John White (chaplain)

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John White (1570–1615) was an English

clergyman
, known as a royal chaplain and controversialist.

John White

Life

The son of Peter White, vicar of

St. Neots grammar school. He was admitted a sizar of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on 15 February 1586, was scholar from Lady-day 1588 to Michaelmas 1592, and graduated B.A. in 1590, M.A. in 1593, and D.D. in 1612.[1][2]

White was appointed vicar of

Collegiate Church, Manchester, in 1606. He resigned these offices in 1609 on being presented by Sir John Crofts to the rectory of Barsham in Suffolk. In 1614 or 1615 he was made chaplain in ordinary to James I.[1]

White died at the age of 45, in 1615, in Lombard Street, London. He was buried on 28 May 1615 at the church of St Mary Woolnoth. He left seven children. The eldest, John, entered Gonville and Caius College in 1611, aged 16, and became vicar of Eaton Socon; another son is mentioned by Thomas Fuller as a druggist in Lombard Street.[1]

Works

White wrote The Way to the True Church: wherein the principal Motives perswading to Romanisme are familiarly disputed and driven to their Issues, London, 1608. It was directed against the Treatise of Faith of the Jesuit

Antichrist against the Catholic Church.[4]

The Way to the True Church was answered by Percy (known as A. D. or Fisher) in A Reply Made unto Mr. Anthony Wotton and Mr. John White (1612).

Leonard Lessius to dispute the possibility of salvation outside the Catholic church.[6]

The Way to the True Church also contains examples gathered by White in his time at Eccles, of folkways and what he considered superstitious belief. He attributed these in part to the continuing influence of Catholic priests, on what remained a largely Catholic local congregation.[7]

John White also published:

  • English Paradise, discovered in a Latine Prospect of Jacobs Blessing, a Sermon on Gen. xxvii. 27, London, 1612.
  • Two Sermons: the Former at Pauls Crosse on 1 Tim. ii. 1, upon the Anniversary Commemoration of the Kings most happy Succession to the Crowne of England; the Latter at the Spittle on 1 Tim. vi. 17, London, 1615.

His works were collected and republished by his brother Francis in 1624 in one volume folio.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "White, John (1570-1615)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ a b "White, John (WHT585J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ISBN 978-0-85115-590-6
    . Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  4. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29997. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  5. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29252. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  6. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30066. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  7. ISBN 978-0-7661-5672-2
    . Retrieved 5 July 2013.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "White, John (1570-1615)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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