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the Chairman of the Lammas Rights and Open Spaces Committee) attended
on the 1st December, 1890, at 3 p.m., with six horses belonging to the
Vestry, at the bottom of Peterborough Lane, and then described the course
taken in leading the horses over the Lammas Lands; and, in reply to various
letters received with reference to the action of the Surveyor in asserting
the rights of Lammas over certain property on the 1st December, and asking
whether the Surveyor was acting by the instructions of the Vestry, and,
if so, who would accept process, the Vestry instructed the Clerk to inform the
writers of the resolution of the Vestry authorising the action of the Surveyor,
and giving them the name and address of the Vestry's solicitor.
On the 14th January, 1891, the following letter was received from the
London County Council:—
Spring Gardens, S.W.,
4th December, 1890.
Sir,
I have laid before the Parks and Open Spaces Committee your letter of
the 3rd ultimo, asking what steps the Council intend to take with reference
to the assertion of Lammas rights in connection with the Town Meads,
Fulham.
In reply, I have to inform you that the Council's Solicitor is making
inquiries as to the evidence which would be forthcoming, and will lay the
same before Counsel, for him to advise as to the sufficiency of such evidence
and the best mode, if any, of commencing an action to assert the Lammas
rights. On the receipt of Counsel's opinion, the Committee will make a
recommendation to the Council in the matter.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
H. DE LA HOOKE,
Clerk to the Council.
The Lammas Rights and Open Spaces Committee reported to the Vestry on
the 21st of January, 1891, as follows:—
That, having considered a letter from the Assistant Solicitor to the
London County Council, asking for the names and addresses of any person
or persons who can remember turning out their cattle on the Town
Meadows, they have instructed the Clerk to advertise for information in
the West London Observer and Fulham Chronicle, and have resolved to meet
on Tuesday, the 20th inst., at 7.30 p.m., the Clerk in the meantime to
write to any persons whom he thinks possess any knowledge on the subject,
inviting their attendance, so that their evidence may be taken down.
That having received a letter from Mr. John Lirnpus, of 13, Barclay
Road, stating that he had been in the habit of turning out his cattle on the
Town Meads without his rights being disputed; they have instructed the
Clerk to forward a copy of the letter to the London County Council, together
with any further information he may be able to get by interviewing
Mr. Limpus.
That having taken down certain information respecting the Lammas
Lands, given by Mr. Walden, they have instructed the Clerk to transmit a
copy of same to the Solicitor of the London County Council.
That having interviewed Mr. Bichard Bull, of Peterborough Cottages,
Bagley's Lane, Fulham; Mr. George Ward, Contractor, Bagley's Lane,