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ments for the School Festival extended their original design,
and erected a number of seats behind the places reserved for
the school children. These were all readily let, and after
defraying all expenses and supplying a small deficiency in
the contributions towards the cost of the School Festival, a
sufficient surplus was left to pay a debt of £175 on the
National Schools, and to defray the cost of a Jubilee
memorial window in the Parish Church.
The foregoing arrangements were planned and carried
out by Vestrymen as individuals, and not in any corporate
capacity beyond that of a Voluntary Committee, for the
formation of which the Vestry afforded a most convenient
basis. In their official capacity the Vestry agreed upon a
loyal and dutiful Address to the Queen, which was presented
in due course by the Home Secretary, and very graciously
received by Her Majesty. The following is the text of the
Address:—
TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
The humble, loyal, and affectionate Address of the Vestrymen of the
Parish of St. James, Westminster, in Vestry assembled.
Most Gracioos Sovereign,—
We, your Majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects, the Rector,
Churchwardens, and Elected Vestrymen of the Parish of St. James, within
the Liberty of Westminster, in Vestry assembled, humbly approach your
Majesty with feelings of unmingled joy to offer to your Majesty our most
sincere and heartfelt congratulations upon the happy completion of the
Fiftieth Year of your Majesty's most beneficent reign, and a renewed
assurance of our devoted loyalty and affection to your Majesty's Throne
and Person.
We heartily join our fellow subjects in all parts of the world in devout
thankfulness to Almighty God for the innumerable blessings which He
has been graciously pleased to vouchsafe to your Majesty and to the Nation