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8 Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill.

Spot, laid out upon a Plan, in which ornament would 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 entrusting their Children to that School. By the
Bill, in compensation for their undefined right of roaming
over the whole waste, an attachment 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 imployed in the largest of the Spots kept
up for the purpose of a Cricket-Ground in the Neighbourhood
of the Metropolis: about 11 Acres existed of about 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, then any part of the
Waste has ever been 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 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, not more than 4 or 500d Yards distant from
their present abode.

The 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; i: e: in the shape
of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	108	Info in main headings field	case relative to the tothill fields bill
Image	004	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	38725
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