Hyde Park, Its History and RomanceAlec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)
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Hyde Park, Its History and Romance
Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)
Hyde Park (London, England); London (England) -- Social life and customs
Hyde Park, Achilles statue in, 12, 13, 255;
banqueting houses in, 39, 45-46, 63;
beaux in, 146;
bell rung in, 128;
birds in, 3, 16, 23, 152, 318-323;
building sites in, 82, 91;
camps in, 74-75, 106-110, 144, 239;
chairs in, 10, 250;
coaching club in, 337;
coronation festivities, 250, 256-258;
cricket in, 7, 156;
deer in, 33, 50, 64, 81, 90;
demonstrations in, 293-294;
duels in, 265-287;
early history of, 19-33;
fairs in, 247, 258;
flower-girls in, 146;
flowers in, 14, 312-313, 316-317, 371;
footpads in, 122-124, 157, 160, 213;
fortifications in, 74-75;
Four-in-Hand Club, 7, 337, 353;
gardening in, 151, 312-313;
Great Exhibition of 1851, in, 261-263;
lighting of, 123-124;
lists of shrubs and trees, etc., 367-371;
lodges in, 66, 111, 153;
macarnis in, 170, 236;
masks in, 120, 126-127;
May-Day in, 80-87;
monastic lands, 24;
music in, 303;
open air services in, 301-303;
orange girls in, 120-121, 146;
orchards in, 2, 96, 105;
Pepys in, 100-116;
playground of Society, 66;
police in, 293-295;
purchasers of, 82;
poachers in, 52, 64, 317;
races in the Ring, 38, 66, 73;
Ranger’s Lodge in, 14, 66;
Restoration festivities in, 94;
riders in Rotten Row, 290-292;
a Royal forest, 23;
a Royal park, 33-36;
sold by auction, 81;
suffragists in, 171, 295-297;
Sunday in, 12, 133, 138, 143, 164, 245, 247-248, 296, 298;
under the Puritans, 79-91;
veterans in, 310;
wall round, 6, 8, 49, 96, 137, 144, 256;
wooden paling round, 36, 137.
Hyde Park Corner, 13;
Allen’s stall at, 165, 304;
Burton’s Arch, 261;
Charles II. at, 119;
Royal escort at, 54;
traffic at, 159;
Wyatt’s troops near, 47-50.
Improvements in Hyde Park, 151-155, 261.
James I., duelling under, 268;
encourages silk industry, 96;
hunts in Hyde Park, 63;
law against building, 142;
restores cock-fighting, 63;
strict preserver of game, 62-65;
Spring Gardens so called by, 91.
James II., 111, 119-120, 129-130, 136.
Jennings, Sarah, 130.
John of Gaunt, 33.
John, King, 178.
Jonson, Ben, 9, 41, 268.
Kensingston Gardens, 2, 36, 151;
servants and dogs not allowed therein, 6, 139, 143;
habitués of, 16;
improvements in, 151-155;
in May, 245;
mysterious person in, 129;
“Physical Energy” in, 307;
Round Pond, 154;
tea kiosks in, 92.
Kensington Palace bought, 122;
death of Mary II., 129;
Queen Victoria born, 2.
Kildare, Earl of, 190-192.
Kingsborough, Lord, 283-285.
Kingston, Dukes of, 134, 158.
Kingstown, Earl of, 284-285.
Kit-cat Club, 135.
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