Lewisham Antiquarian Society, 
Eigbteenth Annual Report, 1902. 
The Council has the pleasure to present the Eighteenth 
Annual Report. During the year seven meetings have been 
held. 
7TH JANUARY. Meeting in the Parish Church Hall, when papers 
were read: (1) on ‘‘Medizval Lavatories,” by Edward 
W. Brabrook, Esq., c.B., F.S.A., Vice-President of the 
Society; (2) ‘‘Fonts and their Sculptures,” by George 
C. Druce, Esq. Both were illustrated by a number of 
lantern slides. 
28TH JANUARY. Seventeenth Annual General Meeting in the 
Parish Church Hall. Lecture, illustrated by lantern 
slides, on ‘‘Underground Greenwich,” by W. E. Ball, 
Esq., LL.D., President. 
25TH FEBRUARY. Meeting in the Parish Church Hall, when 
A. R. Goddard, Esq., read a paper on ‘‘Nine Men’s 
Morris,” an old Viking game, illustrated by numerous 
diagrams. Herbert Jones, Esq., F.Ss.A., member of the 
Council, gave a brief description of the Roman Villa 
recently discovered in Greenwich Park. Leland L. Duncan, 
Esq., F.S.A., read a paper on ‘‘Some Glimpses of Lewis- 
ham in the 14th Century,” with extracts from the Court 
Roll of the Manor. R. Garraway Rice, Esq., F.S.A., 
member of the Council, gave a lantern exhibition of old 
buildings, tombs and other objects of antiquarian interest. 
11TH Marcu. Meeting in the Court Hill Schools, when Leland 
L. Duncan, Esq., F.s.A., read papers: (1) on ‘‘The 
Attempt made in 1614 to enclose the Common of West- 
wood, which covered the ground now occupied by 
Sydenham”; (2) on ‘‘A Letter to the Rev. Abraham 
Colfe, dated 1642, hitherto unpublished, which gives some 
particulars of the place as seen by a London Puritan”; 
(3) on ‘The Action by the Rev. Abraham Colfe to recover 
Tythes withheld by certain parishioners in 1653.” 
