[36] The “Book of Fame,” by Geoffrey Chaucer; printed by Caxton, 1486 (?) [37] Dais. [38] _Punch_, June 29, 1850. [39] This was no mandarin, but the shipper of a Chinese junk, then on exhibition, who had dressed himself gorgeously, and obtained admission somehow. [40] 6s. iv. 172. [41] The writer saw the messenger returning from the King at _Kensington_, and the execution. [42] “Celebrities of London and Paris.” 3rd Series, 1865. [43] The Bishop of Durham is a Prince Palatine, as well as a Bishop, and on entering his palatinate used to be, and may be now, girt with a sword. [44] “A ramble thro’ Hyde Park; or, the Humours of the Camp.” London, 1722. [45] Oil-cloth. [46] Then called Buckingham House. [47] Next in rank to gunners. [48] Really, 841 cavalry and 7351 infantry. [49] The barrels and locks of the muskets of that date were bright and burnished. Browning military gun-barrels were not introduced till 1808. [50] The then Chief Commissioner of Police. [51] This Mr. Walpole denied in a letter to _The Times_, July 26th. [52] So called because it was there that the Reform League used to hold their meetings. [53] 35 and 36 Vic. C. 15 (June 27, 1872); by which it is set forth in the first Schedule, “That no person shall deliver, or invite any person to deliver any public address in a park, except in accordance with the rules of the park.” [54] A police inspector specially active in pursuit of Anarchists--knowing all their haunts, etc. [55] Now Sir E. Lawson, Bart., editor of _The Daily Telegraph_. [56] 1000_l._ [57] Then Chief Commissioner of Police. [58] Probably meaning Sunday, 24th March. [59] Now the French Embassy, and the London and County Banking Company. [60] In a plan of “Part of Conduit Mead”--about 1720--the little stream is called “Aye brook.” [61] “Memoirs of the Embassy of the Marshal de Bassompierre to the Court of England in 1626,” p. 138. Translated. Lond. 1819. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Hyde Park from Domesday-book to Date, by John Ashton