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Tothill Field Bill § 14
Old Poor Houses
§ 145
Power to pull down
the Five-Chimney
Poor House

And whereas towards near the Southern extermity
of the said Waste there exists anantient Old and decay'd pile of
buildings encompassed by the said Waste on all sides
buildings in a dea known by the name
of the Five Chimneys and f antiently. viz:
about in the time of the Great Plague which
was in the year of out Lord 1667, used as a
Post-House, and since and at present occupied
by the Churchwardens and Overseers or Governors of
the Poor of the said Parishes of St Margarets
and St John's or one of them and by them
employ'd as a Poor House by permitting or
and appointing shows poor persons and poor families to
to dwell therein to the number of eight or nine
families over and above the Family of the
person acting under the appointment of the
said Dean and Chapter as Keeper of the
said Waste. And whereas the said Old Poor
House of suffered to continue would interfere
with the intended site of the said intended
Penitentiary House and the free residence of continuance
and free residence of the said Poor [+] together with
the free resort
ingress of and regress
of themselves
and persons having
resort to them
persons and families [+] would be altogether incompatible
with the security and good order
of the said intended Penitentiary House. Be
it further enacted that immediately upon
entry made upon the said portion marked
A for the purposes of that Act in manner aforesaid
it shall and may be lawful to or for the said so

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