Original Builder -The Earls of Burlington - The Old Building the New House and Colonnade-Duke of Portland Henry Cavendish - The Royal Society- Royal Academy-Queensberry House-Uxbridge House CHAP. Great Windmill Street-Regent Street-Swallow Street -Sackville Street-Bond Street-Clifford Street- Conduit Street-Bruton Street-Grafton Street-Albe- marle Street-Dover Street-Berkeley Street-Stratton Street Bolton Street Clarges Street - Half Moon Hyde Park Corner-St. George's Hospital-Deer-Races -Sale of the Park-The Ring-Rotten Row-The Ser- pentine Encampments - Reviews - Duels - Trees- Kensington Gardens-The Palace. X. GREEN PARK AND ST. JAMES'S PARK Green Park-Constitution Hill-St. James's Park—Water -Rosamond's Pond-Duck Island-Game of Pall Mall - The Mall-Trees-Birdcage Walk-The Parade- Horse Guards-Spring Gardens. XI. ST. JAMES'S AND BUCKINGHAM PALACES... St. James's Hospital-King's Manor House-Palace- Chapel Royal-German Chapel-Royal Library-Stable- Yard-Buckingham Palace-Mulberry Gardens-Goring House-Arlington House-Buckingham House-Queen's St. James's Field - The Rookery-Old Clubs - Early Inhabitants-Marlborough House-Schomberg House- New Clubs-Carlton House-Warwick House.-North Side: Dodsley-Alderman Boydell-British Institution. First Called "The Piazza "-Early Inhabitants-Duke of Ormond-Norfolk House-State of the Square-St. James's Market-Charles Street-York Street-Jermyn PAGK Frontispiece. HYDE PARK CORNER IN 1800. A copy of Plate 95 in THOMAS MALTON'S Picturesque Tour through 1. PLAN OF PART OF THE PARISH OF ST. JAMES'S ABOUT 1720. A reduction of a portion of the plan of the parish in STRYPE'S edition 25. MELBOURNE OR YORK HOUSE, NOW "THE ALBANY." 33. HERTFORD HOUSE (FORMERLY BARRYMORE HOUSE) BEFORE 1851. From an etching by J. P. MALCOLM, dated 1807. 38. OLD APSLEY HOUSE FROM HYDE PARK. Reduced from an engraving by F. VIVARES, dated 1828. 46. THE FRONT OF BURLINGTON HOUSE IN 1868. From a photograph taken in 1868. 46. OLD BURLINGTON HOUSE ABOUT 1700. Copied from an engraving in Les Délices de la Grande Bretagne, LEYDEN, 1707, which is the same on smaller scale as the print in KIP's Théâtre de la Grande Bretagne. 52. THE COLONNADE OF BURLINGTON HOUSE (TAKEN DOWN IN 1868). From a photograph taken in 1868. 53 PICCADILLY WALL OF BURLINGTON HOUSE (TAKEN DOWN IN 1868). PAGE 82. 94. CLARENDON HOUSE, 1667-83. From J. T. SMITH'S copy (published in 1798) of a rare contemporary print. DEVONSHIRE HOUSE, 1808. From an etching by J. P. MALCOLM, published in 1808. 116. OLD HAYMARKET THEATRE, CLOSED IN 1820. Copied from an engraving in ROBErt Wilkinson's Londina Illustrata, which is dated 1815. 125. ENTRANCE TO THE OPERA HOUSE PREVIOUS TO THE YEAR 1820. Copied from an engraving in WILKINSON's Londina, which is dated 1816. 205. CHESTERFIELD HOUSE, BUILT IN 1748. 216. ST. GEORGE's Hospital, after R. WILSON, R.A., 1746. THE CHEESECAKE HOUSE, TAKEN DOWN ABOUT 1835. 233. From an engraving in the Gentleman's Magazine for May, 1801. 259. RANGER'S LODGE IN THE GREEN PARK. Copied from a portion of a curious contemporary view of the fireworks exhibited in the Green Park on occasion of the Peace of Aix-laChapelle, on November 7, 1748. 261. ST. JAMES'S PARK IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES II. Reduced from the plan of the Park in KIP's Théâtre de la Grande 265. ROSAMOND'S POND, AFTER HOGARTH. From an engraving published for S. IRELAND, in 1799. 284. ST. JAMES'S PALACE AND PARK. 287 Copied from an undated engraving, probably printed about 1700, or soon after. ST. JAMES'S PALACE. This view of the gate and street front of the palace is taken from LEIGH 306. BUCKINGHAM HOUSE IN 1748. Copied from a portion of a curious contemporary view of the fireworks exhibited in the Green Park on occasion of the Peace of Aix-laChapelle on November 7, 1748. 332. SCHOMBERG HOUSE. Showing the house as it appeared before the east wing was rebuilt by 342. THE SCREEN OF CARLTON HOUSE. From an engraving published by ACKERMANN in 1809. 355. ST. JAMES'S SQUARE ABOUT 1727. A reduced copy of an undated engraving by SUTTOn Nicholls. PREFACE. EVERY large city has a history which is not apparent to the men of business and of pleasure who frequent its streets, but which will reveal itself to the diligent seeker after unwritten traditions and documentary records. London, the largest and busiest of cities, has been for centuries the stage upon which the chief acts in the drama of England's history have been enacted, and if all the actors could be brought before us, a motley group of great and small would assuredly be presented to our sight; and even a record in detail of these actors and their homes and deeds must necessarily bear a miscellaneous character as well. Every old house has a tale to tell to those who will turn aside to listen, but the majority are too much occupied with the present to care about these stories of the past; and to those who are constantly treading on ground made sacred by the historical scenes which have been enacted there, the influence of the daily contact obscures all its interest. London has grown and is growing to so huge a size,' that a complete 1 On all sides the town is daily extending before our eyes. With Brompton marked in the South Kensington maps as the centre of London, |