Hyde Park from Domesday-book to Date. Ashton John

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and he wrote thereon: “Liliputian Navy!!! The R – t’s Fleet, or John Bull at the Serpentine.” – “The P – e’s Jubilee.” “The R – l Showman.” “The R – l Fair, or Grande Galante Show.” And, on the sale of the Temple of Concord, which had been erected in the Green Park: “The Temple knock’d down: or R – l Auction. The last lay of the Jubilee.” They are mostly scurrilous and spiteful, but from the first of them I take the following: —

      “Now to Hyde Park the crowds repair,

      To mark the wonders of the fair;

      To view the long extended line,

      The glory of the Serpentine.

      “Now sounds the Cannon, near and far,

      The signal for the naval war,

      The cockle fleet their flounder sails

      Now spread to catch the whisp’ring gales.

      “Now meet the rival ships; now rave

      The echoing thunders o’er the wave;

      Within the banks the eels retire,

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      Ancestor of the family of Mandeville, Earls of Essex.

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      A hide was 100 or 120 acres – as much land as one plough could cultivate in a year.

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      A Carucate was as much arable land as could be cultivated by one plough in a year, with sufficient meadow and pasture for the team.

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      A plough is the same as a Carucate.

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      These were not slaves, but persons used and employed in the most servile work, and belonging, both they and their children, and their effects, to the lord of the soil, like the rest of the cattle or stock upon it.

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      A Virgate was from 8 to 16 acres of land.

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      Bordars were peasants holding a little house, bigger than a cottage, together with some land of husbandry.

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      An History of the Church of St. Peter, Westminster, by R. Widmore, 1751.

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      John of Gaunt, brother of Edward III., and titular King of Castile.

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      Strype’s edit, of Stow’s Survey, ed. 1720. Book VI. p. 80.

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      Lord Burghley, High Steward of Westminster.

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      Who had formerly been a kind of companion to his wife.

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      England under the reigns of Edward VI. and Mary, by P. E. Tytler. Lond. 1839, vol

1

Ancestor of the family of Mandeville, Earls of Essex.

2

A hide was 100 or 120 acres – as much land as one plough could cultivate in a year.

3

A Carucate was as much arable land as could be cultivated by one plough in a year, with sufficient meadow and pasture for the team.

4

A plough is the same as a Carucate.

5

These were not slaves, but persons used and employed in the most servile work, and belonging, both they and their children, and their effects, to the lord of the soil, like the rest of the cattle or stock upon it.

6

A Virgate was from 8 to 16 acres of land.

7

Bordars were peasants holding a little house, bigger than a cottage, together with some land of husbandry.

8

An History of the Church of St. Peter, Westminster, by R. Widmore, 1751.

9

John of Gaunt, brother of Edward III., and titular King of Castile.

10

Strype’s edit, of Stow’s Survey, ed. 1720. Book VI. p. 80.

11

Lord Burghley, High Steward of Westminster.

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Who had formerly been a kind of companion to his wife.

13

England under the reigns of Edward VI. and Mary, by P. E. Tytler. Lond. 1839, vol i. p. 288.

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Illustrations of British History, etc., by E. Lodge. Lond. 1791, vol. ii. p. 205.

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The Duke of Anjou and his Court.

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Keeper, whose duty was to shoot trespassing dogs, and foxes.

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His lodge.

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Correspondence of Lord Scudamore, Ambassador at Paris in 1635, etc., privately printed.

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Vol. ii. p. 508.

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Mercurius Politicus. January 29-February 5, 1657.

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Mercurius Politicus. January 15-22, 1657, and The Publick Intelligencer, January 19-26, 1657.

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Mercurius Politicus. February 12-19, 1657.

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“Amusements Serious and Comical, Calculated for the Meridian of London.” Lond. 1700, p. 55.

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“Environs of London.” D. Lysons, 2nd ed. vol. ii. part i. p. 117.

25

Amelia, by Hy. Fielding, ed. 1752. Book 5, ch. vi. p. 132.

26

Brit. Mus. 515. 1. 2/215

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