A letter addressed to Sir John Bernard Burke, Ulster King-of-Arms of All Ireland : with an appendix of documents and notes.

  • Jones, Thomas Wharton, 1808-1891.
Date:
1867]
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Credit: A letter addressed to Sir John Bernard Burke, Ulster King-of-Arms of All Ireland : with an appendix of documents and notes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Loose, the Tanner, wlio died in 1725, if descended from Thomas Whatman, the Kccorder of Chichester, at all, could only have been the grandson of one or other of his two sons. Your parenthetical mode of mentioning James Whatman, of Loose, the Tanner, who died in 1725, in the portion of the pedigree above quoted, may here be noticed for its peculiarity, viz.,—“ From them descended * * * James Whatman, only sou of James Whatman (who died in 1725) by Mary his Wife (who died the following year).” Of course, if James Whatman, the “ only son,” was so descended, James Whatman, the Father of that son, must, a fortiori, have been so descended. Henry Whatman of Maiden Bradley, county Wilts, who died in 1708 at a very advanced age, it may be observed, might have been descended from Thomas Whatman, the Ee- corder of Chichester (Appendix XIV.), but there is no proof that I can find that such was the case. And, certainly, there ^ is nowhere the slightest indication of any relationship between the family of Henry Whatman of Maiden Bradley and that of James Whatman of Loose, Tanner, who died in 1725. (Appendix XV.) This James Whatman of Loose, county Kent, Tanner, the Grandfather of Mrs. Susannah Elizabeth Philips, wee Whatman, thus appears to be really the first true ancestor of that Lady adduced in the Whatman “Lineage ”in the ‘Landed Gentry.’ Whether the Tanner of Loose or his son the Paj)er Maker of Boxley (successor of Eichard Harris) used armorial bearings, I do not know; but I find that Mr. Eichard Elliston Philips used a seal with his own arms (that of the London and Buckinghamshire Philippses, viz.. Or, a lion rampant sable, ducally gorged and chained, or) impaling a shield with parti per pale or and sable, a Pheon counter-changed.