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windows, total cost, £i6g, ys. 8d." Only about half of 

 this total was due to the work in Marylebone, as a similar 

 pavilion, and three other " standings," were made in 

 Hyde Park at the same time. 



Hall, the chronicler of Henry VIII, 's time, inveighs 

 against the fashion of making these sumptuous banquet- 

 ing houses. They were not only a regal amusement, 

 but the citizens built in their suburban gardens " many 

 faire Summer houses . . . some of them like Mid- 

 summer Pageants, with Towers, Turrets, and Chimney 

 tops, not so much for use or profit, as for shew and 

 pleasure, and bewraying the vanity of men's mindes, 

 much unlike to the disposition of the ancient Citizens, 

 who delighted in building of Hospitals and Almes- 

 houses for the poore." There stood in Marylebone 

 parish a banqueting house where the Lord Mayor and 

 aldermen dined when they inspected the conduits of the 

 Tybourne. On one occasion they hunted a hare before 

 dinner, and after, " they went to hunt the fox. There 

 was a great cry for a mile, and at length the hounds 

 killed him at the end of St. Giles." During this run 

 the hunt must have skirted the royal preserves of 

 Marylebone. In Elizabeth's time a hunting-party on 

 3rd February 1600 is recorded, in which the "Am- 

 bassador from the Emperor of Russia and the other 

 Muscovites rode through the City of London to 

 Marylebone Park, and there hunted at their pleasure, 

 and shortly after returned homeward." 



Marylebone was a retired spot for duels, and many 

 took place there down to the time when duelling ceased. 

 The quarrel which led to one in Elizabeth's reign is 

 most typical of that age. Sir Charles Blount, after- 

 wards Earl of Devonshire, handsome and dashing, 



