THE WHITES OF BASINGSTOKE 5 



in the large hall, now pulled down, which is said to 

 have witnessed the knighting of one of its owners 

 by Queen Elizabeth. 



The arms of this branch of the family, the grant 

 of which is duly recorded, are (with a slight differ- 

 ence, which evidently arose from a mistake on the 

 part of the Oxfordshire family) the same as those 

 which appear on the handsome monuments in 

 S. Mary's Church, Oxford, to Sir Sampson White 

 and his sons, and to his brother Henry in the 

 church of Coggs, near Witney ; viz. argent,'* a 

 chevron gules between three parrots or popinjays 

 vert, collared or, a bordure azure besantee. 



The Whites of Basingstoke and Farnham were 

 descended respectively from Jenkinf and John, the 

 two sons of Thomas White of Pernix, or Purvile, 

 in Hants. 



Of the former family the most celebrated member 

 was Kichard White, the son of Henry White of 

 Basingstoke. He was educated at Winchester and 

 New Colleges, of which latter he was admitted 

 Fellow in 1557. Leaving England on account of 

 his religious opinions, he went to Lou vain, and 

 afterwards to Padua, where he became D.C.L. Sub- 

 sequently he was created by the Emperor a '* Comes 

 Palatinus," and by the Pope "Magnificus Eector" of 



* In the Oxfordshire and earlier Selborne monuments the shield is or. 

 t A. a Wood states that Jenkin White ** had almost half the town of 

 Basingstoke in his possession." 



