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would afford as place of near and easy resort, to which the disaffected part
might repair, without exposing themselves to punishment for desertion, non observance
of houses &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, Alms
Houses, Charity Schools and Hospitals. The waste irself affords already a Scite
and that erected in
consequence of pulling
down the Gatehouse two Prisons, called Tothill Fields Bridewell, and another erected in lieu of the Gate House that stood at the end of
Tothill ect There is not a House of any
account within view of it, but Grosvenor House (occupied at present by Lord
Belgrave) & that is very near half a Mile from the proposed scite of the —
intended Penitentiary House, viz.t 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
four united parishes: (viz.t Parish Officers of Saint Margaret's & St. 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 & Chapter of Westminster.

"The Dean & 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, & the
United Parishes on the other are by no means agreed as to their respective
rights: the inhabitants claim & exercise the right of pasture & depositing —"—
Rubbish: this the Dean & Chapter do not oppose in fact, but say it is by —
their allowance: & they claim a much greater right than what belongs to the
Lord of a Manor as such: viz.t 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 the Dean
& Chapter, is a proof (they say) of his taking Fees from the Inhabitants —

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	123	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	201	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] propatria [britannia motif, bell motif] 1795]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1795
Notes public		ID Number	41627
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