THE WHITES OF OXFOKDSHIKE 7 



mortuo,' and threatened to excommunicate the 

 Queen, who committed him to the Tower in April, 

 1559, and deprived him of his bishopric." He 

 was shortly afterwards, however, permitted to re- 

 tire to his sisters. Lady White's, house at South 

 Warnborough, where he died on the 11th January 

 following. ^ 



Another son of Eobert White of Farnham, Sir 

 John White, Lord Mayor of London in 1563, 

 founded a branch of the family at Aldershot. 

 His grandson Eobert White, however, being the 

 only surviving male member of his family and 

 dying without issue, the family became then ex- 

 tinct in the male line. Eobert White's two sisters 

 married two brothers. Sir Eichard Tichborne of 

 Tichborne, Bart., and Sir Walter Tichborne of 

 Aldershot, Knight. 



It has been stated that according to Anthony a 

 Wood the Whites of Oxfordshire, who were un- 

 doubtedly the immediate ancestors of the Whites 

 of Selborne, were descended from a member of the 

 South Warnborough branch of the family. Follow- 

 ing, however. Wood's earlier account we find that 

 he traced his contemporary. Sir Sampson White, 

 Mayor of Oxford, from a family settled at " Cogges 



* It may perhaps be of some interest to note that when, a few years ago, 

 eight apostle spoons which had belonged to Bishop John White were sent to 

 Christie's by descendants, in the female line, of Dame Agnes White, they 

 fetched no less than 265 guineas. It was stated that had the other three 

 spoons and the ** king " spoon been also sold, the lot would probably have 

 fetched 1,000 guineas. 



