JB/118/117/002

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of the 12 Judges, a decision given in this very instance,
in the instance of this very spot, when first fixed upon
for as many Penitentiary Houses: One in Wandsworth
Common Field for Females: this at Battersea Rise for
Males. People in Wandsworth were alarmed: people
in Battersea were alarmedL the Judges disallowed the
choice of Wandsworth Field, not because they considered
the alarms of neighbourhoods as sufficient grounds for
negativing such a choice, (for if they had they must
have rejected this spot as well as the other,) but because
they regarded this one spot as sufficient as well as proper
for both establishments.

As to this point, you Memorialist can not take upon
him, nor is it necessary, to say precisely of what description
the individuals were whose investments were meant to
be included in the above mentioned calculation of £200,000:
whether it included the whole number of individuals, at
whatsoever periods their respective investments had been
made, who conceived themselves aggrieved: or whether it
included, such only, whose investments had been made, at
periods subsequent to that, at which the taking possession
of the land for the purpose in question, became known
to have been suspended. Whichsoever of these suppositions
be the true one, it makes, with respect to the justice
of such claims, as your Memorialist humbly apprehends,
no sort of difference. So far as any such investment
took place previously to the aforesaid decision
of

Identifier: | JB/118/117/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	26
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	117	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d17 / d18 / d19 / d20
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39171
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