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of hours &c till the moment came for the commencement of their criminal
operations.

The immediate neighbourhood of the Waste is occupied in an
extraordinary proportion by public buildings of the meaner cast: — Prisons,
Poor Houses Almshouses Charity Schools, and Hospitals. The Waste itself affords
already a Scite to one Prison, called Tothill Fields Bridewell. There
is not a House of any account within view of it, but Grosvenor House
(occupied at present by Lord Belgrave) and that is very near half a Mile
from the proposed scite of the intended Penitentiary House Viz the Scite of the
above mentioned old Poor House.

The Five-Chimney Poor House affords lodgment to eight different
persons or families: who are put in by the Governors of the Poor of the
two united Parishes (Viz: Saint Margaret's and Saint John's incorporated
as to divers purposes by the 25th George 2d Cap: 23.) as also to the keeper
of the Waste, who is appointed by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster.

The Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at
"Westminster" being Lords of the liberty of Westminster, stand in relation
to this Waste in the predicament in which the Lord of the Manor stands
in relation to other Wastes. Hitherto they have never derived from this
their Seigniory the smallest pecuniary emolument their only advantage,
such as it is, consists in the having the appointment of the Keeper of the
Waste, who neither gives them any thing nor receives any thing from them,
on Account of his office.

In other points, the Dean and Chapter on the one part, and the
united Parishes on the other, are by no means agreed as to their respective
rights: the Inhabitants claim and exercise the right of pasture & depositing
Rubbish: this the Dean and Chapter do not oppose in fact, but say it is by
their allowance: and they claim a much greater right than what
belongs to the Lord of a Manor as such: Viz: the right of granting out
the soil on Lease, which they say they have exercised in divers instances
reckoning as one instance a grant made by them of the scite of the
Almshouses (Emery Hill's Almshouses) that occupy a great part of
Rochester Row. The Keeper's acceptance of his place, without a Salary from

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