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Duke Street
City, Aldgate. (EC3) Originally Duke's Place; much inhabited by Jews, whom Oliver Cromwell allowed to settle in this locality in 1650. "Stands on the site of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, or Christ-Church, founded in 1108 by Matilda, wife of Henry I. This is said to have been the richest priory in England, and possibly for that reason was selected to be the first which was dissolved. Henry VIII granted it to Sir Thomas Audley, afterwards Lord Chancellor of England. By the marriage of his [Audley's] daughter and heiress, Margaret, with Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, it was conveyed into the Howard family and received the name of Duke's Place. In 1562 he [the Duke of Norfolk] rode through the city with his duchess, to his residence here, attended by a hundred horse in his livery, with his gentlemen before him in coats guarded with velvet, preceded (officially, as Earl Marshall) by the four heralds, Clarenceux, Somerset, Red Cross, and Blue Mantle. So respectable was the appearance of our ancient nobility." (Pennant's Account of London, p. 364)
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