impudent
comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the
wall, and the King standing on the green walk under it."

During Wyatt's insurrection in 1554, the mob passed along this road, and
the Earl of Pembroke planted artillery on the high ground of Hay Hill
and Piccadilly, when a piece of the Queen's ordnance, we are told, "slew
three of Wyatt's followers, in a rank, and after carrying off their
heads passed through this wall into the park" (Jesse). In 1682 Thynne
was murdered at the instigation of Count Konigsmarck in what is now Pall
Mall East, because he had married the heiress of the Percys, whom the
Count wished to marry himself. The principal was acquitted, but his
three accomplices or tools, who had actually committed the murder, were
executed, according to the poetic justice of the time, at the scene of
their offence, in 1682.

The Star and Garter Hotel, nearly opposite the War Office, was a
fashionable tavern in the time of Queen Anne. Here took place the famous
duel between the fifth Lord Byron and Mr. Chaworth in 1765. They fought
in the house by the light of only a single candle. Byron killed his
opponent, and was found guilty of manslaughter by his peers. However, he
claimed benefit of a statute of Edward VI., and was discharged. The
original dispute was merely as to which gentleman had the larger amount
of game on his estate.

Among other famous taverns in this street are mentioned the King's Arms,
under the Opera Colonnade in Pall Mall East. Also the Rumpsteak Club,
which consisted of five Dukes, one Marquis, fifteen Earls, three
Viscounts, and three Barons, all in opposition to Sir Robert Walpole.
The King's Head, the George, the Smyrna Coffee-house, Giles'
Coffee-house, Hercules Pillars, and the Tree, were among the ancient
places of resort in this street--a foreshadowing of the palatial
mansions of Clubland.

The north side of the street is the poorer of the two. Beginning at the
western end on the south side, we have the New Oxford and Cambridge
Club, the Guards, and the Oxford and Cambridge University Clubs. The
first of these has a very massive entrance; the house has only a north
aspect, the windows at the back being glazed with ground-glass so as not
to overlook Marlborough House. A little further on is an old red-brick
house with a portico on which is a female figure in bas-relief with
palette and brushes. This is in great contrast to its neighbours; it is
what remain