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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill

Yards as far as Tothill Fields, by which it is all along
bounded on the other side. This land has for its proprietor
a single person, (the Marquis of Salisbury) whose title is
without dispute and his right without control, unfettered
by settlements or Leases. The time is not exactly known,
but it was within these 6 or 8 Years, before, but not long
before, the breaking out of that war which has thrown all
improvements of their kind to so melancholy a distance, that
a projector of new Towns obtained so much credit with the
noble proprietor, as to have been let into possession of the
propriety, in confidence of his covering it with Streets and Squares,
upon a plan outvying in magnificence even that of the Adams's.
But, so compleatly did the event fail of realizing these brilliant
expectations, so impracticable was it found to procure so much
as a single foundation to be laid, that the object was no longer
how to get the land covered with buildings, but how to get it
back out of the hands of the projector or his assignees in its naked
state: nor was even this latter object attained without a
considerable sacrifice.(b)

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 Dr Chrisr 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 Heath and Liberty <hi rend="superscript">as</hi>

(b) Both plans— that of the Adams's for Tothill Fields, and
that for the Marquis of Salisbury's Estate— have been seen by
the writer of these pages. —

Identifier: | JB/117/113/002 "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	113	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	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	38730
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