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The Palace of Whitehall – also spelled White Hall – at Westminster was the main residence of the English monarchs from 1530 until 1698, when most of its structures, with the notable exception of Inigo Jones 's Banqueting House of 1622, were destroyed by fire. Henry VIII moved the royal residence to White Hall after the old royal apartments ...
Banqueting House. The Banqueting House, on Whitehall in the City of Westminster, central London, is the grandest and best-known survivor of the architectural genre of banqueting houses, constructed for elaborate entertaining. It is the only large surviving component of the Palace of Whitehall, the residence of English monarchs from 1530 to 1698.
The treaty was signed on 28 August , at Whitehall Palace, by the Constable of Castile who was lodged at Somerset House. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] The treaty restored the status quo ante bellum . [ 24 ] [ 19 ] It amounted to an acknowledgement by Spain that its hopes of restoring Roman Catholicism in England were at an end and it had to recognise the ...
James stayed for three days at the Charterhouse, then moved first to the Tower of London, and on 13 May to Greenwich Palace. On 23 May the court moved again, to Whitehall Palace. [10] His wife, Anne of Denmark followed in June, after suffering a miscarriage at Stirling Castle. In London, there were rumours that Prince Charles had died.
January 1 – The King's Men perform Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream at the English Court. c. April – The King's Men perform Ben Jonson 's tragedy Sejanus His Fall (written 1603 and previously presented at Court) at the Globe Theatre, where it is not popular. The title role is probably played by Richard Burbage, and Shakespeare ...
The Coronation Triumph. The Coronation Triumph is a Jacobean era literary work, usually classed as an "entertainment", written by Ben Jonson for the coronation of King James I and performed on 15 March 1604. The event was postponed due to plague in London . Jonson's work was half of a total performance, the other half written by Thomas Dekker.
He is thought to have been involved in the construction of Lyveden New Bield from 1604, and made a drawing for the lantern roof. [4] James VI and I began building a new Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace in 1607, probably designed by Robert Stickells. [5] [6] A model for the roof was made by a Scottish designer, James Acheson. [7]
Andrew Kerwyn (died 1615) was an English administrator, stonemason, and paymaster of the royal works for James VI and I from 20 August 1604. His allowance was two shillings daily. Masons in London. He may have been a son of William Kerwyne or Kerwin, a stonemason commemorated by a tomb in St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate.