CHAPTER XI.

Henry the Eighth -- His Person and Character -- Modern Qualifications of it considered -- Passages respecting him from Lingard, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and others -- His additions to Whitehall -- A Retrospect at Elizabeth -- Court of James resumed -- Its gross Habits -- Letter of Sir John Harrington respecting them -- James's Drunkenness -- Testimonies of Welldon, Sully, and Roger Coke -- Curious Omission in the Invective of Churchill the Poet -- Welldon's Portrait of James -- Buckingham, the Favourite -- Frightful Story of Somerset -- Masques -- Banqueting House -- Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson -- Court of Charles the First -- Cromwell -- Charles the Second -- James the Second 395