There had been time to move the most valuable effects which were moveable.

Unfortunately some of Holbein's finest pictures were painted on the walls, and are consequently known to us only by copies and engravings.

The books of the Treasury and of the Privy Council were rescued, and are still preserved.

The Ministers whose offices had been burned down were provided with new offices in the neighbourhood.

Henry the Eighth had built, close to St.James's Park, two appendages to the Palace of Whitehall, a cockpit and a tennis court.
The Treasury now occupies the site of the cockpit, the Privy Council Office the site of the tennis court.
Notwithstanding the many associations which make the name of Whitehall still interesting to an Englishman, the old building was little regretted.