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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill. —

be combined with use. —

To the Westminster Scholars, it would afford an advantage
as flattering as it would be new and unexpected. At present
whatever benefit they reap from the use of that dreary and ill-looking
expanse, in the way of sport and exercise, is subject to
the perpetual intrusion of mean dangerous and unwelcome
company, of all sorts: a source, an apparent one at least,
of corruption, which of itself has been known to operate with
effect in the minds of Parents, as an objection to their intrusting
their Children to that School. By the Bill, in compensation
for their undefined Right of reaming over the whole
waste, an allotment is made to the Scholars for their separate
use, giving them for their recreation a spot of Ground, the
most elevated, healthy, and pleasant in the whole waste;
a retired corner containing more than half as much Ground
again as is employed in the largest of the Spots kept up
for the purpose of a Cricket-Ground in the Neighbourhood
of the Metropolis: about 11 Acres instead of between 6 or 7 —
And this appropriated Cricket-Ground, besides being fenced
off, might and would, be put into such a state as to be
much better adapted to the purpose of that pastime, than
any part of the Waste has ever been in as yet. —

As to the Paupers, the Present Inhabitants of the Poor-House
and their Successors, they will be put in the same plight
and condition they are in in at present, with no other difference
than the having a new House to live in instead of an Old
one, and without removing farther than to another part of
the same Waste, and not more than 4, or 500d Yards distant
from their present abode. —

Th other Parties interested (viz the Dean and Chapter
and the Inhabitants of the United Parishes,) will have their
compensation, partly in Money partly in Kind, v: e: in
the shape of an Allotment out of the Waste: and at any rate

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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	002	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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