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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill

they have never derived from this their Seigniory the smallest
pecuniary emolument: their only advantage sch 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, and the United Parishes on the other, are by no means agreed
as to their respective rights: the Inhabitants claim and exercise
the rights of Pasture and depositing Rubbish: this the Dean
and Chapter do not oppose in fact, but say it is by their allowance:
and 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 have exercised in divers instances;
reckoning as one instance a grant made by them of the Scite
of the Scite of the Alms-Houses (Emery Hills Alms-Houses) that
occupy a great Part of Rochester Row. The Keepers acceptance of his
place, without a Salary from the Dean and Chapter, is a proof
(they say) of his taking Fees from the Inhabitants: and the
submission of the Inhabitants, to the Payment of such Fees is
a proof (it is added) of their not considering themselves as possessing
an independent right, a right that can stand without
a permission from the Keeper, which to that purpose is the
same thing with a permission from his principals. Painted
Boards are likewise frequently seen (though they frequently
disappear) forbidding Rubbish to be deposited, but under direction
of the Keeper, and forbidding absolutely the carrying off the
Soil, which however is oftentimes carried off, in Carts, by persons,
some of whom at least have been known to pay the Keeper so
much a Load for his permission or connivance. —

A sort of antipathy towards the Dean and Chapter seemed
to prevail at one time (though at present all such emotions
seem very happily to have subsided) among some of the leading
People in the Parishes; who complained of the body as

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	123	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	219	Info in main headings field	case relative to the tothill fields bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public	see note 3 to letter 1392, vol. 6	ID Number	41645
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