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his death in 1665, he had acquired the forfeited estates of 

 Sir Philip Constable in Sutton and Stoneferry and seems to 

 have added thereto. He lived at the White House on the 

 site I have described. His property was chiefly settled by 

 Deed and by Will on his widow for her life, some of it with- 

 out any devise of the remainder, of which his sister Elizabeth, 

 the wife of John Truslove of Wawne and Stoneferry, got a 

 considerable share as "shift-lands," besides what she had 

 under his will. From her descendants Mr. Thomas Broadley 

 bought a portion called Whitehouse farm, the rest of her 

 property being acquired by Mrs. Ann Watson who lived at 

 White House, and, dying in 1721, founded in that house her 

 College for widows and maiden daughters of clergymen. 



Mrs. Ann Watson's will furnishes incidentally many 

 interesting particulars as to her house and lands, and other 

 possessions. She left amongst her friends her plain gold 

 ring, with a " posie " or motto in it, her gold ring without 

 a posie, her clothes of woollen, linen, and silk, and a pair of 

 silver candlesticks and snuffers. Her heirlooms and pictures 

 in her house were to be continued there for ever for orna- 

 ments and benefits to the house. Her house, called White 

 House, the north end of cow-house, and the close it stood in, 

 were for ever to be appropriated to a college or dwelling for 

 clergymen's widows and clergymen's daughters, old maids, 

 and for a school for teaching children. 



Ten girls, who could read, were to be taught by the 

 school dame to knit, spin, and sew. The girls were to be 

 the children of poor inhabitants in need of such assistance, 

 and were to help the ladies in their domestic affairs, and each 

 was to receive twopence per week. The children were to go 

 to Sutton Church on St. James' Day, and every Sunday when 

 there should be service and sermon, and to be catechised 

 when there should be catechising. The minister of Sutton 

 was to have five pounds for the service and sermon on 

 St. James' Day. The school dame was to read prayers on 

 Wednesdays and Fridays. Each of the inmates was to 

 receive five pounds per annum, the school dame being paid 

 five pounds more. 



When a new College or Hospital was provided at Stoneferry, 

 the White House was used as a farm. In the time of my 

 grandfather, Samuel Hudson,* who succeeded his father there, 

 it was a spacious Manor house, having a carved oak staircase 



* This name, which appears in lists of occupiers from the sixteenth 

 century, is now extinct. 



