John White Esq. of Southwick

May be the grandson, rather than the son, of Johannes White.

Esquire of the body to Henry VIII, received from him the manor of Southwick (formerly a priory) and other large land grants.

Married three times (according to Burke's Landed Gentry, which take with a grain of salt):

1. Catherine, sister of Anthony Pounde, Esq. and daughter of William Pounde (son Edward and "other issue")
2. Anne, daughter of Lewis Wingfield and widow of Anthony Pounde, Esq. (daughter was Mary Pounde who married her cousin Edward White)
3. Isabel Vachell, widow of George Dabrichcourt (no known issue)

Catherine Pound must have been his first recorded wife and Anne Wingfield Pounde his second wife (Burke has them in the wrong order). (An unrecorded previous wife is a possibility too.)

http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1907/white/white1.htm Anne Wingfield was widowed in 1547. John was widowed in 1548. They married sometime after that. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/1566...

THE WHITE FAMILY John White was born at Havant and by grant of Henry VIII he became the proprietor of the site of Southwick Priory and a considerable part of its possessions, including Portchester Castle. He was a burgess of Portsmouth and connected with it by office as Steward of the Court Leet and by his relationship with several of its inhabitants. He was the half-brother or brother-in-law of Francis Robins and cousin to Henry Bickley, both of Portsmouth, and both members of the Corporation. He was also the brother-in-law of Ralph Henslow who, as well as Mr. Bickley, sat in Parliament for the borough. By his will he gave a small sum to each of a great number of parishes in the county, principally to those in the neighbourhood, including Portsmouth and Portsea; and he strictly enjoined his son to keep up hospitality at Southwick in reference to what had been the custom there before the dissolution of the Convent. His directions as to his funeral are somewhat singular:- "Item. I will that at the day of my burial the Lady Lawrence, Mr. William Uvedale and his wife, my sister Pounde, Mr William Bowyer and his wife, Mr Bickley and his wife, Mr. Peter Tichbourne and his wife, Mr. Anthony Quick and his wife and my brother Francis Robins of Portsmouth and his wife be desired to dine at Southwick, where I would they should have the best cheer that my son may provide for them, and after dinner I will that my executors do give unto every gentleman an English crown piece as a token of remembrance of my good will to buy every one of them a pair of gloves." His son Edward married his cousin and one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Anthony Pounde of Drayton, and died leaving an only-son John White II. The latter married Frances, daughter of—Buller of Badmington, Gloucester, by whom he had issue Bridget, who married Sir Henry Kingsmill, and Honora, who married Sir Daniel Norton. Richard Norton, the friend of Cromwell, was the second son of Sir Daniel by his wife Honora, and by the death of his eldest brother he became possessed of the Southwick property which had belonged to his ancestor, John White. All three of the Whites served the office of Sheriff of the County. All three of the Whites served the office of Sheriff of the County, the first in 1559-60, Edward in 1572 and John in 1597.

Note added [Gap of approx 100 years between these two pareagraphs]

John White built a " Victualling House " called the " Antelope," in the High-street, in the year 1672, some remains of which still exist behind 19, High-street. He became Mayor in 1690, and his initials appear on the keystone of the arch above the west entrance of St. Thomas's Church. He died in 1698, leaving two sons. Mary White, daughter of James, and niece of John White, of the " Antelope," was mother of Alderman John Carter, who, with his sons and grandsons, filled the Mayor's office no less than 32 times. The last Mayor belonging to the White family was Sir Henry White, who was Mayor in 1813-4, and was knighted by the Prince Regent on the visit of the Allied Sovereigns to Portsmouth. He descended from William, a younger brother of John White, of the " Antelope."

http://historyinportsmouth.co.uk/people/families/portsmouth-familie...

Little is known of the antecedents and early career of John White who by various purchases over several years acquired Southwick Priory and the greater part of its home possessions. He was born at Havant and was closely linked by marriage with the Pound family of Farlington. At the time of his purchase of the site of the Priory in 1539 he was an esquire of the body in the household of Henry VIII and the seven years which he states in his will that he lived at Heston and Hounslow were no doubt occupied in service to the court and principal officers of State. Like other men of ambition who were anxious to obtain estates and influence in Hampshire he sought the favour of Thomas Wriothesley, later Lord Chancellor, and it was from Wriothesley that White purchased the most valuable part of the Southwick estate in 1546.

It was John White who on behalf of the King took the surrender of Southwick Priory from William Noxton on 7th April 1538 and he immediately obtained a personal interest in its lands. He first secured possession of the site of the Priory and its demesne lands by a 21 years lease dated the 17th May 1538 and by Letters Patent dated 15th March in the following year he purchased the Priory and demesne outright for the sum of £251 13s. 4d. After this he successively added to his new estate by purchases of other Priory lands and also lands previously in private hands in Southwick and the neighbouring parishes. Thus he bought on 28th May 1542 a life interest in the forfeited estates of Hugh Holland, attainted for high treason, and by Letters Patent of 28th May 1544 he secured their reversion, together with the rectories and advowsons of Wymering and Wanstead and lands in Southwick, Boarhunt, Wymering, Wanstead and Widley which had formerly belonged to the Priory.

From Thomas Wriothesley he had purchased in 1544 the united manors of Boarhunt Herbert, Herbelyn and Bury, the lands of which lay partly in Southwick parish. Then on 12th June 1546 he gained the most valuable part of the former possession of the Priory, comprising the manor of Southwick itself, the rectory and advowson of the church, together with the manor of Newland, the advowson of Widley rectory, and all the manorial rights and privileges formerly enjoyed by the Priory, and for this he paid Wriothesley the considerable sum of £914 1s. 0d. White's last purchase was in 1560 when he bought from the Crown Wicor manor in Portchester at one time part of the possessions of Titchfield Abbey.

One manor in Southwick came to the White family by inheritance and this was the manor of Belney. Belney had in early times belonged to the Sturmy family but by the 15th century it was in the possession of the Holts. From Holt it descended to John Pound, whose grandson Anthony Pound died leaving two daughters, Honor, the wife of Henry Ratcliffe, 4 Earl of Sussex, and Mary, the wife of Edward White, John White's son and heir. The lands of Anthony Pound were partitioned in 1560 and Mary received Belney with the manors of Wishanger and Lymborne and property in Winchester as her share of the estates. The court rolls and account rolls dating from 1350 provide a remarkable example of the survival of manorial records of a private manor. The earliest account rolls are significant for the references they contain to William of Wykeham acting possibly as steward of the manor. Among other purchases by the owners of the Southwick estate of lands in Southwick itself were some 50 acres at Bickford bought in 1599, and a messuage and 30 acres called Cullens, bought by Richard Norton in 1724, the title deeds of which survive from 1410. Other purchases of property appear among the documents received from the Southwick Estate (see 4M53).

After his acquisition of the Priory John White became involved in local affairs and politics. He had considerable influence in Portsmouth affairs, partly through his office as steward of the court leet there, as burgess elected in 1553 and through his family connections, particularly Henry Byckley and Ralph Henslowe. Before his purchase of the manor of Southwick he was crown bailiff and clerk of the market of Southwick, and also acted as crown escheator in Hampshire. It is likely that he was trained in the law and appears to have acted as his own steward for Southwick and his other manors. His entries in the court book and his notes that survive shew him to have been diligent in enquiring into the rights and privileges belonging to his manors and jealous of their preservation and defence, a characteristic shared by his descendents, particularly Sir Daniel Norton.

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/36343a7c-82a0-4...

St James, Southwick, church memorial: The tomb-chest of John Whyte (White) bears the brasses of his wife, himself and their children. When the brasses were removed for repair in late 1982, it was discovered that this impressive monument is made up of three separate elements, three tombs in one. The altar tomb base dates from the late 15th century. The slab, complete with brasses, is an example of Reformation spoil. The canopy was added when the Church was restored by John Whyte in 1566, but the cherubs and heraldic shields are part of the original installation. The weathered stone-work of the North panel of the tomb shows that at some time it had stood in the open, probably at the Priory. Whyte converted the buildings into a small mansion and his wife died there in 1548. He died nineteen years later, only a year after the restoration of the Church, which also serves as his memorial. It seems likely that the tomb was taken to the Church at that time. The figures on the brasses date from c 1520. Extra daughters were added and shields, and a new marginal inscription by a London brass workshop which produced some 60 or so monuments from 1548 until later in the 16th century.

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000290/1934040...

Perpetual Memory: The late Mr A. T. Everitt. of Portsmouth, contributed a most interesting article on this subject to Notes and Queries." In his will John White wrote: I would that my posterity should have the 7th April, being then Passion Sunday, in perpetual memory, that the poor people may be something refreshed always on Passion Sunday. . . . Every Passion Sunday next after my decease, and from thence for ever, immediately after the service finished, I will that there given among twenty of the most needy people within the parish Southwicke 2Os.’’

Recorder of Portsmouth: In 1553, fourteen years after purchasing the priory. John 'White was admitted burgess of the Corporation of Portsmouth, and the following year he was appointed Seneschal, or Steward—a post said to be somewhat similar to that of Recorder. ln the borough records there is an account of a court held by him in December, 1554, when Roger Stanton, the Master Gunner of Portsmouth, was disfranchised for using indecent and insulting language to the Mayor, and was also heavily fined for carrying off one gunne of iron belonging the town.

May be the grandson, rather than the son, of Johannes White.

Is this one person, or two? Middle names were hardly ever used in the Middle Ages. (Aliases, on the other hand, sometimes were used - and occasionally for good reasons!)

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Papers_and_Proceedings/d8FAA...

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/A_Genealogical_and_Heraldic_...