102 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
the bredth the one way 60 foote and the other way 30 foote and 
over the same a type or turret garnished. One other house in 
Marybone Parke conteyninge in length 40 foote the same ad¬ 
joined framed, made and wrought of tymber, brick, and lyme, 
with their raunges and other necessary utensyles therto insi- 
dent, and to the like accustomed, And 6 standinges whereof 
were in either of the said parkes, 3 all of tymber garnished with 
boughes and flowers every (one) of them conteynenge in length 
10 foote and in bredth 8 foote * * * Employed on the above 
works for 22 days, at all hours a space to eat and drynke ex¬ 
cepted.” Carpenters and bricklayers id. the hour, labourers 
|d. the hour—plasterers nd. 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.” ... “ Taylors for sewing the roof, &c.: basket makers 
working upon windows.—Total cost, £169.7.8.” 
In Stow’s Annals another of these banqueting-houses is 
described. It was made in 1581, at Whitehall, “ for certaine 
Ambassadors out of France.” It was round, being 332 feet in 
circumference, and was built on the south-west of the palace 
near the river. Over the canvas roof, painted like clouds, 
“ this house was wrought most cunningly with ivy and holly, 
with pendants made of wicker rods garnished with bay, rue, 
and all manner of strange flowers garnished with spangles of 
gold . . . beautiful with teasons ( = festoons) made of ivy and 
holy, with all manner of strange fruits, as pomegranates, 
oranges, pompions, cucumbers, grapes, with such like spangled 
with gold, and most richly hanged.” 
Of course, such banqueting-houses were only made on State 
occasions, and could only be afforded by the wealthy. The 
mount in an ordinary garden was surmounted by an arbour of 
the plainest description. It may have been a great convenience 
as a point from which a good view could be secured, especially 
in a garden not sufficiently grand or large to have a raised 
terrace ; but in these more modest gardens, unless planted with 
flowering plants and creepers, a mount cannot have been a 
beautiful object. In a book on Boscobel published in 1660 there 
is a picture of such a mount, and it exists unaltered to the 
present day. Nothing could be plainer than this ; and it is 
