JB/117/137/001

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It is now somewhat more than three years since
overtures were made on the part of Government
to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster for
the purchase of a part portion of Tothill Fields for the
purpose of the intended Penitentiary House, according
to the plan of division hereunto annexed,
by which other portions of the same Waste were
proposed to be allotted in severally to other parties
interested to claiming to be interested, in conformity
to what were supposed to be their rights, interests and wishes.

The Proposal was at <add>the first offer for</add> For some time the proposal appeared to have presented
itself in an acceptable point of view: and
the Dean and Chapter in a message to the
United Vestry of the two Parishes expressed a
probability mentioned their concurrence to it
as an event which at that time seemed probable.

Upon further consideration apprehensions were
reasons undiscovered for entertaining apprehensions undiscovered
but the proposed Penitentiary Establishment
by giving birth to a habitual concourse of otherwise bad company
connected with its intended inhabitants or by actual acquaintance
attracted towards them by similarity of habits
and dispositions, should in some one way or other
afford

Identifier: | JB/117/137/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1799-11-29	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	137	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	38754
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