JB/117/113/004

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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill.

giving them for their recreation a spot of ground the most
elevated, healthy, and pleasant in the whole waste, a retired
corner, containing more than half as much ground again
as is employed in the largest of the spots kept up for the
purpose of a cricket ground in the Neighbourhood of the
Metropolis: about 11 Acres instead of about 6 or 7. — And this
appropriated cricket—ground, besides being fenced off, might
and would, be put into such a state, as to be much better
adapted to the purpose of that pastime, than any part of
the Waste has ever been as yet.

As the Paupers — the present Inhabitants of the
Poor House and their successors — they will be put in the same
plight and condition they are in at present, with no other difference
than the having a new House to live in instead of an
old one, and without removing rarther than to another part
of the same Waste, nor more than 4 or 500d yards distant
from their present abode.

The other Parties intrusted (viz: the Dean and Chapter
and the Inhabitants of the United Parishes) will have their
compensation, partly in money partly in kind i.e.: in
the shape of an allotment out of the Waste: and at any rate
will have something instead of nothing.

As to the bulk of the Inhabitants, what herbage the Waste
affords, being in point of right shared amongst so many
thousands (the number in S<hi rend="superscript">t</hi> Margarets alone being estimated
at 12,000) can be no object to any one. The Interest of the consideration
Money for the portion proposed to be purchased
would be an object of some account, if applied in case of the
Poor—rates (or rather (to make the distribution of the compensation
money the more equal and apposite) in case as
is proposed of the Scavenger's rate: that being a rate to
which many Inhabitants pay, who by poverty are excused
from the Poor—rate: as appears by the 25th Geo. 2d Ch 23. above

Identifier: | JB/117/113/004 "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	004	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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