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WILL of Henry WHITE, priest of Oxford University, died 1538

PCC will ref PROB 11/27 image number 317/227 register Dyngeley

Page prepared by Peter Tipton 10 Oct 2006

 

I have downloaded this will from TNA website, read it, but have not yet transcribed it. For the time-being I have provided the abstract prepared by Henry Curtis FRCS for his book dated 1936 on the White Family. I have of course checked that the original will contains bequests to TWO sons named JOHN. I have also provide Curtis' footnotes in full which run from 70 in his book.

 

ABSTRACTS OF WILLS

 

HENRY WHITE, Priest, of New College, Oxford, and Sutton... (and) Finchhamstead, Berks.; eldest son of Robert White, No. I., of Farnham, Surrey, and 'Kateryn' Wellys, or Wells, his wife; see pp. 3, 4.

 

Will da. 1 June, and pr. 3 Sept, 1538; P.C.C. F.20, Dyngeley.

 

HENRY WHITE, priest, New College, Oxford, Sutton, ... (probably Long Sutton, near Odiham, and 6 m. from Winchfield, Hants.); Fynchamstede, Berks.; hole of mynde and memory, summewhat diseased in body. To be bur. in the Church or Cloyster of St. Mary College of Wynton in Oxforth, if I should chance to dye in Oxforth or nygh thereto.

 

Bequests: To Cathedral} Church of Lincolne, Wynton and Saru. (Sarum) and to the pa. church of St. Andrewe in ffarnham, Saint mighell(69) and Alhalowes in Oxforth, and the church where my body shall rest yf it be noon (? not as) here expressed. To the Abbey of Haills (70)

 

To the Crosse Freres (71) of Muttenden in Kent ;

 

To Syon and Charterhouse called Shene, every oon of those places iii.s iiijd., willing all of them to be certefied that I am brother to their Religion and desire their prayers.

 

To St. Mary of Wynchester in Oxforth, And to St. Mary College in Wynchester beside Wynchester, eche of them xxd. To Exeeter College, xs

 

Mentions that his Father-in-lawe, John Morys (72) owith me for my Rent of Aldershott above ffourty mrks., which he bequeathed to the three daus. of his (late) brother Robert White. And if the said 40 mrks. may be recovered it was to rest in my brother John is handes the yonger, "in trust". Other bequests were also made to these three daus. of Robert.

 

Bequests to

Broder (John White the elder) Scholemaster of Wynchester College, who is to have peacible possession of Testator‘s lands in ffynchamstede, Cove and Wynchefelde.

 

Brother John White (elsewhere, John the yonger), Grocer of London, who is to have peasible possession of testator‘s Londes in Aldershott perhaps those for which John Morys owed testator 40 marks of rent.

 

Brother Leonarde -- His bequest to be held in trust for his use by testator's other four brothers before named, which seems to have thus included as the fourth, his: Brother-in-law, Thomas White; see below. Brother(-in-law) Saunders.

Maister Doctour London.

Poure Kynnesfolk in ffarnham, Yateley, Alfforde, or otherware

Servant, Thomas Williams.

All the stuffe I have at Sutton to be divided among the poor parishenors there.

A note adds: Of such things as I have at Sutton the ffarmer hath a bill.

I owe to Exeter College for my Chamber one quarter Rent.

 

Where Edmonde Yeatman of Storington, Maister Littlecot, Maister Darell, Margaret Ball of Oxforth, owith me certain money, and certaine other poure people hathe borrowed by penny meale or twoo peny meale all those detts and every one of them I forgive and not other.

 

Executors: Maister Thomas White, (73) Maister Doctour London (74) Maister Doctour

Holyman (75) and my brother John (White) the elder, before named.

 

(Signed): HENRICUS WHITE.

 

Witnesses: Maister White (76) Vicar of Bampton. Maister Cunner, (77) and Maister Bury (78) of Exeter College in Oxford, Maisters of Arte.

 

Besides lands at Finchampstead, Berks., Cove and Winchfield, Hants., as mentioned on p. 24, the testator devised to his Broder, Scholemaster of Wynchester College, John White, the elder, future Bp. of Lincoln and then of Winchester, of his collection of Early Fathers: Lyer, on the bybill; Ludolphe, on Be vita christi; and upon The Psalter, of fine velame, corded with changeable sarcenet; Origen‘s works, and some other that liketh him of Divinitie ; And a golde Rynge with a redd stone which I had of him.

 

He devised also To Maister Doctour London: A chalice with paten. Tertulyan's works; Ireneus' works; and Gregorye Nazienzen.

 

Of these writers mentioned: Ludolphus de Saxonia's fol edition of Be vita cristi appeared in 1474. St. Gregory of Nazianzen, Patriarch of Constantinople, compiled with St. Basil of Caesarea, selected passages from Origen, entitled The Philocalia of Origen, which was translated, in 1911, by the Rev. George Lewis.

 

The testator bequeathed to his servant, Thomas Williams: A materisse and bolster of flocks, a coverlett and a pair of Lockram shets, in which he is wonte to lye; a bason and ewer; My longe gowne which I am wonte to weare almost every day lyned with satynsipers and partly bocram and the whood; and 40s. in money.

 

The N.E.D. says: Locram, or lockram -- a linen fabric of various qualities for wearing apparel and household uses; the earliest reference provided being dated 1483-4. In 1520, Lynnen cloth of canvas and lokeram for shetes and smockes, and shirtes. In 1552, in "Surrey Church Goods," p. 16, ed. 1869, One old surplice of loqueram Obsol. except historically, an adaptation of French: Locrenan, from Locronan, lit. Cell of St. Roman, the name of a village in Brittany, where the fabric was formerly made.

 

"Satynsipers" Satin of Cypres. Cypress, probably from Old French, Gipri, Cypre, the island of Cyprus, from which, in and after the Crusading times, various fabrics were wrought; see Aldis Wright, note to Shakespeare‘s "Twelfth Night," III., i. 119.

 

Cypress, a valuable quality of satin, called more fully satin of Cypres, satin Cypres. 1533. In Weaver's "Wells Wilts", ed. 1890, 27, A Sondays gowne of blak lyned with sattyn of Sypers For other quotations, see the N.E.D.

 

CURTIS' FOOTNOTES

 

70 Hailes, or Hayles, a par. in Co. Gloucr., 2m. N.E. by E. of Winchcomb, where a Cistercian Abbey was founded in 1246 by Richard E. of Cornwall, afterwards King of the Romans, and Emperor of Germany. It flourished until the Dissolution, when it was given to Sir Thomas Seymour, and passed to the Marquis of Northampton, and the Tracys. Some interesting remains of the Abbey are still standing; Imperial Gazetteer, ed. 1876, by John Marius Wilson.

 

71 I.e. the Cross Friars of Mottenden ,in Headcorn par. Kent, 11 m. W. by N. of Ashford. A Trinitarian Priory was founded here in 1224, by Sir Robert de Rokesby; notable for its being the first of its kind in England, and for a miracle play acted in its church on Trinity Sunday. It was given at the Dissolution to Thomas, Lord Cromwell, and after his attainder, in 1540, to Sir Robert Aucher. No remains of it now exist; Imperial Gazetteer, ed. 1876.

 

78 Evidently, therefore, the testator, who d.s.p., pre-deceased by his wife, had married one daughter, and his next younger brother, the late Robert White(d.1533/4), had married another daughter, Elizabeth.

 

73 Sir Thomas White, of South Warnborough, Master of Requests to Q. Mary. His wife was Testator's sister, Agues White.

 

74 John London, Fell. of New Coil., 1503-18; from Hambledon, Bucks.; B.C.L., 1512; D.C.L., 1518/19; Warden of his College, 1526-42. Canon of York, 1519; of Lincoln, 1522; of Windsor, 1540; etc., etc.; d. 1543, in the Fleet.

 

75 John Holyman, Fellow of Exeter College, 1510-26; of Codington, Bucks.; B.A., 1514; M.A., 1518; B.D., 1526; D.D., 1530; "A zealous preacher against the Lutherans" a monk of St. Mary‘s Abbey, Berks., ejected 1535; R. of Colerne, Wilts., 1526; V. of Winge, Bucks, 1546; R. of Hanborough, Oxon., Bp. of Bristol, 1534; d. 20 Dec., 1558; bur. at Hanborough.

 

76 John White, (Whygth), B.A., 18 July, 1519; Fell. of Exeter Coll., Oxford, 1520-3, where adm. 3 Ap., 1520, M.A., 6 July, 1523; in Orders; Principal of Hart Hall, 1527-1531.

 

77 John Cunnar, Fellow of Exeter Coil., 1523-49; B.A., 1510; M.A., 1513/14; B.D., 1524; V. of Long Wittenham, Berks., and of St. Peter‘s-in-the-East, Oxford. Invent. at Oxford da. 3 Dec., 1569.

 

78 John Bevy, or Bury, adm. 7 July, 1526, to Exeter College; B.A., 30 June, 1523; MA., 9 Nov., 1526. B.D. ,1543; Rector, 1534-36; still sojourning in the College, 1539-43; V. of Exmouth, 1536; d. 1558. A John Bury was Rector of S. Mary College, 20 July, 1548. See Foster‘s Al. Oxon.,‘ and C. Boase‘s "Rectors and Fellows of Exeter Coll., Oxford."

 

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