OF Inigo Jones's business pursuits at this period he himself gives the following account, in a letter to Lord Arundel (the only letter of his writing which seems to have been preserved):

"To the Right Hoble the Earle of Arundell and Surre, of his Ma3 Most hoble Privi Councell.

"Right Hoble,

"In my jorney to London, I went to Ha. Courte, whear I hearde that the Spanish imbassador came to Kingson, and sent his stewarde to Ha. Courte, who looked on the loginges intended for the imbassador, wch weare in M'. Hugines his roomes, but the steward utterly dislyked thos roomes, sainge that the imbassador wold not lye but in the house; besides, ther was no furnitur in thos roomes, or bedding, or otherwyse, nether for the imbassador or his followers: so the stewarde retorning to his lorde, he resolved only to hunt in the parke, and so retorne. But the keeper answered, he might not suffer that, he having receved no order for it; so the imbassador went bake discontented, having had sum smart sporte in the warrine. But since, my lo. of Nottingha hearing of this, sent to the imbassador, to excuse the matter, wch the imbassador tooke verry well, and promised to co and lie at Ha. Courte before his matics retorne; but in my opinion, the fault was chiefly in the imbassador, in not sending a day or two before, to see how he was provided for, and give notice what wold please him. "Wee have satt on the comsion for buildinges, on Monday last, to put in mynd thos who are bound by recognizance, or otherwyse, to conforme.

"The plan of all the incroachments about Paules is fully finished. I hearr that the masons do begin to make up that part of the east end wch they have demolished, not well,-but with uneven courses of stone. I am now going to the m'. of the wards, to tell him of itt.

"Mr. William was verry merry at his departure, and the busshope and he are the 'greatest' friends that may be.

"After my departure for London, many of the masons went awaye wthout leave, but since, some of the ar retorned; and, for the rest, yf your loPS do shewe sum exemplary punishment, causing the to be sent up as a malyfactors, it will detter the rest frō ever doing the lyke.

"The Banqueting-house goith on now well, though the going of the masons awaye have byne a great henderance to it.

"Thus, with my humble dutye, I rest

"Your Honours ever to be commanded,
"INIGO JONES.

"Ye 17 of August, 1620."

The "Commission for buildings," to which he refers, was a commission of inquiry into the number and nature of the new buildings erected in London since the accession of James I. Inigo Jones is mentioned as a member of this commission, and also of a commission formed in 1620 for conducting the repairs at old St. Paul's.

It was at Wilton, in 1620, during one of the royal Progresses, that he was sent for by the Earl of Pembroke, and "received his Majesty's commands to produce, out of his own practice in architecture, and experience in antiquities, whatever he could possibly discover concerning Stonehenge." The result of his inquiries appeared in a folio volume, published three years after his death, from "some few undigested notes," which he had left behind him, and which Webb had "moulded " together, for the purpose of publication. Jones had declared that Stonehenge was a Temple of the Tuscan order, raised by the Romans, and consecrated to the god Cælus-the origin of all things. In this he was attacked by Dr. Charlton, and vindicated by Webb; but Jones and Webb have found no followers, and the wild theory of the great architect is only another illustration of the ignorance of the learned. But Inigo Jones was a courtier; and his rough notes, after all, contain perhaps less of his own views upon the subject, than of ingenious illustrations of the hypothesis of the learned sovereign by whose command he had entered on the inquiry. Doubtless he knew better.

His next work was the chapel at Lincoln's Inn, commenced in the year 1618, and consecrated on Ascension Day, 1623; Dr. Donne preaching the consecration sermon. This is a piece of well-proportioned bastard Gothic, standing on an open crypt, or cloister, in which the students of the Inn were accustomed to meet and confer, and receive their clients. Sir Christopher Wren's cloisters, in the Temple, were re-erected, after the Great Fire of 1666, for the very same purpose. The Doric pilasters, in the Lincoln's Inn crypt, are curious illusstrations of his love of Romanizing everything. But it is good Gothic, for the time; and far truer to the details of style, than anything Wren chose to pass for Gothic on the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, or on the parish authorities of the City of London. Two of his best performances belong to this period of his life-the chapel of the Infanta, at Somerset House, in the Strand, levelled when the Government offices were erected on the site of the Protector's palace; and the beautiful water-gate to the town house of

Villiers Duke of Buckingham, on the Thames, at the bottom of Buckingham Street. The front of the chapel faced the Thames, and presented an harmonious elevation of a rustic arcade with five arches, and five well-proportioned windows between Corinthian pilasters, duplicated at either end. The water-gate (a master-piece of architectural harmony) may be looked upon as only a portion of a great building. Jones was not permitted to do much more, on this occasion, than indicate how successful he would have been, had his whole idea been carried into execution. King James' necessities limited Whitehall Palace to a portion only (the Banqueting House): the assassin's knife restricted York House to an instalment only (a water-gate): and the Civil War, under Charles I., stopped the restoration of St. Paul's at the magnificent west portico.

The three last Masques which King James lived to see represented, were the joint inventions of Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson. These were called, Time Vindicated to Himself and to his Honours, acted at Court on Twelfth Night, 1622–3; Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion (meaning Prince Charles), represented on Twelfth Night, 1623-4; and Pan's Anniversary, or the Shepherd's Holiday, performed in the early part of 1625. The scene, at the representation of Time Vindicated, "was three times changed during the time of the Masque, wherein the first that was discovered was a prospective of Whitehall, with the Banqueting House; the second was the Masquers in a Cloud; and the third a Forest." Of the scenery or success of the other Masques we have no account. That the "inventors" were not now at variance may be fairly supposed from the circumstance, that in two of Ben Jonson's Masques, subsequently presented before King Charles I. and his Queen, Inigo Jones was the associate of the poet. Chloridia, the last represented, was also the last in which Jonson and Jones were joint inventors.

The cause of the quarrel of Jonson and Jones is related by the Mr. Pory above mentioned, in a letter to Sir Thomas Puckering (characters of that date):

"The last Sunday, at night, the King's Masque was acted in the Banqueting House. . . . . The inventor or poet of this Masque was Mr. Aurelian Townshend, sometime steward to the Lord Treasurer Salisbury; Ben Jonson being for this time discarded, by reason of the predominant power of his antagonist, Inigo Jones, who, this time twelvemonth, was angry with him for putting his own name before his in the title-page; which Ben Jonson has made the subject of a bitter satire or two against Inigo.

"Jan. 12, 1631-2."

The Masque which gave the offence to Jones was Chloridia, already mentioned; "the inventors, Ben Jonson, Inigo Jones." This was the last of Jonson's Court entertainments; and the new poets introduced by Jones' influence were Townshend, Carew, Shirley, Hey