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17 Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill.

divisible Land, compared with the numbers of the Shares, would
scarce afford to each of them a Spot big enough to Stretch himself
upon: and in that case the very expence of Fencing (to say
nothing of Draining) would of itself be more than sufficient to
eat up the whole value of the Subject to be divided. (a) (a) Number of Acres, remaining after allowance made for
Roads and an Allotment of 10 or 11 Acres clear for the Westminster
Scholars, about say 40: Number of Inhabitants, in Saint Margarets 12,000;
in Saint John's 8000: (Saint John's appointing 20 out of the 50
joins Vestryment to 30 of Saint Margarets) Total 20,000 divided
by 5 to obtain the number of Householders, 4,000. But, upon
a Plan of Division such as that, the particular accidental Interests
just spoken of, would be more compleatly and irremediably
sacrificed, than upon the Plan here proposed. Those to whom
it is now of the most value would have no greater share than
any one of the Thousands to whom, in its present state it is of
no value at all.

Another Impediment which of itself might be sufficient to
prevent any future and different Division of Improvement of
the Waste, is the uncertainty that prevails (as already stated)
with regard to the proportionable quantities of Interest, as between
the Dean and Chapter as Lords, on the one Hand, and the
Inhabitants aforesaid as Commoners on the other. This uncertainty
will be continually increasing, while by Encroachment, (a practice of
which the spot
in question affords
not a few examples)
the very subject matter itself will be as continually crumbling
away. The Benefit reaped by the Dean and Chapter being
nothing, and the benefit to the Commoners being in the Instance
of a vast Majority of them next to nothing, neither Party has
ever found any adequate Inducement for engaging in that
Tedious and expensive course of Litigation, without which, in
the ordinary mode of proceeding, the Uncertainty could not be
removed; particularly the Dean and Chapter, a body composed
of Individuals mostly advanced in Life, and whose Interest in the Premises

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	111	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	f17 / f18 / f19 / f20
Penner		Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	38728
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