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Stating the Grounds of the annexed Bill for appropiating part of
Tothill Fields, to the reception of a Penitentiary, intended to be erected,
under the Penitentiary Contract Act, of the 7th July 1794. —
The waste spot, known by the name of Tothill Fields, contains at
present in the gross, about 58 Acres; including the Scite of Rochester Row
and that of the Old pile of Buildings, called the Five Chimnies, used in
the time of the great plague as a pest House(a), and for this long time, and
probably ever since that time, as a Poor House (which two Scites together
may occupy about two Acres of the extent) and the space employed in
Roads, which may occupy about six or eight Acres.—
The Westminster Scholars, as stated in the Bill, make use of the
waste as a Cricket Ground — A considerable part of it, to the amount of —"—
several acres, is in a swampy state, both Summer and Winter: a much more
considerable part, in Winter: the whole of the portion lying behind Rochester
Row, amounting to upwards of six acres, is altogether unproductive; being
without a single blade of Grass upon it: and a considerable part of the
remainder, is equally bare of Herbage, the Surface being continually covered by
fresh Loads of Rubbish, promiscuously shot down upon it. —
The situation has been noticed, in popular Songs, as a place of resort
for disorderly and dishonest Company: and, for the purpose of seditious meetings
and enterprizes, it could, so long as it continues in its present state, afford
at any time a spot but too commodious: commodious, not only by reason
of the magnitude of its expanse, nut on account of its being common land,
that is a spot on which persons of all descriptions and designs, have a
right to place themselves, and in any numbers, without being liable to be
warded off, & dealt with as Trespassers, as they might be if it were —"—"—
private Ground.—
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