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1793-8-11

My Lord
Three or four and thirty years ago the
hand which now addresses you was not unknown to
you (The occasion of its now troubling your Grace
is as follows It may perhaps be in your Grace's the
recollection of your Grace that in the month of Sept:r 1782
in virtue of the provision created by the Act of 19.G3 ch.74 commonly
called the Penitentiary Act a piece of land
at Battersea-Rise wherein your Grace in right
of the your See fo yr and the late Earl Spencer were jointly
interested, after great consideration was pitched upon to be purchased as the fittest possible for the site of the
then intended Penitentiary Houses, the value
found assessed by a Jury at £6600, and every thing done towards
the completion of the purchase, but the payment paying
of the money, which was to have been issued
by the Treasury. The plan was to have been execution was to have been conduct of the establishment
executed under the direction of three Supervisors
Sir Gilbert Elliot, Sir Charles Bunbury and
Dr. Bowdler, among of whom only the two latter alone
acted upon the occasion abovementioned I am speaking of. A joint
invention of my Brothers and mine has enabled
me to form a plan for carrying into execution
the

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Date_1	1793-08-11	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	401	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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