E-text prepared by MWS, Brian Wilcox, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 56485-h.htm or 56485-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/56485/56485-h/56485-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/56485/56485-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/hydeparkitshisto00alecrich Transcriber’s note: Italic text is denoted _thus_. Bold text is denoted =thus=. HYDE PARK Its History and Romance [Illustration: Publisher’s mark] [Illustration: _Art Repro. Co._ _The Four-in-Hand Club in Hyde Park._ _From and old print in the Grace Collection, British Museum._] HYDE PARK Its History and Romance by MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE (_Née_ HARLEY) With Illustrations and Maps New York James Pott & Co. London: Eveleigh Nash 1908 CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. INTRODUCTION 1 II. A ROYAL HUNTING-GROUND 19 III. VAGARIES OF MONARCHS 47 IV. UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH 79 V. FASHION AND FRIVOLITY 94 VI. MASKS AND PATCHES 119 VII. IN GEORGIAN DAYS 141 VIII. EARLY CHRONICLES OF TYBURN 172 IX. BENEATH THE TRIPLE TREE 200 X. NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRAGMENTS 236 XI. DUELS IN THE PARK 265 XII. THE PEOPLE’S PARK 288 XIII. NATURE IN THE PARK 311 XIV. THE EVOLUTION OF THE CARRIAGE 325 APPENDIX LIST OF TREES, SHRUBS, AND PLANTS IN HYDE PARK 367 INDEX 377 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE FOUR-IN-HAND CLUB IN HYDE PARK _Frontispiece_ EXECUTION OF EARL FERRARS _Facing p._ 1 MAP OF WESTMINSTER, ILLUSTRATING CHARTER OF KING EDGAR, GRANTED TO DUNSTAN „ 20 BATHING WELL IN HYDE PARK „ 32 HENRY VIII. „ 42 THE CHEESECAKE HOUSE, TO WHICH THE DUKE OF HAMILTON WAS CARRIED MORTALLY WOUNDED „ 66 QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA’S PENANCE AT TYBURN „ 70 PROSTITUTE DRUMMED OUT OF HYDE PARK „ 111 TYBURN TICKET, PRESERVED IN GUILDHALL „ 128 DRINKING WELL IN HYDE PARK „ 136 ENTRANCE TO HYDE PARK ON A SUNDAY „ 142 MAP, 1725 „ 144