Jeremiah White (chaplain)

[4] In his student years he experienced much mental distress owing to religious difficulties, but ultimately found consolation in the doctrine of universal salvation, which he later proposed and defended in a posthumously published book, The Restoration of All Things.

His position in the household of the Protector brought him into close relationship with his family, and White allowed his ambition to go so far as to aspire to the hand of Cromwell's youngest daughter Frances.

He collected much information with respect to the sufferings of the English dissenters after the Restoration, but refused a thousand guineas from James II for his manuscript, being disinclined to discredit the established church.

He preached occasionally in an independent church in Meeting-house Alley, Queen Street, Lower Rotherhithe, which was built soon after the Restoration.

[6] White was a conspicuous member of the Calves' Head Club at its annual meetings on 30 January, when the ‘Anniversary Anthem’ was sung, and wine in a calf's skull went the round to the memory of "the patriots who had relieved the nation from tyranny".