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Hyde Park in the early Commonwealth--Its sale--Toll on horses and carriages--A hurling match--Cromwell's accident--Attempts to shoot him in the Park--Notices against trespassers--The Park at the Restoration 14
The camp in Hyde Park during the Plague of 1665--Boscobel Oaks in the Park--When first opened to the public--What it was then like--The Cheesecake House--Its homely refections--Orange girls 24
Foot and horse racing in the Park--Prize fighting--Duelling--The duel between Lord Mohun and the Duke of Hamilton 32
Duelling in Hyde Park 39
Skating on the ponds and Serpentine--The Ring--Many notices thereof--Fireworks in the Park--Bad roads therein, and accidents caused thereby--Regulations in the time of Queen Anne--Making the drive--Riding in the Park 49
Rotten Row, the King's Old Road--The New King's Road made and lighted--The Allied Sovereigns in the Park--The Park after the Peninsular War--The Duke of Wellington in the Park--The Queen and Royal Family in the Park 61
The springs in Hyde Park--Used as water supply for Westminster--Horses in the Park--The Westbourne--Making the Serpentine--The "Naumachia" thereon--Satires about it--The Jubilee Fair 65
The Great Exhibition of 1851 94
Royal Humane Society's Receiving House--Boats and bathing--The Dell--Chelsea Water Works reservoir--Walnut-trees--Flower-walk--Military executions--The Magazine, Whip, Four-in-hand and Coaching Clubs--Their dress--Satire on Coaching--The Park as a military centre--The first review--Fort at Hyde Park Corner--Guard-house--Camp in Hyde Park--Insubordinate troops 120
Grand Reviews in 1660-1661-1668, 1682-1695-1699--Camps in 1715-1716-1722--Poem on the latter--Reviews in 1755-1759-1760 132
Reviews in 1763-1764--Shooting-butts in 1778--Camp in 1780--Severe sentence of a Court-martial--Volunteer Reviews, 1799-1800--The rain at the latter 142
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