GILBERT WHITE AND HIS SUSSEX CONNECTIONS. 299 



whereas since executing my said will I have suffered a recovery of 

 my estate at East Harting, otherwise Harting, in the County of Sussex, 



now I do hereby give and devise unto ray all that my messuage, 



farm lands, tenements and hereditaments (no doubt Woodhouse), with the 

 appurtenances, situate and being in the parish of East Harting, otherwise 

 Herting, in the County of Sussex, called or known by the several names of 

 Deane's, Boye's, Woodhouse, and Maxwell's, or by whatsoever other name 

 or names the same or any part thereof is called or known. To hold unto 



him my said , his heirs and assigns, for ever. And I do declare this to 



be a codicil to my said will, &c, &c. Dated the day of January, 1792." 



It may not be known that the greatest collection of relics of 

 Gilbert White and his kindred is at present in Sussex. Rev. 

 Edmund Field, M.A., showed his treasures at Lancing College to 

 the White family, and gave a most interesting address on his 

 great ancestor, which riveted the attention of all present. Mr. 

 Field is a direct descendant of Gilbert White, and most materially 

 assisted the late Prof. Bell in his edition of White's ' Selborne.' 

 There were present the Earl of Stamford, Mr. H. M. I. Rashleigh 

 Holt-White and his lady, Ven. Archdeacon White (Queensland), 

 Mr. William White, architect (who produced a fine design for the 

 water conduit proposed for Selborne), and Mrs. White, Mrs. and 

 Misses E. and Agnes Martelli (Hampstead), and Rev. Henry 

 Alcock White, Fellow and Tutor of New College, Oxford. These 

 eleven represented the White family, distinguished by its attain- 

 ment of no less than eight first classes at Oxford, the youngest 

 member having recently obtained three first classes and two 

 University prizes at Oxford. Canon Lowe, Warden of Lancing 

 College, was also present. 



The room abounded with relics of the White family, the 

 Selborne treasures of Prof. Bell, and many others added, pictures 

 of Charles I., wearing the Oxford blue of the Garter, and Henrietta 

 Maria, his queen ; a magnificent Jansen of Benjamin Hyde, 

 formerly at Selborne, and already referred to ; also of the Rev. 

 Sampson White, head of the great Hampshire family of White, 

 descended from John White, Bishop of Lincoln, and subsequently 

 of Winchester, and Warden of Winchester College in Mary 

 Tudor's time (1541-1554). Ultimately the White family claim 

 the royal Plantagenet blood of Henry III. Space would fail to 

 give an idea of the vivacity and wit with which the accomplished 

 lecturer handled every scrap of antiquity, from the sword of Sir 



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