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reversion of this office while in the household of the Prince of Wales , he returned to take his place at the English court . His income as surveyor was derived from various sources , and amounted in the aggregate to between £ 700 and £ 800 , besides other
emoluments , and a yearly allowance for a court livery from the master of the wardrobe , equal to about £ 50 of our present money . His noble patrons , Arundel and Pembroke , continued unabated in their friendship , and lost no opportunity of commending to his majesty's notice the merits of their protege .
Jones now found full employment for his time , and scope for the exercise of his talents . His duties consisted , to a great extent , in devising and superintending the alterations and repairs which were constantly in progress at the numerous palaces and manor-houses
belonging to the Crown ; and as this entailed the expense of frequent travelling , he received from the treasurer of the chamber a special allowance , as well as occasional presents . As we have already remarked , he did not after the death of Prince Henry give much attention to theatrical entertainments at court . He was , however
after his return from Italy occasionally employed , jointly with Ben Jonson , in devising some of those amusements , which , however , had become of less frequent occurrence , as w ell owing to the enormous expense attending their production , as to the necessities and altered tastes of the sovereign . Besides , during Inigo ' s residence abroad , another architect had been introduced in these performances—one
Constantino , an Italian—and the friendship that existed between the original and principal contrivers , Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones , had unfortunately given place to sentiments much less pleasant . There is no record of the original cause of this unhappy difference between two of the most talented men of their day ; but it is certain
it occurred prior to 1619 ; for in Jonson ' s conversations of that date with Drummond of Hawthornden , the epithets applied by the poet to Jones are the very reverse of flattering . A short reconciliation between them was succeeded by another and a fiercer quarrel than before . The invectives , however , which Jonson hurled at Jones
with no sparing hand , do not appear to have done the latter any material injury , but rather the reverse . During the poet ' s absence in Scotland , in 1619 , the old banqueting-house at Whitehall was burnt to the ground , and Jones received commands to erect a new building on the site it had occupied , and of similar style and dimensions . It was just in such an emergency that his powers of conception , decision , and execution , became prominent : and the successful rapidity he exhibited on this occasion was then unprecedented in the
annals of art , and is perhaps even now unsurpassed ; the ground having been cleared , the design produced , and tho first stone of the new building laid on 1 st June , within five months from the date of the fire , which took place on the 12 th January preceding . The cost of the erection is declared at £ 14 , 910 . 4 ? . Id . A good description of it is quoted by Mr . Cunningham from the account preserved in the Audit-office . The master mason was Nicholas Stone , tho
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reversion of this office while in the household of the Prince of Wales , he returned to take his place at the English court . His income as surveyor was derived from various sources , and amounted in the aggregate to between £ 700 and £ 800 , besides other
emoluments , and a yearly allowance for a court livery from the master of the wardrobe , equal to about £ 50 of our present money . His noble patrons , Arundel and Pembroke , continued unabated in their friendship , and lost no opportunity of commending to his majesty's notice the merits of their protege .
Jones now found full employment for his time , and scope for the exercise of his talents . His duties consisted , to a great extent , in devising and superintending the alterations and repairs which were constantly in progress at the numerous palaces and manor-houses
belonging to the Crown ; and as this entailed the expense of frequent travelling , he received from the treasurer of the chamber a special allowance , as well as occasional presents . As we have already remarked , he did not after the death of Prince Henry give much attention to theatrical entertainments at court . He was , however
after his return from Italy occasionally employed , jointly with Ben Jonson , in devising some of those amusements , which , however , had become of less frequent occurrence , as w ell owing to the enormous expense attending their production , as to the necessities and altered tastes of the sovereign . Besides , during Inigo ' s residence abroad , another architect had been introduced in these performances—one
Constantino , an Italian—and the friendship that existed between the original and principal contrivers , Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones , had unfortunately given place to sentiments much less pleasant . There is no record of the original cause of this unhappy difference between two of the most talented men of their day ; but it is certain
it occurred prior to 1619 ; for in Jonson ' s conversations of that date with Drummond of Hawthornden , the epithets applied by the poet to Jones are the very reverse of flattering . A short reconciliation between them was succeeded by another and a fiercer quarrel than before . The invectives , however , which Jonson hurled at Jones
with no sparing hand , do not appear to have done the latter any material injury , but rather the reverse . During the poet ' s absence in Scotland , in 1619 , the old banqueting-house at Whitehall was burnt to the ground , and Jones received commands to erect a new building on the site it had occupied , and of similar style and dimensions . It was just in such an emergency that his powers of conception , decision , and execution , became prominent : and the successful rapidity he exhibited on this occasion was then unprecedented in the
annals of art , and is perhaps even now unsurpassed ; the ground having been cleared , the design produced , and tho first stone of the new building laid on 1 st June , within five months from the date of the fire , which took place on the 12 th January preceding . The cost of the erection is declared at £ 14 , 910 . 4 ? . Id . A good description of it is quoted by Mr . Cunningham from the account preserved in the Audit-office . The master mason was Nicholas Stone , tho