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removed from there to St. James’s Park, “ Colonel Pride 
to see tolthe business.” 
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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 
