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the Committee was adopted, and Messrs. Dalton and Jessett
informed thereof. On the 4th May, 1887, the Works Committee
resolved that the letter from Messrs. Dalton and Jessett, re the
diversion of Church Path from Mendora road to Delaford Street;
and the letter from Mr. C. Belton, on behalf of the United Land
Company, re the deviation of Church Path, Lillie Road, be referred
to the Vestry, and on consideration of the same by the Vestry at
their meeting on the 11th May, 1887, it was resolved that the
Vestry's previous resolution on the subject be adhered to.
bishop's meadow.
On the 7th July, 1886, the Metropolitan Member brought
under the notice of the Vestry the subject of the conversion of the
Bishop's Meadow into a recreation ground, and suggested that if
the Metropolitan Board of Works would subscribe one-half of the
cost the Parish should bear the other half, the payment to be
spread over a term of 30 or 50 years, and the matter was referred
to the Works Committee, who on the 14th July, 1886, directed the
Clerk to write to the trustees of the late District Board for any
information on the subject in their possession. At the meeting of
the Works Committee held on the 28th July, 1886, the Clerk produced
the reply of the trustees of the late District Board, in which
they stated that the meadow was conveyed to the late Board by
an Indenture of Conveyance from the Bishop of London and the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners, dated 7th August, 1884, conditionally
that the land be laid out and maintained as a public recreation
ground, and the Committee resolved to view same. On the 25th
August, 1886, following, the Committee viewed the meadow, when
the Clerk was instructed to call the attention of the Bishop of
London to the dangerous condition of the moat at the southeastern
corner near the entrance to the churchyard, and instructions
were given to the Surveyor to put up a post and rail, and fill up
the ground at a cost not exceeding £5, which were carried out.
Subsequently the Medical Officer of Health was instructed by the
Sanitary Committee to serve a notice on the Bishop of London to
have the moat cleaned out, which notice was complied with.
At the meeting of the Works Committee on the 5th January,
1887, the Clerk read a letter from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
as to the laying out of the Bishop's meadow, and the covenants
from the conveyance of the Bishop of London to the Trustees of
the late Fulham District Board, in which he conveyed the meadow