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A disposition to treat was universally expressed
at the Chapter at which I attended have this day been attending ing
provided the alienation were not so few, but only for as long
term such as 1000 years.
Eighty Acres was (the quantity of land allowed
at Battersea Rise) was the quantumquantity of land
allotted under the old system for 900 Prisoners.
This was the quantity I was to have had for the
51 5400 2700 persons above spoken of: being 1/6 1/3 part
only for the quantum proportionable quantityof land per head
under the old system.
What The quantum allowance proposed by the Dean and
Chapter amounts, instead of the whole 80 Acres, to a part
and that but a small part, 1/8th or so, of a spot
of 38 Acres, as the following account will shew —
Acres
56 1/2
Gross quantity of the Waste called Tothill Fields
deduct for the of amount of the line of twisting road necessary for p
the preserving of the existing communications,
(breadth of the road supposed 33 feet) according
to a measurement taken from the
plan upwards of ------- 10 1/2
Prepared for a lot to be dedicated allotted for
a Cricket ground for the Westminster Scholars
being an amount equal to that of the largest existing
Cricket Ground, being - - - 8
Remains, as above applicable to the purposes of the
Establishment — — — — 38
Amount of what the Dean and Chapter are
perfectly willing to give up, for pecuniary compensation for 6
but not without a pecuniary compensation — — —
Consent
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