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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill.

as disposed to exaction, and as manifesting something supercilious
in their Carriage, towards the Persons intrusted with the
management of the Parochial concerns: but no specific Grounds
for any such charge present themselves. The Dean and Chapter
represent themselves as averse to litigation, and the truth of
this representation seems to be confirmed by appearances. Many
instances occur, of either indulgence, or inattention to their rights:
no instances of a contrary tendency have as yet reached the
writer of this Paper. In a Map of Tothill Fields in the
Possession of the Dean and Chapter; and dated no more
than about 30 or 40 years ago, 67 Acres or some such
matter is given as the quantity of the Land: and now not
above 56 Acres, or some such matter, are to be found: the
differences must have crumbled away in encroachments. —

In this age of improvement and increasing population,
a situation which, notwithstanding the disadvantages above
spoken of, possess the advantage of Vicinity to the River as
well as to the seat of Government, could not escape the observation
of that class of Builders to whom every uncovered Spot
presents itself as a field for Speculation. —

The fate of the few Buildings that were got up, out of
a considerable number that had been intended to be erected,
in the form of a Square encompassing Deans Yard (a situation
possessed of one of the above advantage, viz.t vicinity to the river,
in an equal degree, and of the other in a much Superior
degree) has been registered for these forty Years in the ruins
that have been the melancholy result of it. The ill success
of that great project (of which more will come to be said a
little farther on) did not quench the busy spirit of the Adams's,
who in 1760 or within a Year or two afterwards, while the
new-built Houses in Deans Yard were seeking in vain for
Tenants, came forward with a much greater project, according
to which the whole of Tothill Fields (excepting a small area

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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	002	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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