performed in it by the Drury Lane company,[6] and one afterwards
before the


[1] An obsolete French term of salutation, abridged from _Bon prou
vous_, i.e. much good may it do you.

[2] Stow's Annals.

[3] Fuller's Church History.

[4] Rymer's Foedera.

[5] Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.

[6] Cibber tells us that the expenses of each play were £50. and
the players were allowed the same sum. The King likewise gave the
managers £200. more, for all the performances. For the last
play, the actors received £100. One of the plays acted here was
Shakspeare's Henry VIII--thus making the palace the scene of
Wolseys downfall, as it had been of his splendour.


Duke of Lorraine, afterwards Emperor of Germany. The theatrical
appurtenances were not, however, removed till the year 1798. Adjoining
the hall is the Board of Green Cloth Room, of nearly the same date,
and hung with fine tapestry.

The eastern quadrangle, or Fountain Court, erected by Sir Christopher
Wren for King William, in 1690, is 100 feet by 177 feet 3 inches. Here