Vandyke was caressed and enriched at court.

Inigo Jones was master of the king's buildings; though afterwards persecuted by the parliament, on account of the part which he had in rebuilding St.
Paul's, and for obeying some orders of council, by which he was directed to pull down houses, in order to make room for that edifice.

Laws, who had not been surpassed by any musician before him, was much beloved by the king, who called him the father of music.

Charles was a good judge of writing, and was thought by some more anxious with regard to purity of style than became a monarch.[****] * Anderson, vol.ii.p.

111.
** Anderson, vol.ii.p.