BUCKINGHAM PALACE, LONDON 



eighteenth century. " The avenues to this house 

 are along St. James's Park, through rows of goodly 

 elms on one hand, and gay flourishing limes on 

 the other ; that for coaches, this for walking, 

 with the Mall lying betwixt them." 



The Mall, at that time a vista half a mile in 

 length, was rormed into a hollow smooth walk, 

 skirted round with a wooden border, and having 

 an iron hoop at the further end, for the game 

 " Pall Mall." In a drawing of the time of 

 Charles II we observe a high pole with a hoop 

 suspended from an arm at its top, and through 

 this the ball was driven. Pepys records in 1663, 

 May 1 5th " I walked in the Park, discoursing 

 with the Keeper of the Pall Mall, who was 

 sweeping of it, who told me that the earth was 

 mixed that 'do floor the Mall, and that over all 

 there is cockle shellft'powdered to keep it fast, 

 which, however, in dry weather, turns to dust, 

 and deads the ball." 



Between Buckingham House and the house 

 in James's Street stood Tart Hall. How it 

 obtained its odd name it is difficult to tell, unless 

 it had anything to do with the tarts sold at the 

 Mulberry Garden close by. 



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