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HYDE PARK
ITS HISTORY AND ROMANCE

publishers mark

Art Repro. Co.

The Four-in-Hand Club in Hyde Park.
From and old print in the Grace Collection, British Museum.

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HYDE PARK
ITS HISTORY AND ROMANCE

BY
MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE
(Ne HARLEY)

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS

NEW YORK
JAMES POTT & CO.
LONDON: EVELEIGH NASH
1908

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CONTENTS

CHAP.		PAGE
I.	Introduction
II.	A Royal Hunting-Ground
III.	Vagaries of Monarchs
IV.	Under the Commonwealth
V.	Fashion and Frivolity
VI.	Masks and Patches
VII.	In Georgian Days
VIII.	Early Chronicles of Tyburn
IX.	Beneath the Triple Tree
X.	Nineteenth-Century Fragments
XI.	Duels in the Park
XII.	The Peoples Park
XIII.	Nature in the Park
XIV.	The Evolution of the Carriage
APPENDIX
List of Trees, Shrubs, and Plants in Hyde Park
Index

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Four-in-Hand Club in Hyde Park
Execution of Earl Ferrars	Facing p.
Map of Westminster, illustrating Charter of King Edgar, granted to Dunstan
Bathing Well in Hyde Park
Henry viii.
The Cheesecake House, to which the Duke of Hamilton was carried mortally Wounded
Queen Henrietta Marias Penance at Tyburn
Prostitute Drummed out of Hyde Park
Tyburn Ticket, Preserved in Guildhall
Drinking Well in Hyde Park
Entrance to Hyde Park on a Sunday
Map, 1725
Molly Lepell, afterwards Lady Hervey
Map, 1746
The OriginalTattersalls, and St. Georges Hospital
Maria Countess of Coventry, ne Gunning
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
Marble Arch at Three oclock in the Morning
London Bridge
Jack Sheppard
Jonathan Wild pelted by the Mob on his Way to Tyburn
The Execution of Catherine Hayes at Tyburn
Camp in Hyde Park during Gordon Riots, 1780
Winter Amusements
Jubilee Fair in Hyde Park, 1814, to Celebrate the Fall of Napoleon
Lady Blessington
Festivities on the Ice, 1857. By John Leech
Cumberland Gate
A Camp Kitchen
An Airing in Hyde Park, 1793

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

The following books have been consulted in the compilation of this volume:

Stows Annals.

Hollinsheds Chronicles.

Bakers Chronicle.

Whitelocks Memorials of English Affairs.

Northuek.

Macaulays History of England.

Humes History of England.

Lingards History of England.

Craik and Macfarlanes Pictorial History of England.

Domesday Book. Translated by Sir Henry James.

The Chronicle of the Greyfriars. (Camden Society.)

Lytteltons History of Henry II.

Gilbert Burnetts History of my Own Times.

State Papers. Public Record Office.

MSS. from Muniment Room. Westminster Abbey.

Stricklands Queens of England.

Rileys Memorials of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Centuries.

Archologia.

Stows Survey of London. (Strype.)

Dean Stanleys History and Memorials of Westminster Abbey.

Knights London.

Walfords London Old and New.

Wheatleys London Past and Present.

Timbs Curiosities of London.

Larwoods The London Parks.

Ashtons Hyde Park from Domesday to Date.

Jesses London: its Celebrated Characters and Remarkable Places.

Malcolms Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London.

Besants London in the Eighteenth Century.

Fullers Worthies of England.

Drakes Shakespeare and His Times.

Osbornes Historical Memories on Reigns of Elizabeth and James I.

Elliss Original Letters.

Diary of John Evelyn. Edited by Wheatley.

Diary of Samuel Pepys. Edited by Wheatley.

Memoirs of the Comte de Gramont. Trans. by M. Boyer.

Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield (2nd).

Colley Cibbers Apology for the Life of C. C.

Defoes Narrative of Jack Sheppard.

Thomas Browns Amusements, Serious and Comical.

Strutts Sports and Pastimes of the People of England.

Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Mrs. Eliz. Montagus Lady of the Last Century.

Letters of Horace Walpole. Edited by Mrs. Paget Toynbee.

Letters of Lord Hervey.

Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield (4th) to Dayrolles.

George Selwyn and his Contemporaries.

Some Account of the Military, Political, and Social Life of the Rt. Hon. John Manners, Marquis of Granby. By W. Granby.

Stephens Literary and Social Life of the 18th Century.

Autobiography of Madame Piozzi. Hayward.

Wraxalls Historical Memoirs of My Own Times.

Thackerays Four Georges.

Fitzgerald Molloys London under the Georges.

Diary of the Hon. William Windham. Edited by Mrs. Baring.

The Two Duchesses of Devonshire. Vere Foster.

Life and Letters of Lady Sarah Lennox. By the Countess of Ilchester.

Roseberys Life of Pitt.

William Wilberforce and His Friends.

Ashtons When William IV. was King.

Pastons Sidelights on the Georgian Period.

Journal of Charles C. F. Greville.

Cooks Tyburn Chronicle.

Dr. Millingers History of Duelling.

Mrs. Stones Chronicle of Fashion.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Thomas Carlyle.

Kingstons Romance of a Hundred Years.

Report of Historical Commission on MSS.

DAvenant.

Wilsons Memoirs of Wonderful Characters.

Richard Daveys The Pageant of London.

The Letters of Queen Victoria. Edited by A. C. Benson.

Treason and Plot. By Major Martin Hume.

Calendar of Spanish State Papers. By Major Martin Hume.

Execution of Earl Ferrers. From Print in Old and New London.
The populace flocked to hangings at Tyburn, and filled the grand stand.

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