Father Patricks, he said, had a lodging near the Pantry, which he shewed me.
"There be some of us priests who have an affinity, do you not think, Mr.
Mallock?
with pantries and butteries and such like--good sound men too, many of them.

I have not a word to say against Mr.Patricks." He shewed me too how the Palace was in four quarters, of which two were divided from two by Whitehall itself and the street between the gatehouses.

That half of it that was nearer to the Park held the tennis-court and the cock-pit and the lodgings of the Duke of Monmouth and others nearer Westminster, and the other half the Horse Guards and the barracks: and that nearer the river held, to the south the Stone Gallery, the Privy Garden, the Bowling Green and a great number of lodgings amongst which were those of the King and of his brother and Prince Rupert, and of the Queen too, as well as of their more immediate attendants--and this part contained what was left of the old York House; to the north was another court surrounded by lodgings, the Wood-Yard, the two courts called Scotland Yard, and the clock-house at the extremity, nearest Charing Cross.

In the very midst of the whole Palace, looking upon Whitehall itself, was the Banqueting House where His Majesty dined in state, and from a window of which King Charles the First, of blessed memory, went out to lose his head.

Indeed as we went by the end of the Banqueting House the trumpets blew for supper; and we saw a great number of cooks and scullions run past with dishes on their heads.
* * * * * As we went up Whitehall, Mr.Whitbread began to speak of more intimate things.
"You are a stranger in England, Mr.Mallock, I think." I told him I had not been in the country for seven years.
"You will find a great many changes," he said; "and I think we are on the eve of some more.