. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. d love ofCourt gossip, the Stuart kings appear to have livedhere very much in public; so much so, indeed,that, if we may trust Macaulay, the newswritersof the reign of Charles II. would occasionally ob-tain admission into the gallery at Whitehall Palace,in order to tell their country friends how the kingand duke looked, and what games the courtiersj)layed at. The sources from which Macaulay drew his in- 36c OLD AND NEW LONDON. tWhitehall. formation about the state of the Court are toonumerous to recapitulate. Among
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. d love ofCourt gossip, the Stuart kings appear to have livedhere very much in public; so much so, indeed,that, if we may trust Macaulay, the newswritersof the reign of Charles II. would occasionally ob-tain admission into the gallery at Whitehall Palace,in order to tell their country friends how the kingand duke looked, and what games the courtiersj)layed at. The sources from which Macaulay drew his in- 36c OLD AND NEW LONDON. tWhitehall. formation about the state of the Court are toonumerous to recapitulate. Among them are theDespatches of Barillon, Van Citters, Ronquillo,and Adda ; the Travels of the Grand Duke Cosmo ;the Works of Roger North, the Diaries of Pepysand Evelyn, and the Memoirs of Grammont. the labour of cutting a candle from a pound, burntit off, and threw the rest carelessly by before theflame was out. It burnt violently till four nextmorning, and destroyed the Duchess of Ports-mouths lodgings, with all the stone gallery andbuildings behind and down to the Thames. Six. THE KING STREET GATEWAY, WHITEHALL. The royal family of Stuart would seem to havebeen as unfortunate in their domestic servants asin their fate; for Northouck tells us that twicewithin a few years, in the reign of William andMary, the Palace of AVhitehall suffered seriousdamage by fire; firstly in April, 1691, when a largepart of it was destroyed through the negligence ofa maid-servant, who, about eight oclock at night,says the very circumstantial Northouck, to save years later, we learn from the same authority, by the carelessness of a laundress, all the body ofthe Palace, witli the new gallery, council-chamber,and several adjoining apartments, shared the samefate. It was with the greatest difficulty that theBanqueting Hall was saved. The king, addsNorthouck, sent message after message fromKensington, for its preservation; though it ishard to see how even royal messengers could > THE OLD PALAC
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