a piece of arrogance which gave offence to other scholars, ‘in comparison with whom,’ says Fuller, ‘he was but a crackling thorn.’ A warfare of epigrams ensued between him and William Horman [q. v.], supported by Lily and Aldrich, the intricacies of which have been unravelled with much ingenuity by Dr. Maitland (Early Printed Books, p. 415). The sobriquet of ‘Boss’ was bestowed on Whittington by his foes, in derisive allusion to a public ‘boss’ or water-tap in the city of London which had been originally set up by Richard Whittington [q. v.], and was called by his name. Whytynton is said by Bale to have been alive in 1530; but beyond that all is uncertain. His grammatical treatises, along with those of his old master, Stanbridge, had a wide circulation (Day-Book of John Dorne, vol. i. of the Oxford Hist. Society's publications, p. 75). He describes one of them as ‘iuxta consuetudinem ludi literarii diui Pauli.’ Several of these are of great value for illustrating the language and manners of the time. The chief of them are the following: 1. ‘Editio Secunda de consinitate [concinnitate] grammatices,’ Wynkyn de Worde, 1512, 4to (Bodl. Libr), 1516, 4to. 2. ‘De syllabarum quantitate,’ London, 1519, 4to (Hazlitt mentions an edition of 1513). 3. ‘Whytthyntoni editio: Declinationes nominum tam latinorum quam grecorum,’ London, 1517, 4to (Bodl. Libr.). 4. ‘Opusculum affabrum et recognitum … de nominum generibus,’ London, s.a. 4to. 5. ‘Editio de Heteroclitis nominibus et gradibus comparationis,’ Oxford, 1518, 4to (Bodl. Libr.); London, 1533, 4to. 6. ‘Accidentia ex Stanbrigiana editione’ together with ‘Parvula,’ London, 1528, 4to. 7. ‘Vulgaria quedam cum suis vernaculis,’ &c., London, 1521, 1525, 4to. Besides these he wrote ‘De difficultate iustitiæ servandæ in reip. administratione,’ along with ‘De quatuor uirtutibus cardineis,’ both addressed to Wolsey, London, 1519, 4to. The presentation copies, in manuscript, are in the Bodleian Library. Whytynton was also the author of the following translations: ‘The thre bookes of Tullyes Offyces bothe in latyne tonge & in englysshe,’ London, 1534, 8vo. ‘Tullius de Senectute bothe in latyn and englysshe tonge,’ London, s.a. (1535?), 8vo. ‘The Paradox of M. T. Cicero,’ London, 1540, 16mo. ‘A frutefull work of Lucius Anneus Seneca, named the forme and rule of honest lyuynge,’ London, 1546, 4to. ‘A frutefull worke of … Seneca, called the Myrrour or Glasse of Maners …’ London, 1547, 8vo. ‘Lucii Annei Senecæ ad Gallionem. … The remedyes agaynst all casuall chaunces,’ London, 1547, 8vo. ‘De civilitate morum … per Des. Erasmum … Roberto Whitintoni [sic] interprete,’ London, 1554, 8vo. An earlier edition of this last is said to have appeared in 1532 (Bibliotheca Erasmiana, 1893, p. 29).
[Editions of Whytynton's Works in Brit. Mus. and Bodleian Libraries; Wood's Athenæ and Hist. et Antiq. ii. 4, 5; Warton's English Poetry, sect. xxv.; Boase's Register of the Univ. of Oxford, 1885, i. 85; Foster's Alumni Oxon.; W. Carew Hazlitt's Schools, Schoolbooks, &c., 1888, pp. 60–8; Brüggemann's View of the English Editions, 1797, pp. 500, 651.]
WHITTLE, PETER ARMSTRONG (1789–1866), Lancashire antiquary, was born at Inglewhite in the parish of Goosnargh, Lancashire, on 9 July 1789, and was educated at the grammar schools of Goosnargh, Walton-le-Dale, and Preston. He began business as a bookseller and printer at Preston in 1810, and became an active contributor to various journals. He was intelligent but ill-educated, and his works, though not without value, abound in errors. He styled himself F.S.A., but was not a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. In 1858 Lord Derby, as prime minister, gave him a pension of 50l. a year for ‘literary services.’ After giving up business in 1851, he lived at Bolton for some years, and then removed to Mount Vernon, Liverpool. Whittle, who was a Roman catholic, died on 7 Jan. 1866. He married, in October 1827, Matilda Henrietta Armstrong, and had two sons: Robert Claudius, author of ‘The Wayfarer in Lancashire,’ and Henry Armstrong.
He was the author of the following local histories: 1. ‘A Topographical Account, &c., of Preston,’ 1821; vol. ii. 1837, 12mo (the first volume was published under the pseudonym of ‘Marmaduke Tulket’). 2. ‘Marina; or an Historical and Descriptive Account of Southport, Lytham, and Blackpool,’ Preston, 1831, 8vo (anon.). 3. ‘Architectural Description of St. Ignatius's Church, Preston,’ 1833. 4. ‘Description of St. Mary's Cistercian Church at Penwortham,’ 8vo. 5. ‘Historical Notices of Hoghton Tower,’ 1845. 6. ‘An Account of St. Marie's Chapel at Fernyhalgh,’ 1851, 8vo. 7. ‘Blackburn as it is,’ 1852. 8. ‘Bolton-le-Moors and the Townships in the Parish,’ Bolton, 1855, 8vo.
[Whittle's Preston, ii. 336; Men of the Time, 1865, p. 825; Johnstone's Religious Hist. of Bolton, p. 177; Fishwick's Lancashire Library.]
WHITTLESEY or WITTLESEY, WILLIAM (d. 1374), archbishop of Canterbury, though doubtless a native of the Cambridgeshire village whose name he bore, studied at Oxford, where he took his doctor's
