HISTORY OF AKCinTECTURE. Boox I.

the monarchy, liovvever, the art began to revive

;
but it was much tinctured witli the
contemporary French style, which Lord Burlington, on its reappearance many years after-
wards, li.id tiie merit of reforming, and of bringing back the public taste to the ))urity
uhicli Jones had introduced : but tliis we shall iiave to notice hereafter.
465. John Welih was nephew as well as scholar of Inigo Jones, wliose onlv d.uighter
he married. He built a large seat for the Bromley family at Horseheath, in Cambridgeshire
;
and added a portico to the Vine, in Hampshire, for Challouer Chute, the S])eaker to
Richard Cromwell's parliament. Ambresbury, in Wiltshire
{fig-
'ilO.
),
was only executed
Fig. 210.
AUSBESBUIiY. (Before its alterations in 1853.)
by him from the designs of his master, as also the east side of the court of Greenwich
Hospital. Captain William Winde, a native of Bergen-op-Zoom, and pupil to Sir Balthazai
Gerbier, was, soon after the Restoration, in considerable employ as an architect. He bui 1
Cliefden House, Bucks, which was destroyed by fire in 1795
;
the ])uke of Newcastle's, ii
Lincoln's Inn Fields; Combe Abbey, Warwickshire, for Lord Craven; and for the same
peer he finished Hempsted Marshall, which had been begun by his master. But the chie
and best work of Winde was Buckingham House, in St. James's Park, on whose site non
stands a palace, larger, indeed, but unworthy to be its successor. It is known from prints
and not a few of our readers will probably recollect the building itself It was erected foi
John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham
;
and on its frieze was the inscription
"
sic sn i
i.yi':TANTUR LARES." The arrears in the payments for this house, according to an anecdott
in Walpole, were so distressing, that when it was nearly finished,
"
Winde had enticed lii?
Grace to mount upon the leads to enjoy the grand prospect. When there, he coolly locked
the trap-door, and threw the key to the ground, addressing his astonished patron,
'
I am
a ruined man, and unless I have your word of honour that the debts shall be paid, I will
instantly throw myself over.'
'
And what is to become of me,' said the duke?
'
You sliall
come along with me.' The promise was given, and the trap-door opened (upon a sign
made) ijy a workman in the secret, and who was a party to the plot." We do not voucli
for the truth of the tale.
466. An architect of the name of Marsh is said, by Vertue, to have designed the additional
buildings at Bolsover, as also to have done some considerable works at Nottingham Castle
;
and Salmon, in his account of Essex, mentions a Doctor Rlorecroft, wiio died in 1677, as
the architect of the manor-house of Fitzwalters. Of the works of the French taste about
the middle of the period under discussion, a better notion cannot be obtained than from
Montague House, late the British Museum
(//^
211.), the work of a Frenchman here
whose example had followers
;
indeed. Wren himself, in some of his works, has caught the
vices of the French school of the day, thongii he was a follower of tlie Venetian and lloman
schools. The fire which destroyed London in 1666, a iaw years after the death of Jones,
brought Into notice the talents of Sir Christopher Wren, whose career was opened undf.r