at Douay, where he married twice and acquired great wealth by each wife. By order of the pope he was made, though out of his ordinary turn, ‘magnificus rector’ of the university, and about the same time he was created ‘comes palatinus.’
After the death of his second wife he was, by dispensation of Clement VIII, ordained priest, and about the same time a canonry in the church of St. Peter at Douay was bestowed upon him. In his favourite study of British history he received encouragement from Thomas Godwell, bishop of St. Asaph, Sir Henry Peacham, and Sir Francis Englefield, formerly privy councillors to Queen Mary; but chiefly from Cardinal Baronius, with whom he maintained a constant correspondence (Dodd, Church Hist. ii. 383). He died at Douay in 1611, and was buried in the church of St. Jacques in that city (Addit. MS. 5803, ff. 99, 100).
His works are: 1. ‘Ælia Lælia Crispis. Epitaphium antiquum quod in agro Bononiensi adhuc uidetur; a diuersis hactenus interpretatum uarie: nouissime autem a Ricardo Vito Basinstochio, amicorum precibus explicatum,’ Padua, 1568, 4to. Dedicated to Christopher Johnson, chief master of Winchester school; reprinted, Dort, 1618, 16mo. 2. ‘Orationes: (1) De circulo artium et philosophiæ. (2) De eloquentia et Cicerone. (3) Pro divitiis regum. (4) Pro doctoratu. (5) De studiorum finibus. Cum notis rerum variarum et antiquitatis,’ Arras, 1596, 8vo. The first two, delivered at Louvain, were published by Christopher Johnson, 1564, 1565, and ordered by him to be read publicly in Winchester school. 3. ‘R. Viti … Notæ ad leges Decem-virorum in duodecim tabulis; institutiones juris civilis in quattuor libris: primam partem Digestorum in quattuor libris,’ 2 parts, Arras, 1597, 8vo. 4. ‘Historiarum (Britanniæ) libri (1–11) … cum notis antiquitatum Britannicarum’ [edited by Thomas White], 7 parts, Arras and Douay, 1597–1607, 8vo. The author's portrait is prefixed to this work. 5. ‘Oratio septima de religione legum Romanorum, ad reverendum Dominum, Dominum Nicolaum Manifroy, electum Abbatem Bertinianum,’ Douay, 1604, 8vo. 6. ‘Brevis explicatio privilegiorum iuris et consuetudinis circa venerabile sacramentum Eucharistiæ,’ Douay, 1609, 8vo. 7. ‘De Reliquiis et Veneratione Sanctorum,’ Douay, 1609. 8. ‘Brevis explicatio Martyrii Sanctæ Ursulæ et undecim millium Virginum Britannarum,’ Douay, 1610, 8vo.
[Dodd's Church Hist. ii. 382; Duthillœul's Bibl. Douaisienne, 1842, pp. 145, 160, 161; Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714; Granger's Biogr. Hist. of England, 5th edit. i. 272; Kirby's Annals of Winchester College, p. 276; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. ed. Bohn, p. 2902; Pits, De Angliæ Scriptoribus, p. 806; Records of the English Catholics, i. 446; Tanner's Bibl. Brit.; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, ii. 118.]
WHITE, alias Johnson, RICHARD (1604–1687), devotional writer, was born in the diocese of Winchester, of poor Roman catholic parents, in 1604, and entered the English College at Douay in 1623, when he adopted the name of Johnson, which he retained for the rest of his life. He was ordained priest on 23 Feb. 1629–30. On 23 May 1630 he was sent from Douay to assist Stephen Barnes as confessor of the English Augustinian canonesses of St. Monica's at Louvain. He acted in that capacity for twenty years, and for thirty-six years after Barnes's death he was principal confessor to the community. He died in the convent on 12 Jan. 1686–7.
He left in manuscript a large number of devotional treatises, most of which were lost at the time of the French Revolution. One of them, entitled ‘The Suppliant of the Holy Ghost: a Paraphrase of the “Veni Sancte Spiritus,”’ was printed at London in 1878, 8vo, under the editorship of the Rev. Thomas Edward Bridgett, who appended to it two other treatises, believed to have been also written by White, entitled ‘A Paraphrase of the Pater Noster’ and ‘Meditations on the Blessed Sacrament.’
[Memoir by Bridgett; Records of the English Catholics, i. 23.]
WHITE, ROBERT (1540?–1574), musician, was probably born about 1540. His father, who outlived him, was also named Robert. A John White supplicated Mus. Bac. Oxon. in 1528. There is some reason to suppose that the elder Robert White was an organ-builder. In 1531, and on several subsequent occasions until 1545, a Magister White repaired the organ of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was wrongly identified by Cope with the composer, but may have been his father. The parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, in 1553 ‘gave young Whyte 5l. for ye great orgaynes wh his father made for ye church.’ This organ was sold in 1572 to ‘Robert White, gentleman of Westminster,’ and John Thomas. In 1574 the elder Robert White had been for some time living with his son at Westminster, and these entries may not improbably all refer to him.
The first definite fact recorded of the younger White is that, having studied music ten years, he graduated Mus. Bac. Cantabr. on 13 Dec. 1560. He was required, under penalty
