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Two thousand, Five hundred pounds, and the Sum of
One Hundred and Twenty five pounds per Annum shall
be applied to the maintenance of the Rector over and
above all Surplus fees, dues &c. Easter offerings excepted –

Sect 3 Power of the Treasury to accept instead
of the perpetuity a lease for 1000 years &c

This I should apprehend would be the most eligible
mode of obtaining possession of the Land in question.
Tothill fields have been so long an appendage to
the Brotherhood of St Peter at Westminster that I
very much question if the smallest trace of the original
grant remains. They They have probably been held, at
least from the time of Edward the Confessor, and altho
the feudal restraints upon alienation are worn away,
and as much obliterated from the mind of man, as
from the Statute Book, yet I very much question
whether the legislative assembly would not pause
before they entirely, for any pecuniary consideration suffered
the Dean and Chapter to give up an estate which
had for ages been held in Mortmain* * Here fall in the several disabling Statutes of the 1st 13 and 18 Eliz &c the enabling state 32 Henry &c (Hale). The same
objection, tho the advantage to the purchaser and the public will
be the same, does not hold to their granting a lease
for even so long as a term of years, provided that in the
said lease, a certain rent is reserved to them and their
successors, in this case the purchase money or rather
fine will be considerably reduced.

It may here be necessary to remark that with respect
to the old buildings called the Five Chimneys there is as I
am informed a possibility that the possessors of some of the
Houses may claim a right independent of the parishes of St
Margt and St John: namely the right which long and undisturbed
possession gives. Some of these Houses have been sold as freehold
and the inhabitants have voted at Elections for the County &c

Identifier: | JB/117/128/003 "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	128	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles	observations on the tothill fields inclosure bill
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::coles 1795 [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	patrick colquhoun
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1795
Notes public		ID Number	38745
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