1 16 Painters in the Reign of Henry VI IL 



precln6ls of the palace, that it was in foms 

 night lodgings there, then called the paper- 

 buildings, or in Scotland-yard where the 

 king's artificers lived ; but he was rather 

 of opinion that Holbein breathed his laft in • 

 the duke of Norfolk's houfe in the priory 

 of Chrift-church * near Aldgate, then called 

 Duke's-place, having been removed from 

 Whitehall, to make room for the train of ' 

 Philip, to whom queen Mary was going to 

 be married, f The fpot of his interment 

 was as uncertain as that of his death. Tho- 

 rnas earl of Arunde?, the celebrated col- 

 ledor in the reign of Charles I. was de- 

 iirous of ere6ling a monument for him, but 

 dropped the defign from ignorance of the 

 place. Strype in his edition of Stowe's 

 Survey fays that he was buried in St. Ca- 

 therine-Cree church, which ftands in the 

 cimetery of that diffolved priory, and con- 

 fequently clofe to his patron's houfe. 



* There was a priory given at the diffblution to Sir 

 Thomns Dudley, from whofe family it came by mar- 

 jiage to the dake of Norfolk, but this was not 'till 

 four years after the death of Holbein, confequently ^ 

 Vertue's conjefture is not well grounded. 



f Holbein was not likely to be in favour in that 

 feign, being fuppofed a proteftanU 



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