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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 above mentioned Dr. Wilson
at that time one of the Prebends of Westminster and Curate of Saint Margarets.

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 the 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
"being 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 the Westminster School) and a M.r 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
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 D.r 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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123

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panopticon

Folio number

210

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001

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copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

1

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recto

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c9

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[monogram] propatria [britannia motif] 1795]]

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Paper Produced in Year

1795

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ID Number

41636

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