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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill. —

As to the use made of the Waste, by the Westminster Scholars,
as a place of exercise, there seems reason to think, that in point
of right it has something more determinate than more usage in
support of it: and that it is grounded on the Charter of Queen
Elizabeth, which is the Charter of Foundation of that School. —
For in a Pamphlet by Dr Christ.n Wilson, prebendary of
Westminster, published in 1757, in opposition to the plan for making
a Square in Deans Yard for the benefit of the School, it is
said "that the Royal and illustrious Foundress, providing and
"assigning the very place, where the Youths were to recreate
"themselves, out of School Hours, had shewn herself as careful of
"their Health and Liberty, as of their studies and their Morals"(c)

Among the numerous Classes of cases, in which specific
rights of property are every day made to give way to Public
exigence or even convenience, an instance is perhaps hardly to
be found, of a change so pregnant with advantage to the general
mass of Interests concerned, and at the same time so clear
of hardship. To the Neighbourhood it would afford not only
a negative Security, by the removal of the source of danger
above indicated, but a positive safeguard, of no mean account.
For the Security of the Penitentiary House itself, a numerous
watch, upon a Plan of uninterrupted attendance, will be kept,
without as well as within the House; night as well as day:
so that at all hours there will be an armed force upon the
spot, unexposed to those jealousies which are apt to narrow
the protection derivable from the military, and in rediness to
act, at a moments warning, for the quelling of Tumults
or apprehending of Malefactors. —

It would under the Spot instead of an eyesore, an ornament
to the Vicinity: by substituting to the miserable Poor-House,
a magnificent and elegant structure, and, to the
present combination of swamps and laystalls, a cultivated
Spot, laid out upon a Plan in which ornament would be

(c) Review of the Project for building a new Square at Westminster — P 20
P 33 — no Printers name. —

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	123	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	221	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	f7 / f8
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	41647
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