WHITE, John II (1590-1645), of the Middle Temple and Whitefriars, London

Family and Education

b. 26 June 1590, 2nd s. of Henry White (d. 1613) of Henllan, Rhoscrowther, Pemb., and Jane, da. of Richard Fletcher of Bangor.Pemb. Historian, v. 69. educ. Jesus, Oxf. 20 Nov. 1607, ‘aged 17’;Al. Ox. M. Temple, 6 Nov. 1610.MTR ii. 528. m. (1) bef. 1625, Katherine, da. of Edward Barforte or Barfoot of Lambourne, Essex, 1da.; (2) 1 Sept. 1631, Mary, da. of Thomas Style of Little Missenden, Bucks., 4s. 5da.St Dunstan in the West, London, par. reg.; St Stephen, Coleman Street, par. reg.; Pemb. Historian, v. 69; Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xvii), 346; London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster, 1451. d. 30 Jan. 1645.Mercurius Britannicus no. 68 (27 Jan.-3 Feb. 1645), 540 (E.27.8).

Offices Held

Legal: called, M. Temple 19 June 1618; autumn reader, 1641; bencher, 1641.MTR ii. 629, 900, 910.

Mercantile: member, Virg. Co. May 1623; Dorchester Co. 1625 – 33; Massachusetts Bay Co. 1629.Genesis of the US ed. A. Brown (1890), ii. 1051; I.M. Calder, Activities of the Puritan Faction (1957), p. xxiv; F. Rose Troup, The Massachusetts Bay Co. and its Predecessors (New York, 1930), 85.

Religious: feoffee for impropriations, 1625–32.T. Fuller, Church Hist. vi. 67.

Local: ?j.p. Haverfordwest, Pemb. 26 June 1635–?C181/5, f. 21. Commr. ?sewers, Mdx 22 June 1639;C181/5, f. 143. assessment, Surr. 21 Mar. 1643;LJ v. 658b. accts. of assessment, Southwark and adjacent parishes 3 May 1643; levying of money, Surr. 3 Aug. 1643.A. and O. Member, cttee. for I.o.W. 29 Mar. 1644.CJ iii. 440b. Commr. oyer and terminer, Surr. 4 July 1644; gaol delivery, 4 July 1644.C181/5, ff. 239, 239v.

Central: member, recess cttee. 9 Sept. 1641;CJ ii. 288b. cttee. for examinations, 17 Aug. 1642;CJ ii. 725a. cttee. for plundered ministers ?by 2 Feb. 1643, by 10 Dec. 1644;CJ ii. 951b; Add. 15669, f. 239. Westminster Assembly, 12 June 1643;A. and O. cttee. for sequestrations by 5 Apr. 1644.SP20/1, f. 132.

: of the Middle Temple and Whitefriars, London.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WHITE, John II (1590-1645), of the Middle Temple and Whitefriars, London

Will

not found.

Estates

residence in Whitefriars, bef. June 1632;St Dunstan in the West par. reg. lease on messuage in St Sepulchre, London, bef. 10 May 1643.CJ iii. 79a.

Oxford 1644

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