In 1804 Albany House, in Piccadilly, long occupied by the Duke of York and Albany, was converted into sets of bachelor chambers, and the gardens behind were also built over with additional suites of rooms. Byron's were in the original house on the ground floor, No. 2. Moore, writing to Rogers, April 12, 1814 (
Memoirs, etc
., vol. viii. p. 176), says,
"Lord Byron, as you know, has removed into Albany, and lives in an apartment, I should think thirty by forty feet."
Hamlet
, act v. sc. 1, line 299.