[1227]Dr. Daniel Whistler borne at Walthamstowe[1228] in Essex.
[1229]Daniel Whistler, M.D., dyed (May 11, 1684), president of the Physitians' College.
James Whitney (1593-166-).
[1230]Parson Whitney was a great nomenclator of Oxford men, being an old fellow there; and were he alive now would be 81.
[1231]My old cosen, parson Whitney, told me that in the visitation of Oxon in Edward VI's time they burned mathematical bookes for conjuring bookes, and, if the Greeke professor had not accidentally come along, the Greeke testament had been thrown into the fire for a conjuring booke too.
John Whitson (1557-1629).
[1232]John Whitson, alderman of the city of Bristol. John Whitson was borne at Cover in the Forest of Deane in the countie of Glocester. He went to schoole at Bristow, where he made a good proficience in the Latin tongue. He was bound apprentice to alderman Vawr, a Spanish merchant of this city. He was a handsome young fellow; and his old master the alderman being dead, his mistress one day called him into the wine-cellar and bad him broach the best butt in the cellar for her.... His mistresse after maried him. This story will last perhaps as long as Bristol is a city.