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- ↑ 'Pedigree of Whyte', in W.H. Rylands (ed.), Pedigrees from the Visitation of Hampshire by Thomas Benolt, 1530, and 1575, 1622-34, Harleian Society LXIV (1913), pp. 12-13, and pp. 81-83 (Internet Archive).
- ↑ Will of Robert White, Merchant of Farnham, Surrey (P.C.C. 1518, Ayloffe quire).
- ↑ "XXVII. John White, D.D., The Last of the Catholic Bishops", in S.H. Cassan, The Lives of the Bishops of Winchester, from Birinus, the first bishop of the West Saxons, to the Present Time, 2 vols (C. and J. Rivington, London 1827), I, pp. 544-51 (Google).
- ↑ 'John Whyte', in A. a Wood, ed. P. Bliss, Athenae Oxonienses, ...to which are added The Fasti, New edition (F.C. & J. Rivington, London 1813), I, cols 311-14 (Google).
- ↑ Will of Henry White, Priest (P.C.C. 1538, Dyngeley quire).
- ↑ Will of Robert Whitte or White, Clothier of Farnham, Surrey (P.C.C. 1534, Hogen quire).
- ↑ A.M. Mimardiere, 'White, Sir John (d.1573), of London and Aldershot, Hants.', in P.W. Hasler (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (from Boydell and Brewer 1981), History of Parliament Online. Note: John White the younger was the sixth son, not the fifth.
See O.H.S. i. 356; & Fasti, i. 78, 86.
