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in sufficient nombre. . . ," Some 15,000, leaving the 

 City after passing by St. Paul's Churchyard, went 

 " directly to Westminster and so through the Sanctuary 

 and round about the Park of St. James, and so up into 

 the fields and came home through Holborne." 



It was not until James I.'s time that the Park began 

 to be esteemed as a resort for those attached to the Court. 

 Prince Henry, the elder brother of Charles I., made the 

 tilting-ring on the site of the present Horse Guards' 

 Parade, and brought the enclosure more into vogue for 

 games. James I. made use of the Park for his own 

 hobbies, one of which was the encouragement of growing 

 vines and mulberries in England. He planted consider- 

 able vineyards, and in 1609 he sent a circular letter to 

 the Lords-Lieutenant of each county, ordering them to 

 announce that the following spring a thousand mulberry 

 trees would be sent to each county town, and people 

 were required to buy them at the rate of three-farthings 

 a plant. To further prosecute his plan, the King set 

 an example by planting a mulberry orchard at the end 

 of St. James's Park. The place afterwards became a 

 fashionable tea garden, and Buckingham Palace is partly 

 built on the site. The King kept also quite a large 

 menagerie of beasts and birds presented to him by 

 various crowned heads, or sent to him by friends and 

 favourites. There are records of elephants, camels, 

 antelopes, beavers, crocodiles, wild boars, and sables, 

 besides many kinds of birds. The keepers of the 

 animals received large salaries, and the cost of the care 

 of these beasts would frighten the Zoological Society of 

 to-day. No expense was spared to give the best and 

 most suitable surroundings to the animals. For instance, 

 as much as £2^6 was expended in 161 8 by Robert 



