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its is all along bounded on the other side. This Land has for its proprietor a single Person (the
(Marquis of Salisbury) whose title without dispute, and his right without controul unfettered by
settlements or Leases. The time is not exactly known, but it was within these 6 or 8 years before, but not
long before the breaking out of that War which has thrown all improvements of this kind to so melancholy a distance,
that a projection of new Towns obtained so much credit with the noble proprietor as to have
been let into possession of the property, in confidence of his covering it with Streets and Squares upon
a plan outrying in magnificence even that of the Adams's. But so compleatly did the event
fail of realizing these brilliant expectations so impracticable was it found to procure so much as a
single foundation to be laid, that the object was no longer how to get the land covered with
Buildings, but how to get it back out of the hands of the projectors or his Assignees in its naked state, nor was
even this latter object attained without a considerable sacrifice. (b)

As to the use made of the Waste by the Westminster Scholars, as a place of exercise,
there seems reason to think that in point of right it has something more determinate than mere
usage in support of it. and that it is grounded on the Charter of Queen Elizabeth, which is
the Charter of foundation of that School.—— For in a pamphlet by Drr Christ..r Wilson, prebendary
of Westminster, in opposition to the Plan for making a Square in Dean's-Yard for the benefit of
the School it is said "that the Royal and illustrious Foundress proving and assigning the
"very place, where the Youths were to recreate themselves of School Hours, had shewn herself
"as careful of their Health and Liberty, as of their Studies and their Morals."

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