APPENDIX No. 25. HORSE RIDE IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.
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To the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty.
The Memorial of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex,
Humbly Sheweth,
That the Vestry aforesaid, believing that the admission of the riding public into Kensington Gardens, however it may conduce to the recreation of equestrians, is inconsistent with the comfort and the safety of the public in general who visit the gardens, and that the riding public have already great and numerous facilities for horse exercise, pray that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to direct that the Royal Gardens may be restored to their former and long established state, and that pedestrians only may be admitted thereto, as heretofore.
And your Majesty’s memorialists will ever pray.
Chas. Lahee, Vestry Clerk.
Given under the common seal of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea, this fourth day of August, 1860.