The Barracks for the Household Cavalry are also in Knightsbridge, and not many years ago they were condemned as being unsanitary, and the present magnificent block built in their stead. From them to Kensington Gardens, there is nothing particular to note. [Illustration] LONDON: PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LD., ST. JOHN’S HOUSE, CLERKENWELL, E.C. FOOTNOTES: [1] Ancestor of the family of Mandeville, Earls of Essex. [2] A hide was 100 or 120 acres--as much land as one plough could cultivate in a year. [3] A Carucate was as much arable land as could be cultivated by one plough in a year, with sufficient meadow and pasture for the team. [4] A plough is the same as a Carucate. [5] These were not slaves, but persons used and employed in the most servile work, and belonging, both they and their children, and their effects, to the lord of the soil, like the rest of the cattle or stock upon it. [6] A Virgate was from 8 to 16 acres of land. [7] Bordars were peasants holding a little house, bigger than a cottage, together with some land of husbandry. [8] An History of the Church of St. Peter, Westminster, by R. Widmore, 1751. [9] John of Gaunt, brother of Edward III., and titular King of Castile. [10] Strype’s edit, of Stow’s Survey, ed. 1720. Book VI. p. 80. [11] Lord Burghley, High Steward of Westminster. [12] Who had formerly been a kind of companion to his wife. [13] England under the reigns of Edward VI. and Mary, by P. E. Tytler. Lond. 1839, vol i. p. 288. [14] Illustrations of British History, etc., by E. Lodge. Lond. 1791, vol. ii. p. 205. [15] The Duke of Anjou and his Court. [16] Keeper, whose duty was to shoot trespassing dogs, and foxes. [17] His lodge. [18] Correspondence of Lord Scudamore, Ambassador at Paris in 1635, etc., privately printed. [19] Vol. ii. p. 508. [20] _Mercurius Politicus._ January 29-February 5, 1657. [21] _Mercurius Politicus._ January 15-22, 1657, and _The Publick Intelligencer_, January 19-26, 1657. [22] _Mercurius Politicus._ February 12-19, 1657. [23] “Amusements Serious and Comical, Calculated for the Meridian of London.” Lond. 1700, p. 55. [24] “Environs of London.” D. Lysons, 2nd ed. vol. ii. part i. p. 117. [25] _Amelia_, by Hy. Fielding, ed. 1752. Book 5, ch. vi. p. 132. [26] Brit. Mus. 515. 1. 2/215 [27] Richardson. [28] The Duke of York, afterwards James II. [29] Whenever “the tour” is mentioned, the “Ring” is meant which was the most fashionable part. [30] Rox. ii. 379.--Lutt. ii. 147. [31] 1st Series, 2nd edition, 1862, p. 71. [32] The age of the Prince Regent. [33] Technically we were then at war with America--a war which began June 18th, 1812, and was ended by the Peace of Ghent, December 24th, 1814. [34] These mimic ships were drawn by artillery horses from the Thames side to the Serpentine. [35] _Morning Chronicle_, June 30, 1838; p. 4, c. 3.