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Passing over
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Clerkenwell Green
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the other day, I Could
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not forbear regretting that the intended Structure for a Court of
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Justice, was so difficult of Access. A thought occurred to me,
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which I take the Liberty to suggest, that Perhaps it may be
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practicable to obtain a more convenient avenue, at least for
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the Magistrates and others from the West and of the Town, if a
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new Street could be opened from the West end of the Green, where
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the House were lately bewint down, to some part of
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Hatton
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I find upon enquiry, that a great part of this Ground, is
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Church Land, and forty years of the present tenure unexpired,
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This Difficulty may however be settled perhaps without much
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difficulty, if it can be made the interest of the general Partys to
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comply
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It cannot however, I apprehend be settled without an
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Act of Parliament for this propose-and if the County was to
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purchase the property for a teem of years and to let the Ground
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to builders-It would not probally, in the end a loser
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And as a further benefit to the County a bar might be
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placed on that new Street with a very small toll-and as it
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would save many people the trouble of a Circuit round
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Hockley in the hole
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, it would properly be well frequented and
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Assist in paying Interest
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In this business I have no other concern than what
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relates to the good of the comm
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as
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informed this is an object much in the view of the Gentleman
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I am addressing, and that there is no one ho is either a better
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Judge of the Propriety of this Suggestion or better able to assist
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in carrying it into Execution, if Likely to be beneficial, I shall be
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Perfectly satisfied with Submitting it to the consideration of so
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Competent a Judge
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I am, with much Respect
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thy Friend
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John Fothergill
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