Marriage Statistics of Knightsbridge Chapel 90 Ministers of Knightsbridge Chapel 63 Olden Time, The 23 Parochial Divisions 49 Patients discharged from Lazar House 56 Perambulation Festivities 50 Pimlico, Origin of Name of 245 Population of Knightsbridge 268 Reminiscence of the Compiler (Note) 104 Ditto of Shelley’s first Wife 112 Reputation of the Chapel for Suspicious Marriages 68 Restoration of Knightsbridge Chapel 58 and 61 Reviews in Hyde Park 119 Riots at Knightsbridge 40 Salubrity of Knightsbridge 269 State Visits to French Embassy 102 Tradition of Cæsar Crossing the Thames 250 Trees from the Boscobel Oak 130 Water Supply 30 Wyatt’s Insurrection Quelled 33 William III., Intended Assassination of 36 ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Knightsbridge, the Site of Albert Gate _Frontispiece_ The Westbourne, from the Park 22 Colours of the Knightsbridge Volunteers 39 Trinity Chapel 62 St. Paul’s Church 94 The Westbourne, looking north from Knightsbridge 101 The Cake House 122 Fort at Hyde Park Corner 128 Oak planted by Charles II. 130 Hyde Park Corner, 1824 131 Queen’s Buildings 172 Half-Way House 179 Lanesborough House 181 The Lock Hospital 238 Lock Chapel 241 ERRATUM Page 235, line 19, for “Grosvenor Row” read “Grosvenor Place.” {0} CHAPTER I. “Instructed by the Antiquary Times, We are, we must, we cannot but be wise.” SHAKSPEARE.