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month before liis death, the grief at which was deep. Three days 

 after it took place Uie following entry was written in Minute and 

 Account Book C. 9, f. 37 :— " 24 July, 1648. It is ordered by 

 i\Iaster Maior and the Company that Master Savage on the 

 compan^s desire to [do] give in their names to Master White's 

 executo' five pounds to give it to the poore in Master White's 

 name. And that Master Savage doe cause the porch to be hung 

 w*-*" black at the funerall and for one monetli after and yf it be 

 stolen the Company will satisfie him for it." In a less degree 

 another entry tells of good feeling towards the deceased. This is 

 in C. 12 under the above date. "It was agreed . . . that 

 the ffeoffees of Trinity Parsonage be desired to give power by their 

 warr* to authorize Xathaniel White his father's executor to receive 



all tithes .... until there shall be a minister 



brought into the place of Master White " Again, 



several years after, C. 12, Feb. 8, 1651 (2), a sum of £3 9s. Id. 

 " balance of his father's Ace* due from the Erewhouse" is ordered 

 to be paid to Capt. Nathaniel White, and out of respects to his 

 father and the family it is ordered that he shall have given him 

 out of the Erewhouse . . . the some of five pounds more as 

 a boone at his departure towards Garnesey." It may be here said, 

 by the way, that from one or two passages it seems that the Guernsey 

 garrison was partly manned by Dorchester folks and refreshed with 

 Dorchester beer from the borough brewhouse. One more entry re- 

 lating to the Whites may be quoted. "Jan. 26, 1648 (9), Master 

 Samuel White to be paid £4 14s. Od. layed out for the ministers 

 •w^^ have preached liere in Towne since his father's death. And 

 forty shillings more for the entertainment of several ministers. . 

 . . . . at several times. And that his brother Nathaniel shall 

 be desired by Master Gower (the new Eector) to pay him. . . ." 

 Such are the chief notices in C. 9 and 12 of the W'hite family. 

 Passing on to other ecclesiomunicipal matters we find the Mayor 

 and Company in great thoughts of heart about a fit successor to 

 Master White. It may be noted here that the living of Holy 

 Trinity, of old in the gift of the Crown, as St. Peter's still is, is in 



