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