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removed from there to St. James's Park, *' Colonel Pride 

 to see to the business." 



At the Restoration the former tenants were reinstated 

 until the debt was discharged, and John Carey was com- 

 pensated for his loss of the rangership ; but the Park 

 was never re-stocked with deer. It is supposed that the 

 Queens, Mary and Elizabeth, sometimes resided at the 

 Manor House belonging to the Manor, which stood at 

 the south side of what is now Marylebone Road, and 

 was built by Henry VIII. A drawing of the house in 

 1700 exists, and it is not the same as Oxford House, 

 with which it has sometimes been confused, belonging to 

 Lord Oxford, which contained the celebrated Harleian 

 collection of MSS. Henry VIII.'s Manor House was 

 pulled down in 1790. It is not until after that date that 

 anything further has to be recorded of the Park; until then 

 it remained let out as farms. In 1793 Mr. White, architect 

 to the Duke of Portland, the tenant of the Park from 

 the Crown, approached Mr. Fordyce, the Surveyor- 

 General, with his ideas and plans for the improvement 

 of the whole of the area. During the previous fifty 

 years the streets and squares between Oxford Street and 

 Marylebone had been growing up. Foley House, a large 

 building, stood on the site of the present Langham 

 Hotel ; and in the lease by which the land was held 

 from the Duke of Portland, it was covenanted that no 

 buildings should obstruct the view of Marylebone Park 

 from this house. When, in 1772, the Brothers Adam 

 designed Portland Place, they made it the entire width 

 of Foley House, so that the agreement was fulfilled to 

 the letter. In those days the street ended where No, 8 

 Portland Place now stands ; then came the railings which 

 enclosed Marylebone Fields, with its buttercup meadows 



