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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill

area reserved for the recreation of the Westminster Scholars)
was to have been divided into Streets lined with Capital Houses.
This plan, pregnant with magnificent Ideas, and emblazoned
in brilliant colours, so far engaged the attention of the Dean
and Chapter of that Day, that in the Year 1764, an
advertisement appeared in several of the Public Papers, inviting
Builders and others to take the Ground in Tothill Fields upon
Building Leases. The advertisement had not long been in print,
before it gave birth to a counter-advertisement from the Vestries
of the United Parishes, warning the Persons invited against
listening to the invitation. In the case of an ordinary proprietor,
the natural result of so adverse a proceeding would have
been an application to a Court of Justice for the purpose of
substantiating the right which is disputed. The value of the
subject matter, were the quantum of rent obtainable in the
event of successful adoption of the plan, to have been taken
for the measure of that value could not have been regarded
as being inadequate to the expence of a law-suit, even of
the most expensive kind. But whatever was the cause a doubt
with regard to the existence f so extensive a right, a doubt with
regard to the eventual success of the Plan,confirmed perhaps
by the silence of the Class of Persons to whom the advertisement
was addressed such has been the operation of these
causes, or some of them, upon a body pacific by profession
and in practice, so it is that from that time to the present
no Leases have been granted in pursuance of that advertisement,
nor have any legal steps been taken to establish the
right of making such grants. —

That in that instance the insuperable and one may
almost say radical unfitness of the Spot for the species of
improvement in question was at least among the causes of
failure, will appear the more probable, the more fully the
history of the attempt of a similar kind that have been made

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	123	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	220	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	f5 / f6
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public	see note 3 to letter 1392, vol. 6	ID Number	41646
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