Banqueting House, Whitehall Whitehall in which his banqueting house was to be incorporated as one wing enclosing a series of seven courtyards, visible on the monumental main façade as only a small flanking wing. These revealed the ideas behind Jones' concept of Palladianism. However, King Charles I, who commissioned the plans, never amassed the resources to execute them; his lack of funds and the tensions that eventually led to the Civil War intervened and the plans were permanently shelved. In January 1698, the Tudor Palace was razed by fire that raged for 17 hours. All that remained was the Banqueting House, Whitehall Gate,
Treaty of Whitehall The treaty was short lived, however, and was broken following the outbreak of King William's War in 1689, the first in the series of French and Indian Wars. Treaty of Whitehall The Treaty of Whitehall (or the Treaty of American Neutrality) was signed between Louis XIV of France and James II of England in November 1686 as an agreement that Continental conflict would not disrupt peace and neutrality in New France and New England. It declared that "though the two Countries might be at war in Europe their Colonies in America should continue in peace and Neutrality." The treaty specifically