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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    record of the Jjenchers of the Inner Temple for a period within which the year 1626 is embraced. Inquiries at Chichester have not supplied me with any information respecting the name of the Eecorder of that city in 1626. From the Calendar of State Papers, however, I find that a Thomas Whatman was, in 1626, removed from the Eecorder- ship of Chichester for certain misdemeanours (Appendix XIII.); and, according to Dugdale, there was a Eeader of the Inner Temple, Anno ij° Jacobi, of the name of Thomas Watman. This Thomas Watman and Thomas Whatman, the deposed Eecorder of Chichester, were probably one and the same person. But the question presents itself: What evidence is there that James Whatman of Loose, the Tanner, who died in 1725, was descended from him ? As no attempt is made in your article under notice to show that Thomas and Edward, the sons of Thomas Whatman, the Eecorder, were afterwards married and had issue, it might be concluded that the male line of the said Thomas Whatman ended with them. But assuming that they were afterwards married and had issue, nothing is adduced to support in any way Avhatever, the assertion that James Whatman, of Loose, county Kent, Tanner, who died in 1725, was descended from either of tliem. As to who the Father or Grandfather of this James Whatman was, the pedigree in the ‘ Landed Gentry ’ is silent. The leap from the Eecorder of Chichester to the Tanner of Loose you may have made for the sake of brevity, though not much room would have been occupied in giving the details of the descent ; seeing that James Whatman of