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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 
pleasured' 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 s - Cawarden, Knt. M r - of 
the said Office of Revels; and Lawrence Bradshaw, 
Surveior of the King's works, exhibited for the same 
w 1, 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, -|-d. p. hour; plasterers, 1 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 
