were painted. A small collection of his plans for shifting scenery in Masques is preserved among the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum. I cannot conclude this account of the Life of Inigo Jones without pointing out a singular and important error which Walpole commits, in his account of Jones: an error perpetuated by Allan Cunningham, and by other authors who have written the life of the great architect. Walpole ascribes to Philip Herbert, fifth Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, some rambling, incoherent, manuscript notes, written about Jones in the first edition of the "Stonehenge Restored," formerly in the Harleian Library. That these notes, however, could not have been written by Philip, the eccentric Earl, may be determined by a couple of dates. The Earl, who is said to have written them, died in 1650, and the book in which they are written was published in 1655.2 Victoria Road, Kensington, 28 September, 1849. 1 Lansdowne MSS., No. 1171. PETER CUNNINGHAM. 2 The notes in question were written, I suspect, by Sir Balthazar Gerbier. I may be excused, perhaps, for mentioning in a note (and my readers perhaps will thank me for the information), that by far the best account of Inigo's New Whitehall and of his magnificent West Portico of St. Paul's will be found in the fourth volume of Allan Cunningham's Lives of British Artists. APPENDIX ΤΟ THE LIFE OF INIGO JONES. A. [From the Book of Orders and Decrees of the Court of Requests, preserved in the Chapter House at Westminster.] Jones Decimo octavo die Novembris, Ao. R. Rne Elizabethe, &c. Baker xxxij°. [1589]. Uppon the opening and debating of the matter in varyance depending in the Quenes Matyes honorable Court of Requests, betweene Enego Jones, of the Cittie of London, Clothworker, complt, and Richard Baker, of the same cittie, Baker, deft, concerning in effect the stay of the proceeding of the said deft in an action of debte by him heretofore commenced at the common lawe against the complt, uppon an obligation wherein the same plt standeth bound unto the deft in the some of fowerscore poundes, with condition for the sure payment of lx'i at a day certen limited by the said condition, some part of which said debte of lx'i the said compt by his bill alledgeth to be heretofore by him satisfyed and payed unto the said deft. And that for the residue of the said debte beinge xlviijli, yt was compounded and agreed betweene the said plt and deft that he, the same deft, would accept and receave the same at the handes of the plt, after the rate of x3 euery moneth, untill the said debte of lxli were fully satisfyed and payed, as by the said complts bill more at large is sett furthe and alledged—for the full and finall ending of which said cause yt is this day by the Quenes Ma1y said counsaill of this said Court, by and with the full consent and agreement of both of the said parties and of their counsaill learned-ordered and decreed that the said complt shall forthwith confesse the said action so being commenced against him at the common lawe uppon the sayde obligation as is before declared; and that immediately upon the confession thereof an indenture of defeasance or covenants shalbe made betweene the said parties, by and with the consent of the said counsaill learned of both the said parties, whereby it shalbe covenanted and agreed betwene them, that if he, the said compt, or his executors or assignes, or any of them, shall hearafter continue the true payment of the said somme of tenne shillinges unto the said deft, his executors or assignes, monethly, every moneth, xs, one consequently ensuinge another, untill the said remaynder of the said debte of lx11, being fiftie five poundes, be fully satisfied and payed, the first payment thereof to commence the last day of the moneth of December next, that then neither he, the said deft, his executors or assignes, nor any of them, shall heareafter at any time take any advantage or sue for any execution against the said plt, his executors, or assignes, uppon the said action so being by him confessed, as is aforesaid: And if the sayde complt shall heareafter at any time make any defaulte of the said monethly payment of the said somme of x, yet notwithstanding it is by the said counsaill, by and with the full consent of the said partie deft ordered that neither he, the same deft, his executors or assignes, nor any of them, shall heareafter at any time sue any execution uppon the said confession of the said action untill such time as he, the said deft, his executors or assignes, shall haue made her Maties said Counsaill of this said Court, which then shalbe for the time being, privie and acquainted of the said breache or default of payment of the said somme of x3 monethlie, and that thereuppon the said deft shall for non payment thereof obteine license of her Maties said Counsaill of this said Court, to take execution against the said compt, uppon the said confession, for so much as to them shall then appeare to remaine unsatisfied of the said debte of lx1 before mentioned, and not above. B. [Addit. MS., British Museum, No. 5,755 Original.] JAMES R. Wee will and comaund you, imediatlie upon the sight hereof, to deliuer, or cause to be deliuered, unto o' welbeloued servaunt, Inigo Jones, whome wee have appointed to be S'veyor of o' Works, in the roome and place of Simon Basill, deceased, these p'cells hereafter following for his Lyverie, That is to saie, five yards of broad clothe for a gowne, at twentie six shillings and eightpence the yard, one furr of Budge for the same gowne, price four pounds; four yards and a half of baies, to lyne the same gowne, at fiue shillings the yard: for furring the same gowne ten shillings; and for making the same gowne ten shillings. And further or pleasure and comandement is, that yearlie, from henceforth, at the feaste of All Saints, you deliuer or cause to be deliuered unto the said Inigo Jones, the like p'cells, for his Livery, wth the furring and making of the same, as aforesaid, during his naturall lief. And these or Lres, signed wth our owne hand, shalbe yo' sufficient warrant, dormant, and discharge, in that behalf. Given under o2 signet, at oa Pallace of Westm", the sixteenth day of March, [1615-16] in the thirteenth yeare of or raigne of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, and of Scotland the nine and fortieth. To o' right trustie and welbeloued James Lord Hay, JAMES HAY. C. [Audit Office Enrolments, vol. ii., p. 404.] Charles, by the Grace of God, &c.—to the Threar and underthrear of or Excheq* now being, and wch hereafter from the tyme shalbe, and to all other our officers and ministers to whome it may appertaine-Greeting. Whereas the Surveyors of the Workes unto our predecessors haue formly had a dwelling house in o' pallace of Westminster belonging unto them, as incident to that place, untill the same was to their preiudice alienated from them: And forasmuch as we are given to understand that in the tyme of or late deare father, King James, of happye memory, deceased, one Symon Basill, Esqe, being then Surveyor of the Workes, had a dwelling house in the office of o' workes, called Scotland yeard, wch house, together wth some storehouses there, being pulled downe by the sayd Symon Basill, hee procured a Lease of that part of the said yard, and built severall houses thereupon for his owne private benefitt, soe as o' Surveyor hath paid a ffine, and is answerable for a yearely rent to the value of forty sixe poundes p. ann. for one of the houses. Wee doo therefore make known to you, o' said Threar and Underthrear, that of o' speciale grace and ffavor unto o' trustie and welbeloved Servant, Inigo Jones, Esq', now Surveyor of or Workes, as well in consideracion of his good and faithfull service done both to our said late deare ffather and to us, as for diverse other good consideracions us hereunto moving, wee are pleased to give and graunte unto him the some of forty sixe pounds of currant money of England p' ann., for the rent of his said dwelling house, and doe by these presents will and command you, aswell the officers of o' Workes, to enter the same monethly, wth other allowaunces and enterteynemte, as alsoe the paymaster of o' said workes now being, and that hereafter for the tyme shalbe, out of o" Treasure from tyme to tyme remayning in his handes and custodie, to pay unto the said Inigo Jones the said allowaunce of fortie sixe poundes p' ann., for the rent of his sayd house, in such manner as other allowaunces and enterteyts of that office are usually paid, the first payemt to begin from the ffeast of the Annunciacon of the blessed Vergine Mary last past before the date hereof, and to continue during his naturall life. And these o' lres shalbe sufficient warrt and discharge, aswell to the said Payemaster of o' workes, for the due payet of the sayd some of fortie sixe poundes pr ann., as to the Auditors of o' Imprests and all other o' officers whom it may concern, for giving allowaunce thereof from tyme to tyme upon his Accomptes. Given under or signet, at o' pallace of Westminster, the third day of Aprill, [1629] in the ffifth yeare of o' Raigne. CHARLES R. D. [Audit Office Enrolments, vol. vi., p. 129.] Trusty and welbeloved, Wee greet you well. Whereas wee haue thought fit to employ you for the erecting and building of Our palace at Greenwich, Wee doe hereby require and authorize you to execute, act, and proceed there, according to your best skill and judgment in Architecture, as our Surveyor Assistant unto S' John Denham, Knt of the Bath, Surveyor General of Our Works, with the same power of executing, acting, proceeding therein, and graunting of Warrants for |