86 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
windows, total cost, £169, 7s. 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, 
