Persons attending a place of worship are of course quite precluded from taking a walk round the grounds when they come out, and before they go home, the grounds being closed so early.
The comforts and rest of the inmates of the Royal Hospital need not be interfered with, as the public could be shut off the central part at a certain hour, if thought desirable, and all might leave the grounds by the eastern and western entrances; and if the additional hour’s duty be thought too much for the pensioners, three or four policemen additional, or other attendants, could be provided at a very small additional expense.
Your Memorialists therefore respectfully request that you will consider the foregoing, and give directions that the regulations for closing the said grounds may be assimilated to those of Battersea Park.
And your Memorialists will ever pray.
Chas. Lahee,
Vestry Clerk.
Given under the common seal of the said Vestry, this 17th day of July, 1860.
From A. Austin, Esq., Office of Works, &c., to the Vestry Clerk.
3537.
Office of Works, &c.
23rd August, 1860.
Sir,