DIARY OF WILLIAM WHITEWAY. 59 



Oct. 1, 1619. Mr. John Parkins was chosen to his third 

 Baillewicke ; Mr. Dennis Bond, Constable, with Mr. John Cooke 

 and Matthew Buttler, shoemaker, being the first year that we had 

 three constables. 



November. Sir Anthony Ashley was chosen sheriff of Dorsett, 

 being an ancient gentleman and knighted in Calais by the Earl of 

 Essex for his valour. He chose for his under-sheriff Mr. John 

 Cole the younger of Piddletown." 



It is not generally known that the Ashley family has been so long and 

 so honourably connected with the town, and that Sir Anthony Ashley 

 was knighted for his valour on the field of battle. Sir Anthony and Sir 

 Francis Ashley are frequently mentioned in this diary. 



"Feb. 26, 1619. The beginning of this year was very sickly 

 for all sorts of persons, especially of young children. A great 

 number have died since the first of- January. 



Ap. 6, 1620. Was concluded the marriage betwixt me Wm. 

 Whiteway, and Eleanor Parkins, my best beloved wife which I 

 pray God to bless and prosper. 



May 4, 1620. The said W.W. and E.P. were be wroth ed in my 

 father Parkins his hall about 9 of the clock at night, by Mr. 

 John White in the presence of our parents, Uncle John Gould, C. 

 Darby, and their wives, my cousin Joan Gould widow, and my 

 sister Margarie Parkins. 



June 14, 1620. I William Whiteway was married to Eleanor 

 Parkins by Mr. John White in the Church of the Holy Trinity in 

 Dorchester, in the presence of the greatest part of the town, which 

 marriage I pray God to bless that it may turn to his glory and our 

 good, and the comfort of all our friends. 



The wedding ring had this posy " Conjugii firmi et casti sum 

 pignus amoris." 



This John White Rector of Holy Trinity Dorchester was a remarkable 

 character, according to Hutchins he was born in 1575, was educated at 

 Winchester School, became a fellow of New College in 1595, and Rector 

 of H. Trinity in 1606. At first he was a moderate Puritan, and 

 conformed to the Church of England, but in the beginning of the Long 

 Parliament he, together witk Hugh Thomson, who came as lecturer here 



