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and recommend that in. consideration of the promised support of the Metropolitan
Public Gardens Association, the offer of the London County Council
be accepted.
On the 29th July, 1891, the same Committee recommended the Vestry,
that the offer of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to dispose of the vacant
land at the corner of Fulham Palace and Crown Roads to the Vestry for an
open space, for the sum of £1,250 per acre or £11,250 be accepted, and
that it be referred to the Law and Parliamentary Committee to carry out
the conveyance of the site, which recommendation was carried unanimously,
and at the same meeting the Finance Committee were instructed
by the Vestry to apply to the London County Council for a loan for the
Vestry's moiety for the cost of purchasing the site for the longest period
possible, and to consider whether the repayments can be made in equal
instalments of principal and interest on the annuity system, and the Clerk
was also instructed to write to the London County Council calling their
attention to the action pending with reference to the Lammas Eights, and
asking them what action they intended taking in the matter.
On the 9th September, the Clerk received instructions from the Vestry
to write to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners enquiring upon what terms
they would be willing to lend the Vestry, say, £6,000 (their moiety of the
cost of the purchase of the proposed open space in Fulham Palace Eoad)
for fifty years, or for the longest period possible, to be repaid in equal
instalments of principal and interest, and on the 23rd September, 1891,
the Clerk was instructed to make a similar application to the London
County Council.
On the 4th November, 1891, the Lammas Rights and Open Spaces Committee
reported to the Vestry that they had received a letter from the
Clerk to the London County Council, that the Parks and Open Spaces
Committee of the Council would be prepared to recommend the Council
to favourably consider the question of contributing towards the costs
incurred by the Vestry in the suits now pending, respecting Lammas
Rights in Fulham, but that prior to further considering the subject, the
Committee would be glad to be informed in detail of the nature of the
suits, the letter was referred to the Law and Parliamentary Committee.
They also reported on the same date, that having considered a communication
from the London County Council, requesting the Vestry to revise
their estimate of the cost of purchasing and laying out the recreation
ground, they had submitted a further estimate amounting to £7,357 5s.,
and recommended that application be made to the London County Council
for a loan for that amount in lieu of the previous application for £8,513,
which recommendation was carried.
At the meeting of the Vestry, on the loth November, 1891, the Solicitor
submitted draft agreement of the purchase from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
of the land at the corner of Fulham Palace and Crown Roads, and