OTELANDS, or OATLANDS, in England, in the county of Surrey, near Weybridge, was formerly a royal palace, where in Henry duke of Gloucester, third son to King Charles I. was born; and had a deer-park, which in the late civil wars was by the parliamentarians laid open, and the house demolished. In 1673 there was a brick-wall remaining, which encompassed ten acres; but there were then small traces of the chief pile, besides the gardener's lodge, wherein was the silk-worm room raised by King James I.'s queen. It is now a most magnificent building, and commands a most extensive prospect, which words cannot describe. In the park there was a paddock, where Queen Elizabeth used to shoot with a cross-bow. It is now the property of his royal highness the Duke of York, who purchased it for 43,000 l. of the duke of Newcastle, 1789.
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