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I was given to
understand by
Them - 1.who
Sir
Upon attending the Dean & Chapterof Westminster hold this day,
I understood (/add> what I had occasion to observe of the disposition
of that body from conversation for they declined
<add>making a ate as from the Body committing any thing to writing as as follows.
1. There is a disposition to trial, but the first
condition mentioned, by the Bishopand that as a condition sine
qua non, the is that whatever allowance of
ground may be made, shall be made over, not
in fee, but only for the years — in length of
time objected to — 100- years acceded to — a
condition to which on my own partto this I see no
objection —
Other conditions were
I found a disposition to , on some such conditions
as the following —
1. That a part be allotted to Tothill Fields United Parishes, whereon to build a Poor House.
2. That another part be allotted to the Dean
and Chapter, for a Cricket Ground for the Westminster
Scholars.
3. That a thirdanother part be allotted to the Dean &
Chapter and Parish or
be improved by for their
building or otherwise.
4. That the remaining part remainder only &
that as small as possible, might be hand out to
the Crown, suppose for 1000 years, for the purpose of the Penitentiary
House. A wish pretty generally expressed was
to confuse the grant to the very site of the Building
itself, with no greater quantity of ground then
would be contained between that and the surrounding
Wall — [Diameter tot he principal building 18 feet. Space
occupied by the Building and Year, a square of 500 foot a side — content 6 Acres.] Whether
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draft of letter 1211, vol. 6 |
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