. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. he priory church to any per-son who would take it down and carry it from the ground, but noman would undertake the offer; whereupon sir Thomas wasobliged to be at more charg-es to take it down than could be madeof the stones, timber, lead, iron, &c.; for the workmen, withgreat labour, beginning- at the top, loosed stone from stone, andthrew them down, whereby the greater part of them were broken,and few remained whole, and those were sold very cheap; for allthe building-s, then made about the city, were of bric
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. he priory church to any per-son who would take it down and carry it from the ground, but noman would undertake the offer; whereupon sir Thomas wasobliged to be at more charg-es to take it down than could be madeof the stones, timber, lead, iron, &c.; for the workmen, withgreat labour, beginning- at the top, loosed stone from stone, andthrew them down, whereby the greater part of them were broken,and few remained whole, and those were sold very cheap; for allthe building-s, then made about the city, were of brick and tim-ber. Thomas, lord Audley, built a noble mansion of this priory,and dwelt in it during- his life, and died there in the year 1544;whose only daughter being- married to Thomas, duke of Norfolk,this estate descended to his grace, and was then called the DukesPlace. In this mansion, which w7as called Cree-church, chapters ofthe heralds were held in 1561 ; and Holbein, the celebratedpainter, is said to have died here in 1551, though some authorssay he died at Whitehall,. Gale of the Priory of the Holy gate of this priory, here delineated, stood in the parish of HISTORY OF LONDON. 83 St. James, Dukes-place, at the north end of Cree-church-lane; theapartments, above the gate, which were of modern erection, wereformerly occupied as the ward school-rooms. These remains weredestroyed in October, 1816. On the dissolution of the priory, the chapel before mentionedbecame the only place (after the conventual church was pulleddown) for the inhabitants within that district to repair to for divineservice. This, however, creating some dislike among the inhabit-ants of Dukes-place, they were desirous of raising a proper parishchurch for themselves, on the ground within their own precinct ;to effect which, they applied to the archbishop of Canterbury forhis assistance ; who, having obtained the kings warrant, under thegreat seal, for proceeding in their pious intention, preva
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