His Treatise of the Sabbath-Day (1635; 3rd ed. 1636) was dedicated to Laud and written at the command of Charles I. White treated the question doctrinally; its historical aspect was assigned to Peter Heylyn. He visited Cambridge in 1632, to consecrate the chapel of Peterhouse. His last publication was An Examination and Confutation of . . . A Briefe Answer to a late Treatise of the Sabbath-Day, 1637; this Briefe Answer was a dialogue by Richard Byfield, with title The Lord's Day is the Sabbath Day (1636). He died at Ely House, Holborn, in February 1638, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. His will, dated 4 March 1637, proved 27 February 1638 by his widow Joane White, shows that he survived a son, and left married daughters and several grandchildren; the bulk of his property went to his grandson Francis White. Among many, White ordained Ralph Wheelock, Clare College graduate, and first schoolmaster of America's first free school in Dedham, Massachusetts, on 6 May 1630. Theology Francis White had an Arminian theology. In 1626, together with John Cosin they engaged in theological debate with Calvinist John Preston and Thomas Morton. See also List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Norwich, England and its precursor offices Notes and references Citations Sources Attribution 1560s births 1638 deaths 17th-century Church of England bishops Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Arminian ministers Arminian writers Bishops of Carlisle Bishops of Ely Bishops of Norwich Deans of Carlisle Headmasters of Bedford School People from Bedfordshire (before 1965) 16th-century Anglican theologians 17th-century Anglican theologians