Bath Place was a prominent London residence that had belonged to the Bishops of Bath. It was in the parish of "St Clement without Temple Bar" near Temple BarEdward Murray Tomlinson, A History of the Minories (Smith, Elder and Co.: London, 1907), pages 80-84 and relatively close to the King's residence
On 27 June 1539, it was 'assured in Parliament to William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton, who was living there in April of that year. After that, it was known for a time as Hampton Place'. In return an Act of Parliament forced the Earl to give the Bishop the Minories as his palace.Parliament Roll, 31 Hen. VIII, R.O. no. 47 Bath Place was owned by the Earl until his death in 1543.p.114, Robert Hutchinson, Henry VIII: the Decline and Fall of a Tyrant
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