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Preamble

2
Ground chosen —

And whereas in pursuance of the said Act
a proper spot of ground at Battersea-Rise
consisting of 80 Acres or thereabouts [+] [+] of which the Fee
Simple was and is in
the Archbishop of York
in right of his See
and of which William
late Earl Spencer then
was and George John
now Earl Spencer now
is Lessee for lives
under the said See,
having
after great consideration and rejection of
divers other spots situations been at an interval
of upwards of two Years from the passing
of the said Act, to wit on or about the 18th of June
1782, approved of by the said Board of Controul
as the properest spot for the said purpose And and
as sufficient not only for one such that one of the said intended Penitentiary Houses for
which the same had been originally originally been chosen, but for [+]2
[+]2 both such Penitentiary Houses, the

price thereof was on the 10th day of Sept.
1782 duely assessed by the Verdict of a Jury at £6,600,
of which Verdict for the better exhibition ascertainment of the
parcels of the said Land a true copy is exhibited
by the Paper marked A in the Schedule
hereunto A annexed:



Identifier: | JB/124/037/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 124.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

1-4

Box

124

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

037

Info in main headings field

panopticon bill

Image

002

Titles

[[titles::chap. [ ] general panopticon-penitentiary act: or an act for the punishment and reformation of felons, by means of a penitentiary house of new invention, to be stiled the general panopticon penitentiary-house]]

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d1 / d2 / d3 / d4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

41726

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