Vieux et nouveau Londres : un récit de son histoire, de son peuple et de ses lieux. Orks—le Manoir de Chalcot—Meurtre de Sir Edmund Bcrr>- Godfrey—Duel entre Ugo Foscolo et Graham—Primrose Hill acheté par la Couronne, et fait un Parkfor the People—le Tunnel à travers la colline— Feux D'Artifice Pour La Célébration De La Paix En 1856—The Shakespeare Oak—Lady Byronsresidence—Chalk Farm—Duels Y Combattit—The Wrestling Club Of Cumberland And Westmoreland—The Excentric Lord Coleraine—Theold Chalk Farm Tavern—The Railway Station—Pickfords Goods Depot—The Boys Home—The York And Albany Tavern—Gloucestergate—Albany

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Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . orks—The Manor of Chalcot—Murder of Sir Edmund Bcrr>- Godfrey—Duel between Ugo Foscolo and Graham—Primrose Hill purchased by the Crown, and made a Parkfor the People—The Tunnel through the Hill—Fireworks in Celebration of the Peace in 1856—The Shakespeare Oak—Lady ByronsResidence—Chalk Farm—Duels fought there—The Wrestling Club of Cumberland and Westmoreland—The Eccentric Lord Coleraine—TheOld Chalk Farm Tavern—The Railway Station—Pickfords Goods Depot—The Boys Home—The York and Albany Tavern—GloucesterGate—Albany Street—The Guards Barracks—Park Village East—Cumberland Market—Munster Square—Osnaburgh Street—Sir Golds-worthy Gurney—The Queens Head and Artichoke—Trinity Church. As the Green Park forms a sort of supplement andappendage to St. Jamess Park, so does PrimroseHill to the Regents Park: it has the character of is now occupied by the reservoir of the WestMiddlesex Waterworks. The name survives inBarrow Hill Place and Road.. MEDAL TO COMMEMORATE THE MURDER OF GODFREY. a park for the people, and its associations are thereverse of aristocratic. The hill lies on the northside of the park, and its name still bears testimonyto its rural and retired situation, when its sideswere covered with brushwood and an undergrowthof early spring flowers. Going back to the timeof the Roman settlers, we find that when theyplanted their colony on the banks of the Thamesand founded London, most part of the northerndistrict consisted of a large forest filled with wolvesand other Avild animals. Early in the thirteenthcentury the forest of Middlesex was disafforested, but although portions were cleared, St. JohnsWood, as we have already seen, remained suffi-ciently dense in Queen Elizabeths reign to affordshelter and concealment to Babington, the con-spirator, and his associates. At that time, however, the slopes of Primrose Hill were used as meadowland,

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