GILBERT WHITES ANCESTORS. 
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nephew) having told him that in the frontispiece of the quarto 
edition of the Sdbovne the figure coming up the hill was intended 
for Gilbert, and, though not exactly a portrait, was in general 
outline very like him. We have, then, an approximate likeness 
of Gilbert. He remembers, too, a saying that his own grand- 
mother — Rebecca Luckin, a vigorous country girl — “ brought all 
the health into the family.” The two bound volumes of MS. 
correspondence between Gilbert and Tom Mulso form the- great 
treasure — hitherto, I believe, unexplored — in Dr. J. T. White’s 
possession. The full pedigree of the family, very carefully 
compiled and tested by Dr. J. T. White’s father, is also a 
valuable document. 
(2) The early lineage of the Whites, as attested by this 
pedigree and by the monumental evidence in South Warn- 
borough Church. 
Apparently the Whites were originally settled at Farnham, 
whence Robert White migrated to South Warnbprough, and 
was lord of the manor there in the middle of the 1 5th century. 
His wife was Alice Lynholme. He was succeeded by his son. 
Sir John, who married Alice, daughter of Robert Lord Hunger- 
ford. Sir John was succeeded by his son Robert, who married 
Margaret Gainsford, and died August 4th, 1513. A fine brass 
in South Warnborough Church is inscribed : — “ Hie jacet 
Robertus Whyte armig filius Johns Whyte militis quondum 
duus istuis villae qui obiit quarto die Augusti a" regni Henrici 
octavi quarto cujus ale ppiietur Deus. Amen.” 
Then came his son Robert, who married Elizabeth, daughter 
of Sir Thomas Inglefield, and died 1521. Then succeeded his 
son. Sir Thomas, Sheriff of London, who married his kins- 
woman, Agnes White, sister of Dr. John White (of Farnham), 
who became Bishop of Winchester, and who made himself 
extremely objectionable to Queen Elizabeth by his steady 
adhesion to the unreformed religion. Dr. John White was 
imprisoned in the Tower, but was allowed to spend his last 
years with his sister at South Warnborough. 
Strange to say, there was another Sir Thomas White, Lord 
Mayor of London, 1553, and founder of St. John’s College, 
Oxford, who was almost contemporary. He died at Oxford, 
February nth, 1566. 
Sir Thomas’s monument at South Warnborough is a striking 
one, and there is a singular stateliness and pathos in the in- 
scription : — 
“ Thomas and Agnes crye unto God and saye. We trust to 
see the goodness of God in the land of life. They had born 
xiii. sonnes and v. daughters. Thys sayde Sir Thomas Whyte, 
Knight, departed this present life the second of November and in 
the yeare of our Lord God 1560. Dame Agnes yelded unto God 
of the works of His hands the xv. day of January in the yeare 
of our Lorde God 1570. Lord Jhesu take our soules unto thy 
mercye. Sir Thomas departed in London and my Laydy in 
