6 GILBEET WHITE OF SELBOENE 



Douay, at which place he died a canon of S. Peter's 

 Church in 1611. 



He wrote under the name of Ricardus Vitus 

 Basinstockius, his principal work being a History 

 of the British Isles, "ab origine mundi." He also 

 wrote some orations ; two of which, spoken at 

 Louvain, were published by Christopher Johnson, 

 Headmaster of Winchester College, about 1564, and 

 commanded by him to be read publicly in the school 

 by the scholars ; also a geometrical treatise, entitled 

 ** Hemisphaerium Dissectum,"^ and other works. 

 With Eichard White the Basingstoke family seems 

 to have become extinct in the male line. 



The Farnham branch of the family produced a 

 man of some eminence in John White (son of 

 Eobert White of Farnham), who was born at that 

 place in 1511. According to Anthony a Wood,t he 

 was " educated in grammar learning at Wykeham's 

 School, near Winchester, Fellow of New College in 

 1527, M.A. in 1533 (and about that time master 

 of the said school). Warden in 1541." 



In Queen Mary's reign he was Bishop of Lincoln, 

 and subsequently of Winchester. He " helped burn 

 Eidley, preached a black sermon on Queen Mary's 

 death of Elizabeth, ' melior est canis vivus leone 



* In the Imprimatur appended to this mathematical dissertation 

 (which is gravely stated to contain '* nihil contra fidem aut bonos mores ") 

 the author is described as "Richardus Albius nobilis Anglus praeillustri 

 et antiquissima familia apud Anglos natus." In this book his arms are 

 rcpregented as tliose of the South Warnborough family. 



t ' AtheniB Oxonienses' (Ed. Bliss), vol. ii. p. 118. 



