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Both St James's Park and Green Park were officially private Crown land, where access could be arbitrarily withdrawn. In reality, even though their gates were locked nightly at ten, by the seventeenth century there were over 6,500 keys to the gates of St James's alone...

'The Victorian City' by Judith Flanders, Ch. 10. Macmillan, 2012