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accounts that references to Marylebone Park are found, 

 and they are merely a bare statement of facts. But 

 that hunting-parties, with all the show and splendour 

 attending them, took place frequently, is certain. Among 

 the Loseley MSS. occur, in 1554, instructions to Sir 

 Thomas Cawarden, as " Master of the Tents and 

 Toiles," to superintend the making of " certaine banquit- 

 ing houses of Bowes [ = boughs] and other devices of 

 pleasure." One of these was made in " Marybone 

 Parke," and a minute description is given. It was 

 40 feet long, and " wrought by tymber, brick, and 

 lyme, with their raunges and other necessary utensyles 

 therto insident, and to the like accustomed." Also 

 three " standinges " were made at the same time, " all 

 of tymber garnished with boughes and flowers, every 

 [one] of them conteynenge in length 10 foote and in 

 bredth 8 foote, which houses and standings were so 

 edified, repaired, garnished, decked, and fynyshed against 

 the Marshall Saint Andrewes comynge thethere by speciale 

 and straight comandement, as well of the late King 

 as his counsell to Sir Tho^' Cawarden, Knt. M"^' of 

 the said Office of Revels ; and Lawrence Bradshaw, 

 Surveior of the King's works, exhibited for the same 

 w'' earnest charge done, wrought and attended between 

 the 27th of June and the 2 of August in the said year" 

 [4th of Edward VI.]. Employed on the above works 

 for 22 days at all hours, a space to eat and drink 

 excepted, "Carpenters, bricklayers, id. the hour; 

 labourers, id. p. hour; plasterers, i id. a day; painters, 

 yd. and 6d. a day." "Charges for cutting boughs in 

 the wood at Hyde Park for trimming the banquetting 

 house, gathering rushes, flags, and ivy ; painters, taylors 

 for sewing roof, etc., basket makers working upon 



