JB_107_187_002.xml

Title: [Contract Amendments A o 1800 (2 West]

Description: Contract Amendments A o 1800 (2

West by the Wharf called the Thames Bank Wharf.

in the tenure or occupation of John White Carpenter together with the Carpenters Yard therewith occupied and

the slip of Land leading from the said Wharf and

Yard to and upon the Waste called Tothill Fields

and used principally as a private Road between the said

Wharf and the said Waste and in the North by

the said Waste containing in the whole by estimation

fifty three Acres two Roods and fourteen Perches

Lot B consisting of a Piece or Parcel of Land in

the tenure or occupation of Richard Minton and Thomas

Child respectively, and bounded on the East by Slip

the said Waste called Tothill

Fields, in the South by a part of the said Slip of Land

in the occupation of the said John White, in the West

by Meadow or Pasture Land in the tenure or occupation

of Walter Belcher & Robert Fuller —

and in the North by the Road called Rope Walk

Road or the Willow Walk leading in the direction

of Rochester Row to and from the said Waste called

Tothill Fields, the said Lot B containing in a low along the

said Tothill Fields by estimation 1500 feet or thereabouts,

925 275 50 575 1500 and in Square Content ten Acres two Roods

and 32 Perches: in which said Lot B is also

included such portion of the said Slip of Road as

lies between the rest of the said Lot B, and the said

Lot A, containing by estimation in length 275 feet

and in breadth 34 feet

] or thereabouts,

JB_118_203_001.xml

Title: [9 M r. Bentham's Memorial]

Description: 9

M r. Bentham's

Memorial

In proceeding to sollicit the intimation of Your

Lordships 8 Grounds of Memorialists expectations in

regard to the quantities of land. pleasure, in relation to

the quantum and parcels of land, to be annexed to the said Penitentiary

House, it seems necessary for Your Memorialist previously to submit the

state of his wishes, and expectations in relation

thereunto, together with the grounds thereof,

which are as follows, viz: —

The quantity of the Ground, in the Estate at Battersea

Rise, which formed the basis of Your Memorialists proposal (as

submitted in the Year 1793) and which was accordingly intended, to

have been allotted to the said Establishment, amounted (as recited in the

said Act of the 34 th

year of his Majesty's Reign +) to 79

acres and one Rood: in round numbers + c. 84. 80 Acres.

Under the original Penitentiary plan, grounded on

the Act of the Year 1779, # this same Estate had

been intended to be # 19. G. 3. c. 74. allotted to the

number of 900 Prisoners: a number which was not in any event to have been

increased; and for none of whom was any provision intended to be made

therein, after the expiration of their respective

terms of imprisonment.

The land then and there in question, was — not only in a situation eminently desirable and valuable, but

(as appears from the parcels thereof as recited in the said Act) the whole

of it in a state of separate ownership, and high culture. —

In the now intended Penitentiary Establishment, under

the said Act of 1794, // the number of Prisoners

for which Your Memorialist // 34 G. 3. c. 84. was

originally, in conformity to his said proposal, to have made provision on

the said Estate, containing 80 Acres, or on such Ground as should be

JB_120_392_001.xml

Title: [§7 Breach of faith 3 rd Mr Wise's Land]

Description: §7 Breach of faith 3 rd Mr Wise's Land

Mar 19 1799 June 19 1800 12 Aug 1799

E.2. M r Bentham to M r Long. 12 Aug. 1799

armed Letter - Inclosing Wise's offer - Terms exorbitant - no unwillingness

to sell - no hardship in correcting the exorbitance by the Act.

Not sent -

Inclosing Smith's offers

for Wise -

Armed Letter -

Demand for those Lots

Reasons for employing

powers of compulsive

purchase —

Inclosed I have the honour of transmitting to you two

Letters from M rSmith, China man, N o22 Strand, Agent to

Henry Wise of the Priory near Warwick Esq r, containing offers

of two parcels of land of his, contiguous or near to Tothill

Fields, for the purpose of making up the spot to be allotted

to the Penitentiary House. One of them, for distinction sake, I

call the Tothill Fields Slip; the other, the Willow Walk Estate.

At the same time, lest the act of transmitting them should

be regarded as involving on my part a sort of tacit approbation, it seems

incumbent on me to observe, the the price demanded appears

in both instances too high; and, in the instance of

the Tothill Fields Slip, so much so, as to be more than

as high again as that of the best part of Lord Salisbury's

Ground. M r Smith is, and for many years past, has been,

the known and sole Agent of M rWise, in respect of his

concerns in Westminster, which are various and extensive.

My language to him on the subject has been uniform -

that matters of this sort are transacted by Government according

to settled and unbending rules- (a) that there was need

of one at least of these Estates - that these existed on the

part of Government disposition to pay liberally for it according to those

rules, and power to take it on those terms that M rWise

would have neighbour's fare - and that the neighbour I

alluded to was L d Salisbury. His first intention was

(and, if I do not misrecollect, it was his own idea, not

mine) to make the offer general, and not clog it with the

demand of any specific price: and he parted from me

in the declared intention of making it so, although for his

guidance in point of form, I had shewn him an exact

copy