| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - With his friend John Button*, Whithed expressed his independence by asking to be excused from subscribing to the Forced Loan of 1626-7, of which his father was a commissioner, and instead ???voluntarily tendered??? the sum demanded.22 Probably through Button???s good offices he was admitted to the freedom of Lymington the following year, and returned for the borough at the general election in 1628
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