The exact date of this _Speech_ is not given, but it was printed[665] in 1637 along with "The Prologue to the Famous Tragedy of _The Rich Jew of Malta_, as it Was Played Before the King and Queen in His Majesty's Theatre at Whitehall"; and this Prologue Heywood had already published with the play itself in 1633. He dedicated the play to Mr. Thomas Hammon, saying, "I had no better a New-Year's gift to present you with." Apparently, then, the play had been acted at Court shortly before New Year's, 1633; and this sets a forward date to Heywood's _Speech_. Other evidence combines with this to show that "His Majesty's Theatre at Whitehall" was "new" at the Christmas season of 1632-33. [Footnote 665: See _The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood_ (1874), VI, 339.] In erecting this, the first "theatre royal," King Charles would naturally call for the aid of the great Court architect Inigo Jones,[666] and by good luck we have preserved for us Jones's original sketches for the little playhouse (see page 396). These were discovered a few years ago by Mr. Hamilton Bell in the Library of Worcester College (where many valuable relics of the great architect are stored), and printed in _The Architectural Record_ of New York, March, 1913. Mr. Bell accompanied the plans with a valuable discussion, but he was unable to discover their purpose. He writes: We have still no clue as to what purpose this curiously anomalous and most interesting structure was to serve--whether the plan was ever carried out, or whether it remained part of a lordly pleasure-house which its prolific designer planned for the delectation of his own soul. [Footnote 666: Whether he merely made over the old Cockpit which Henry VIII had constructed "out of certain old tenements," or erected an entirely new building, I have not been able to ascertain. Heywood's _Speech_ indicates a "new" and "lasting" structure.] That the plan actually was carried out, at least in part, is shown by a sketch of the Whitehall buildings made by John Fisher at some date before 1670, and engraved by Vertue in 1747, (see page 398).[667] Here, in the northeast corner of the palace, we find a little theatre, labeled "The Cockpit." Its identity with the building sketched by Inigo Jones is obvious at a glance; even the exterior measurements, which are ascertainable from the scales of feet given on the two plans, are the same. [Footnote 667: Vertue conservatively dates the survey "about 1680"; but the names of the occupants of the various parts of the palace show that it was drawn before 1670, and nearer 1660 than 1680.] [Illustration: INIGO JONES'S PLANS FOR THE COCKPIT-IN-COURT Now preserved in the Worcester College Library at Oxford; discovered by Mr. Hamilton Bell, and reproduced in _The Architectural Record_, of New York, 1913.] [Illustration: FISHER'S SURVEY OF WHITEHALL SHOWING THE COCKPIT-IN-COURT