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To Dr. Ingle Peter House College Cambridge.
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Sir.
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I would have answered your favour immediately but could not
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do it satisfactorely rental I had seen a Minute of a Resolution that
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I knew had been made by the Governors of the Hospital upon the subject
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of it, & I find that upon reading a Letter of Mr Marshall stating the
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Circumstances & expected Advantages to the Hospital of the proposed
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Inclosure, they approved the Measure & the proposed Appointment of Mr.
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Ingle of Mr. Pemberton to be the Solicitors, & Mr Marshall mentioned the
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Name of the Commissioner to be appointed by the Hospital respecting
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whom they were to enquire. you may therefore consider the Hospital
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as assenting to & appearing of the proposed Inclosure. I suppose Mr.
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Pemberton Name was joined will Me Inglis in Contemplation of
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that then intended joint Application of ParliamentI do not know
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the usage of the House of Commons in the united Application for Bells of
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Inclosure, but I doubt whether any Expence would be served by it, the
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Officer are very jealous of my Attempt to defeat them of their As ustage
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& would I think charge for three Bells, or so manage as to make them
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Charges equal to these Applications unless they be actually restrained
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by Order of the HousesUnless therefore considerable Expence is likely
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to be saved by a joint application it secures, circumstanced as you
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describe the other parishes to be, that a joint Act will not be desirable,
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& I much doubt whether the proceedings under the Act would be much
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lessened as the Number of the Mettings of the Commissioners would
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increased in proportion to the increased number of Clauses to their additional
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business. A great objection to Inclosures is the Expence of them; this
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is usually attributed to the legal part of the business, the Lawyers are
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the objects of concern, the Land Surveyors who are agricultural
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writers always are very free cut her cases of the legal part
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of the expenceAn the contrary I am satified from repeated expences
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that the great expence arises from the proceedings of the Commissioners
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An Inclosure of this Parish (Chestnut) is nearly finished; the Common
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was between 11 & 1200 Acres the Common meadows of commonfield laid
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between 15 &1600A the old Inclosure between 5 & 6000A. & I understand
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that more than £8000 has been raised & shamed; my preportion
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was more than £800 besides the subsequent expence of fencing &
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I do not impute to the Commissioners any improper management of
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the fees; they are respectable men, & have conducted themselves very
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handsomely & fairly towards the Proprietors. I only mention these Circum-
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stances to shew the necessity if considering whether some made mary
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not be thought of for keeping down the expenceI have he and of bargains
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with Commissioners for a Compensation of a certain seem per Acre & I
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think Mr. Marshall mentioned to me a Bargain of that Nature
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Our Commissioners were allowed by the Act but Guineas per day each &
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pay their own expences coming to, going from & attendg the meetings of
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the Commissioners, which I belive is the usual allowance, but no land
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surveyor of
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would think himself compensated by such an
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allowance & therefore they must have other mades of satisfying themselves,
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If any bargain be made other then the usual one of two guineas the
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day it must be made before that Bill goes into the House & inserted
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thereinI also
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take the liberty
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of recommending that the Commissioners
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meetings be confined to the Parish, or as there may be event of
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