The history and antiquities, ancient and modern, of the Borough of Reading, in the County of Berks . County, pag. , contrary to these two, Mr. Griffin Ifiggs, at first fellow of St. Johns college, and afterwardsfellow of Merton college, in Oxford, who wrote sir Thomas Whites Life (who died the uth ofFebruary 1566) has fixed the place of his nativity at Reading. Ashmole. Fuller probably followed Stowe in his Survey of London, wherein he says, Sir Thomas White,merchant-taylor, Sonne to Thomay White, of Rickmansworth, in Hertfordshire. He was sheriffof London in 1547, and lord mayor 1553.
The history and antiquities, ancient and modern, of the Borough of Reading, in the County of Berks . County, pag. , contrary to these two, Mr. Griffin Ifiggs, at first fellow of St. Johns college, and afterwardsfellow of Merton college, in Oxford, who wrote sir Thomas Whites Life (who died the uth ofFebruary 1566) has fixed the place of his nativity at Reading. Ashmole. Fuller probably followed Stowe in his Survey of London, wherein he says, Sir Thomas White,merchant-taylor, Sonne to Thomay White, of Rickmansworth, in Hertfordshire. He was sheriffof London in 1547, and lord mayor 1553. + The 4/. surplus was formerly employed to defray the expenses of the mayor in going to Londonto receive the legacy, but as the money is now paid without being attended with any expense, themayor, it is said, ought not, to appropriate it to his own use, particularly as the persons to whom thetwenty-five pounds each are lent, now pay the expenses of their bonds, contrary to the will of thedonor, who expressly says, the money shall be lent without deductions. Stowes Survey of London. » Folio SUl TM03(AS Willi K,
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