, will be kept, without as well as within the House;
night as well as day: so that at all hours there will be an
armed force upon the Spot, unexposed & those jealousies, which
are apt to narrow the protection derivable from the military,
and in readiness to act, at a moment's warning, for the
quelling of Tumults, or apprehending of Malefactors. —

It would render the Spot, instead of an eyesore, an
ornament to the vicinity: by substituting, to the miserable Poor
House, a magnificent and elegant structure, and, to the
present combination of Swamps and Lay stalls, a cultivated Spot

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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	003	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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