Date: 1861
* The magnificent masques which were represented at Whitehall under the auspices of Charles will be remem bered as long as Milton, Ben Jonson, Fletcher, and Inigo Jones shall continue to be classic names. "  The fullest account," writes the late Mr. Disraeli, " I have found of one of these entertainments — which at once shew the curiosity of the scenical machinery , and the fancy of the poet, the richness of the crimson habits of the gentlemen, and the white dresses, the white herons' plumes and jewelled head dresses and ropes of pearl of the ladies — was in a manu script letter of the time, with which I supplied the editor * " Embassy to England " in 1G26.  WHITEHALL IN CHARLES THE FIRST'S TIME.