Singleton, Esther, d 1930, [from old catalog] ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & co. · leaf 258
royalty. The site of Whitehall was originally occupied by a man-sion built by Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent and ChiefJustice of England in the reign of Henry the Third, oneof the ancestors of the present Marquess of Clanricarde.De Burgh bequeathed it to the brotherhood of the BlackFriars, near… … WHITEHALL PALACE 191 York Place ; and under that name, two centuries and a halfafterwards, it became celebrated for the pomp and splendourof the full-blown priest, Wolsey, the magnificentbutchers son. Wolsey, on highly probable evidence, isthought to have so improved and enlarged the mansion ofhis…
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