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While the country was under threat of invasion from France, the first Lord’s Ground in Dorset Square proved a popular place on which to stage military parades. There are two images by Henry Matthews in which the 2nd and 3rd Regiments of the Royal East India Volunteers were presented with their colours in 1797. Two years later it was the turn of the Bank of England Volunteers; an oil painting of this occasion was commissioned from Thomas Stothard and hangs in the Bank of England museum.