WHITMORE, (Warwickshire) a woody moorish tract, bet. Coventry and Nuneaton, was anciently a member of Radford, and bel. to
the monks of Coventry, who by licence from Edw. III. made a park here of 436 acres, wood and waste, according to the
measure of those days. After the Diss. it was granted by Edw. VI. to Sir Ralph Sadler, by the name of Whitmore-Grange in
Trinity-p. Coventry. He conveyed it to John Hales, whose nephew built a fine house, here, called New-House, in the R. of
Q. Eliz. but his son sold it to Sir Rich. Burnaby, who passed it to one Cooke, as he did to Sir Christ. Yelverton, who
held it in 1640. But the possessor of the New-House in later times, was Gilbert Clark of Derbyshire, who had it by
marriage of the daughter of Geo. Bohun.