"The loss," the King writes, "is less to me than it would be to another person, for I cannot live there.

Yet it is serious." So late as 1758 Johnson described a furious Jacobite as firmly convinced that William burned down Whitehall in order to steal the furniture.

Idler, No.10.

Pope, in Windsor Forest, a poem which has a stronger tinge of Toryism than anything else that he ever wrote, predicts the speedy restoration of the fallen palace.
"I see, I see, where two fair cities bend their ample bow, a new Whitehall ascend." See Ralph's bitter remarks on the fate of Whitehall.] [Footnote 10: As to the Czar: London Gazette; Van Citters, 1698; Jan.
11/21.

14/24 Mar 11/21, Mar 29/April 8; L'Hermitage 11/21, 18/28, Jan 25/Feb 4, Feb 1/11 8/18, 11/21 Feb 22/Mar 4; Feb 25/Mar 7, Mar 1/4, Mar 29/April 8/ April 22/ May 2 See also Evelyn's Diary; Burnet Postman, Jan.13.15., Feb.