Excerpt from New York, Vol. 2: Old New; Its Story, Streets, and Landmarks Bayard, and Peter Jay thus became lessees of the Bowling Green at an annual rental of one pepper corn, and when this lease expired it was re newed for another eleven years on payment of twenty shillings per annum. We are not told how long the Green continued to be devoted to the sport of bowls, but it comes again into view in August, 1770, when it was made to furnish a site for an equestrian statue of George III., set up by the provincial assembly as a token of popu lar gratitude for the repeal of the Stamp Act. The following year it was ordered Whereas the General Assembly of this Province have been at the great expense of sending for an equestrian statue of his present majesty and erected the same on the Bowling Green, before his ma jesty's fort in this City, and this Board conceiving that unless the Green be fenced in the same will very soon become a receptacle for all the filth and dirt in the neighborhood, in order to prevent which it is ordered that the same be fenced with iron rails, with a stone foundation, at an expense of eight hundred pounds. The stones and fence then put in place still surround the Green, shorn, however, of the crowns which originally orna mented the tom of the pillars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.