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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill.

liable to be warned off, and dealt with as Trespassers, as they
might be if it were private Ground. —

From this Circumstance, added to that of its comparative
Vicinity to the Kings residence, and to Westminster Hall, it
would afford (especially since St Georges Fields has been so
much overspread with Buildings) the readiest place of Meeting,
for any enterprize of insolence or hostility, against the King,
the two Houses of Parliament, or the Courts of Justice: and, should
disaffection ever spread among the Kings Guards would afford a
place of near and easy resort, to which the disaffected part might
repair, without exposing themselves to punishment, for desertion, non-observance
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, Alms-Houses, Charity Schools and
Hospitals. The Waste itself affords already a Scite to two Prisons
Tothill Fields Bridewell and another erected in lieu of the
Gate House, that stood at the end of Tothill Street. — 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.t the Scite of the abovementioned 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.t St. Margarets and
St. Johns incorporated as to divers purposes by the 25 Geo 2 Cap.
23) as also to the underKeeper of the Waste, appointed by the Keeper 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



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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

123

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

218

Info in main headings field

case relative to the tothill fields bill

Image

002

Titles

case / stating the grounds of the annexed bill for appropriating a part of tothill fields, to the reception of a penitentiary house, intended to be erected, under the penitentiary contract act, of the 7th july 1794

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2

Penner

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

fr3

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1794

Notes public

see note 3 to letter 1392, vol. 6

ID Number

41644

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