JB/117/112/002

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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill

and designs, have a right to place themselves, and in any
numbers, without being liable to be warned off, and dealt
with as Trespassers, as they might be if it were private Ground.

From this Circumstance, added to that of its comparative
vicinity to the King's residence, and to Westminster Hall, it
would afford (especially since Saint Georges Fields has been so
much overspread with Buildings) the readiest place of meeting,
for any enterprize of insolence or hostility, against the King,
the two Houses of Parliament, or the Courts of Justice.

The immediate Neighbourhood of the Waste is occupied
in an extraordinary proportion of public Buildings of the
meaner cast: Prisons, Poor-Houses, Alms Houses, Charity
Schools and Hospitals: The Waste itself affords already a
Scite to two prisons Tothill Fields Bridewell, and another,
erected in lieu of the Gate-House, that stood at the end of
Tothill Street. There is not a House of any account within
view of it, but Grosvenor-House (occupied at present by Lord
Belgrave) and that is very near half a mile from the proposed
Scite of the intended Penitentiary House, Viz. the Scite of the
abovementioned Old Poor-House.

The Five-Chimney Poor House affords lodgment to eight
different persons or Families: who are put in by the Parish
Officers of St Margarets; as also to the Under Keeper of the Waste,
appointed by the Keeper, who is appointed by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster.

The "Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St
"Peter at Westminster" being Lords of the Liberty of Westminster,
stand, in relation to this Waste in the predicament in which
the Lords of the Manor stands in relations to other wastes.
Hitherto they have never derived from this their Seigniory the
smallest pecuniary emolument: their only advantage, such
as it is, consists in the having the appointment of the
Keeper of the Waste, who neither gives them any thing, nor
receives any thing from them, on account of his office.

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Identifier: | JB/117/112/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1794-07-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	112	Info in main headings field	no. 3 case relative to the tothill fields bill
Image	002	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	38729
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