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14 Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill.

that of the present Bill is in a manner admitted.

"The Bill, if passed into a Law" (say the Petitioners) "will
"greatly injure your Petitioners in their properties, and will be
"the absolute ruin of several hundreds of Tradesmen and Artificers,
"who must be driven from their respective dwellings, to seek
"their Bread in Places where they are unknown."

"And your Petitioners humbly submit to the Consideration
"of your Lordships, whether such Powers as are contained in
"this Bill have in any instance been granted by the Legislature
"where the object proposed has not been some great and Public advantage.

"That your Petitioners apprehend, that the inconveniences
"proposed to be remedied by this Bill, are only imaginary; that
"the evils which it would bring upon your Petitioners, are real
"and substantial, and the advantages to arise from it would be
"confined solely to the projectors, and proprietors of the Houses to
"be erected in pursuance thereof."

The Projectors there spoken of are — His Grace the present
Archbishop of York (then head Master of Westminster School) and a
Mr Salter.

The Bill experienced (as under such circumstances it may
be well imagined it would) great opposition, as well in as out
of Parliament: it was petitioned against, not only on the part
of the Individuals whose houses were consigned by it to demolition,
but by the Vestry of the United Parishes. That it had
not been framed however without great consideration, and the
most respectable professional concurrence, may be inferred from
the name of the first Earl of Mansfield, at that time Solicitor
General (the intimacy of whose connection with the principal
of the two Petitioners in behalf of the Bill, D<hi rend="underline">r</hi> Markham
the present Archbishop of York, is so well known) together with
the names of his three Brothers-in-Law or Nephews-in-Law,
the Finches, standing amidst a numerous and illustrious
assemblage

Identifier: | JB/117/110/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	110	Info in main headings field	case relative to the tothill fields bill
Image	002	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner		Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	38727
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