SIR SAMPSON WHITE'S SONS 13 



"early on Sunday morning 28 Sep'* 1684 at his house in 

 S. Marie's parish, opposite to Universitie College, aged 78, and 

 was buried on the 5 th Oct. in S. Marie's Church, viz. between 

 the dore leading thence into Adam Brome's chappell and the 

 buttress of the steeple, on the north side of this church." 



A long Latin inscription under his coat-of-arms 

 records his dignities and virtues, and states that he 

 was " ab omnibus desideratus." ^ 



He left a family of five sons, three of whom 

 became graduates of the University, and one daughter. 

 John White, born 1636, his eldest son, of Magdalen 

 and afterwards of University College, M.A., J.P. ; 

 Richard White, born 1647; Henry White, born 1648, 

 who succeeded his father in his business and also 

 became Mayor of Oxford. He built a large house 

 at Chalgrove, near Warborough, Oxfordshire. Gil- 

 bert, born 1650, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College; 

 and Francis, born 1652, M.A., B.D., Fellow of Balliol 

 College. 



Some mention is made by Wood of these sons 

 of Sir Sampson. John White is spoken of as a 

 justice of the peace and living in the parish of 

 Witney, f '* but the said John White, showing him- 

 self too malapert when the popish plot broke out, 

 was left out of the commission [of the peace] 1679." 



* Sir Sampson White's hatchment, together with that of his son Gilbert, 

 was preserved in Selborne Church, where they were seen in 1844 by a 

 member of the author's family, They have since disappeared. 



t At Swan Hall apparently. Vide map in Plot's 'Natural History of 

 Oxfordshire,' in which the arms of "White, Esq.," are referred by number 

 to Haley, in Witney parish. 



