NOTE, On the Scene of the Execution of Charles I. This seems not to be an unfit place to notice some facts in reference to the scene of the king's execution, which have been drawn from old engravings and maps, still preserved in the Chapel Royal at Whitehall. The king was executed in front of the middle window of the present Chapel Royal, on the side facing the present street, and not, as is often supposed, on the other side. At that time, instead of the streets and gardens which now lie around, an old brick palace existed, not unlike parts of the present one of St. James's. Its outlying quadrangles and buildings stretched as far north as the present Scotland-yard, while one large quadrangle, containing the royal garden, lay immediately to the back of the Chapel Royal; on the side of which quadrangle, next the river, stood the royal apartments. The street which now runs in front of the chapel was about half its present width; a guard-house stood in front of the present Horse-guards, while immediately in front of the chapel was a tilting-ground; and a few yards to the south of it, i.e. in the direction of Westminster Abbey, a brick archway spanned the street, similar to that which now forms the principal entrance to the palace of St. James. The banqueting-hall which forms the present Chapel Royal, is the only portion ever completed of a grand design of James I. for rebuilding the palace. The older portion of the palace was destroyed by fire in the time of William III., and the banqueting-hall was converted into a chapel by George I. 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