JB/120/076/001

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Charges against White

18 Mar. 1802

§. |^^^|. Charges against Joseph White Esquire
Sollicitor to the Treasury.

After the general charge of the conspiracy.

2. That whereas by a letter of direction transmitted
to him on or about the same day between
the 2d and 4th of May 1799 in pursuance of a
Minute of the Board of Treasury dated
of the 2d of May 1795 directing him directions were
given to him by authority of the said Board requiring him
to prepare an agreement a Contract or Agreement for and previous to the then
intended and scarce {in part} compleated purchase
of the Estate of the Marquis of Salisbury at Milbank
Westminster the said Joseph White on
being applied to by and on behalf of the parties interested+
did instead of declaring his readiness to
obey such directions as are duty bound, did openly and
in the presence of them the said Edward Estcourt and
Jeremy Bentham pertinaciously and repeatedly declare his determination not to
execute the said directions prepare any such previous
Contract or Agreement: and that accordingly
by reason of such disobedience of the said Sollicitor to the
said directions of the said Board no such Contract or Agreement was ever entered
or drawn up.

did in pursuance of the said conspiracy and with a
view determine with himself to avoid if possible the
paying any obedience to such direction: and in pursuance
of such determination, and on being applied to the occasion
of a joint application made to him on the 4th of May
1795 by+ did openly and in the presence of them the
said Edmund Estcourt and Jeremy Bentham declare
his utter disapprobation of the measure which by the said
his determination not to prepare any agreement for
the said purpose letter he was directed to carry into effect; and
did thereupon moreover declare his determination not the prepare
any such agreement or by the said letter he was directed to
prepare, but to proceed upon the Conveyance its confine his
proceeding to the preparation of the Conveyance itself; he then
said

+ to wit Edmund
Estcourt Esquire Sollicitor
to the Stamp Office
and the Agent of the
said Marquis in
respect of the said
Estate and Jeremy
Bentham Esquire
Barrister at Law
to whom as Feoffee
under the Act of
34 G.3. c. 84 the
conveyance of the
said Estate was to
have been and since
has been made.

Identifier: | JB/120/076/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 120.
Date_1	1802-03-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	120	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	076	Info in main headings field	charges against white
Image	001	Titles	charges against joseph white esquire / sollicitor to the treasury
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	39902
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