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Memorandum of a contract or Agreement made this day of March
one thousand eight hundred between John Donne of Milbank in the Liberty
of Westminster Nurseryman and Jeremy Bentham of Lincolns Inn in the county
of Middlesex and also of Queen Square Place in the City of Westminster Esquire.

Whereas under and by virtue of an Act passed in the 34th Year of his
Majesty's reign and intitled an Act for erecting a Penitentiary House or Houses
for confining and employing convicts (34.G.3.c.84 7th July 1794) powers are
given to the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being to fix upon a proper
spot of Ground for the purpose of such Penitentiary Establishment as aforesaid,
and to appoint a Feofee by whom and in whose name such spot
shall be purchased and holden in perpetual succession in Fee simple. —

And whereas under and by virtue of the said powers a spot of Ground
late the Estate of the Marquis of Salisbury at Milbank aforesaid hath lately been
purchased in manner aforesaid of the sair Marquis by the said Jeremy Bentham
as sole Feofee appointed by the said Commissioners —

And whereas in and by the said Act it is further provided that such
Feoffee shall over and above the purchase money for the Owner or Owners of such
Ground, make or tender such satisfaction, in money or otherwise, to the several
Occupiers being Tenants for Years or from year to year or at Will of the same,
or of any parcel or parcels thereof, in respect of their several rights and interests
in the Premises, as such Feofee shall in his discretion think fit —

And whereas the said John Donne is one of the Occupiers of the said
Estate viz: as a Tenant for Years under a Lease granted to Francis Elton by
the said Marquis then Earl of Salisbury which said Lease will expire on the
25th day of March one thousand eight hundred and one —

And whereas the parcels comprized in the said Lease consist
of a Nursery-Ground, containing by admeasurement several
Acres, one Road and few Perches or thereabouts in the occupation of him
the said John Donne, and of divers Tenements holden of him by divers persons
as Tenants at Will, which said Tenements, together with the names of the respective
Occupiers, and their respective Rents are exhibited in the Schedule marked X, and hereunto annexed.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	174	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	1798 am
Marginals		Paper Producer	frances wright
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public	see note 2 to letter 1516, vol. 6	ID Number	38791
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