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Inhabitants of those Houses, to the House of Lords, which Petition is reprinted
in the above mentioned Pamphlet written by the abovementioned Dr Wilson
at that time one of the Prebends of Westminster and Curate of Saint Margaret's
How much stronger a case that was than the present, will appear
from the following passages in the Petition (being the whole of it except the
formal words at the introduction and conclusion) in which the —
sufficiency of such a ground as that of the present Bill is in a manner
admitted —
"The Bill if passed into a Law" say the Petitioners "will greatly
"injure your Petitioners in their properties, and will be the absolute ruin
"of several hundreds of Tradesmen and Artificers, who must be driven
"from their respective dwellings, to seek their Bread in places where they
"are unknown.
"And your Petitioners humbly submit to the consideration of your
"Lordships, whether such powers, as are contained in this Bill have in
"any instance been granted by the Legislature, where the object proposed has not
"been some great and public advantage.
That Your Petitioners apprehend, that the inconveniences proposed
"to be remedied by this Bill, are only imaginary; that the Evils which
"it would bring upon your Petitioners, are real and substantial; and
"the advantages to arise from it would be confined solely to the projectors
"and proprietors of the Houses to be erected in pursuance thereof"
The projectors there spoken of are His Grace the present Archbishop
of York (then Head Master of Westminster School) and a Mr Salter.
The Bill experienced (as under such circumstances it may well be
imagined it would) great opposition as well in as out of Parliament: it was
protested Petitioned against, not only on the part of the individuals whose houses
were consigned by it to demolition, but by the vestry of the united Parishes (e)
That it had not been framed however without great consideration and
the most respectable professional concurrence may be inferred from
the name of the first Earl of Mansfield, at that time Solicitor General
(the intimacy of whose connection with the principal of the two Petitioners
in behalf of the Bill, Dr Markham the present Archbishop of York
is so well known) together with the names of his three Brothers in Law
or Nephews in Law the Finches standing amidst a numerous and
illustrious assemblage of other names in a list of Commissioners appointed
in the Act.
(e) Review &c P. 25. —
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