London . s,that a message Avas sent to the marshal, requesting him to conduct the processionround the Tilt Yard opposite, that they might have a second view. This donethey entered the palace, where the masque, to which all this was but as a pre-liminary, began ; and, says Whitelock, was incomparably performed in thedancing, speeches, music, and scenes ; the dances, figures, properties; the voices,instruments, songs, airs, and composures; the words and actions were all of themexact, and none failed in their parts. Henrietta Maria was so charmed witheverything, that she determined to have the wh
London . s,that a message Avas sent to the marshal, requesting him to conduct the processionround the Tilt Yard opposite, that they might have a second view. This donethey entered the palace, where the masque, to which all this was but as a pre-liminary, began ; and, says Whitelock, was incomparably performed in thedancing, speeches, music, and scenes ; the dances, figures, properties; the voices,instruments, songs, airs, and composures; the words and actions were all of themexact, and none failed in their parts. Henrietta Maria was so charmed witheverything, that she determined to have the whole repeated shortly after. Thenight, or rather, we presume, morning, ended with dances, in which the queenand her ladies of honour were led out by the principal masquers. The expensesof this spectacle were not less than 21,000/.; some of the musicians had 100/.a-piece, so that the whole charge of the music came to about 1000/. Continuing our view of the palatial remains as they were seventy years ago:—. [Remains of the Palace, 1772.] o/ 76 LONDON. bejond the hall, and touching it at the north-west corner, were the cloisters, en-closing a cjuadrangle nearly square, of great size, and having in the midst asmall garden, made perhaps after the grant of the principal garden to the cloisters were long, antique-looking galleries, with the doors and win-dows of various apartments appearing at the back: in the latter traces ofpainted glass, the remnants of former splendour, were still visible. Lastly, atthe north-west corner of the cloisters, in a field planted with trees and surroundedwith a wall, stood the chapel, now the only remain of all that we have described,and of the still more numerous buildings that at one time constituted the palaceof the Bishops of Ely. From this description we perceive the changes thatseventy years have wrought; and we may here observe, as a passing illustrationof the general history of the neighbourhood, that in the maps of London, of theda
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