Passing over Clerkenwell Green the other day, I Could
not forbear regretting that the intended Structure for a Court of
Justice, was so difficult of Access. A thought occurred to me,
which I take the Liberty to suggest, that Perhaps it may be
practicable to obtain a more convenient avenue, at least for
the Magistrates and others from the West and of the Town, if a
new Street could be opened from the West end of the Green, where
the House were lately bewint down, to some part of Hatton
Street

I find upon enquiry, that a great part of this Ground, is
Church Land, and forty years of the present tenure unexpired,
This Difficulty may however be settled perhaps without much
difficulty, if it can be made the interest of the general Partys to
comply

It cannot however, I apprehend be settled without an
Act of Parliament for this propose-and if the County was to
purchase the property for a teem of years and to let the Ground
to builders-It would not probally, in the end a loser

And as a further benefit to the County a bar might be
placed on that new Street with a very small toll-and as it
would save many people the trouble of a Circuit round
Hockley in the hole , it would properly be well frequented and
Assist in paying Interest

In this business I have no other concern than what
relates to the good of the comm [..] as [..]
informed this is an object much in the view of the Gentleman
I am addressing, and that there is no one ho is either a better
Judge of the Propriety of this Suggestion or better able to assist
in carrying it into Execution, if Likely to be beneficial, I shall be
Perfectly satisfied with Submitting it to the consideration of so
Competent a Judge

I am, with much Respect
thy Friend

John Fothergill< no role >