Katherine (Smythe) Scott (1561 - 1617)

Born 1561 in City of London, England

Ancestors

Wife of Rowland Hayward — married about 1578 in London, England [uncertain]

Wife of John Scott — married about 1599 in London, England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 1617 at about age 56 in Nettlestead, Kent, England

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Biography

Katherine Smythe was the 4th daughter of Thomas (Customer) Smythe and Alice Judde.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

She was baptised 'Katherine Smith' on 06 Dec 1561 at All Hallows Lombard Street, City of London.^[7] No parents names were recorded with the baptism but it is one of a series of baptisms at All Hallows Lombard Street that align with the sequence of children of Thomas and Alice Smythe.

Marriages

Katherine married first Sir Rowland Hayward, Clothworker of London.^[1][4][6][8] The date and place of the marriage are unknown. She was said to have been a 'grave matron of 16 years' when she married Sir Rowland Hayward^[9], suggesting a marriage in 1578.

In the will of her father, the will made on 22 May 1591 and proved on 29 October 1591^[10] she was noted as the wife of Sir Rowland 'Heyward'. Her father bequeathed £250 to the children (not named) of Katherine and Sir Rowland, the sum to be equally divided between them.

Katherine was a beneficiary of the will of her mother Alice, the will made on 10 Jul 1592.^[11] The will referred to her husband Sir Rowland Hayward and their children: sons George and John, and daughters Alice, Katherine, Mary and Anne.

She was a beneficiary of the will of her first husband Sir Rowland Hayward, the will dated 17 November 1592 and proved 4 March 1594^[12] and noted on the monument to Sir Rowland Hayward at St Alphage, City of London.^[13][14]

In 1597 Katherine, recorded as Lady Hawarde, was granted a legacy of £50, following the death of her youngest brother Simon Smythe.^[15]

Katherine married second Sir John Scott of Scot's Hall, Smeeth, Kent, and Nettlestead, Kent.^{[16][17][18][19]} The date and place of the marriage are unknown.

In the will of her brother Roberte Smithe, gentleman of London, the will made on 01 Dec 1600 and proved on 28 Jan 1600/1601, she was recorded as Lady Scott.^[20]

She was also a beneficiary of the will of her second husband Sir John Scott, the will made on 18 Sep 1616 and proved 17 Jan 1617/1618. The will noted that the estate at Nettlested, Kent, had already been conveyed to Katherine.^[21][17]

In the will of her brother Sir Thomas Smythe, the will made in Jan 1621/1622 and proved in 1625^[22], she was recorded as being deceased.

Children

Children by Sir Rowland Hayward:

• an eldest son, name unknown (presumably died as a child, buried at St Alphage London Wall)^[23]
• a second son, name unknown (presumably died as a child, buried at St Alphage London Wall)^[23]
• [Sir] George Hayward (born c 1587)^[6][9]
• [Sir] John Hayward^[24]
• Alice Hayward (married Sir Richard Buller)^[25][26][27]
• Katherine Hayward (married Richard Scott then Richard Sondes of Throwley, Kent)^[18][28]
• Mary Hayward (married Warham St Leger)^[29]
• Anne Hayward (married Edward Crayford)^[30]

Katherine and her surviving children with Sir Rowland Hayward were recorded in the Stemmata Chicheleana, a pedigree of the Chichele family, her Chichele Ancestry being derived from her great great grandmother Philippa Chichele.^[6]

There were no children of her marriage with Sir John Scott.

The Ketel Portrait

Around 1579 Katherine's father Thomas (Customer) Smythe commissioned Cornelis Ketel to paint head and shoulders portraits of himself, his wife and children.^[31][32][33]

In the will of Katherine's sister in law Sarah the Dowager Countess of Leicester, the will made on 02 Feb 1655/1656 and proved on 13 Mar 1655/1656^[34] the Testatrix made a bequest as follows:

"I doe give and bequeath unto my nephew John Smith of Highgate in the Countie of Middlesex Esquire fourteene pictures … Customer Smith and his wife and of their sixe sonnes and sixe daughters"

A number of these paintings were later in the possession of the descendants of the Viscounts of Strangford and were purchased in 2016 by the Company of Skinners in London. However, the painting of Katherine was absent from the collection. The portrait has (of 2022) been located.

A portrait which may be of Lady Katherine (Smythe) Scott is held at the North Carolina Museum of Art.^[35][36]

Arms

Arms of Sir John Scott and Katherine (Smythe) Scott - Detail from an illuminated pedigree commissioned by Sir John Scott.^[37]

Arms of Sir John Scott and Katherine (Smythe) Scott

The quarterings for Smythe (right hand side) are:

Smythe, Judde, Chiche

Chicheley, Apulderferld, Averinge [Averenches]

Kyriell [Crioll], Crevequer, and Morfen [Murfyn/Mirfine].

See also: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Arms_of_Smythe_of_Wiltshire_and_Kent

Death and Monument

There is a monument to Lady Katherine Scott in the church of St Mary's Nettlestead, Kent.

Monument to Lady Katherine (Smythe) Scott

JR Scott noted that "a white marble monument, surmounted by the arms of Hayward and Scott impaled with Smythe, still exists in a state of good preservation on the east wall of the chancel".^[17] The monument was restored in 2012.

The inscriptions are:^[38]

Tablet above the figure:

"Here lyeth ye bodye of Katherine daughter of Thomas Smith of London Esquire she was ye wife of two noble gentlemen Sr Rowlad Hayward Sr John Scott Knightes with whom she lived successivelye a virteous & religeous life then dyed a widowe the 56 yeare of her age being after our redemption 1616"

Tablet below the figure:

"Let none suppose, this Relique of the just

Was here wrapt up, to perish in the Dust

Shee like best fruicts, a tymely season stood,

Then (being growne in FAITH, & ripe in GOOD)

With stedfast hope, that shee another day,

should rise in CHRIST; in DEATH here downe she lay

But that each part, wch her in life had grac’t

Might safe be kept and meet againe at last

The WORLD, ye POOR, ye HEAVENS & this GRAVE

Her PRAISE, her ALMES, her SOUL, & BODY have"

Placed behind the figure of Katherine is the figure of a child. The will of Katherine Scott indicates that her monument should also commemorate the child, Thomas Scott, son of Richard. As Richard Scott married Katherine's daughter, Katherine Hayward, then presumably the figure depicts Thomas Scott, grandson of Katherine (Smythe) Scott.

Summary of the will of Katherine Scott 1617

In her will made on 11 Jan 1616/1617 and proved 12 Mar 1616/1617 she was recorded as Katherine Scott of Nettlestead, Kent, late wife of Sr John Scott.^[23]

She gave clear instruction that she wished to be buried at Nettlestead, also, who should attend her funeral, and that a monument should be erected for her and for the child Thomas Scott, son of Richard.

She made reference to her brothers Sir Thomas Smith and Sir Richard Smith, her four sisters (not named), and Sir Arthur Harris the son of her sister Harris (deceased).

She made charitable bequests to ten poor women of St Alphage in London “where my first husband and two eldest sonnes weare buried”, to the poor of Nettlestead and the poor of All Hallows Lombard Street in the City of London.

She made bequests to a number of people including: “the honourable Lord Knevett and his Lady my kind daughter in law”; “the honourable the Lady de la Spencer and her two sonnes wives my very good neighbours”; “the lady Thomas Smith my ould associate and good sister”; “Sir Norton Knatchbull and his lady my very lovinge friends”; Sir Thomas Butler and Mr Thomas Fanshaw her godsons; Mr Thomas Smith of Ostlehanger [Ostenhanger, Kent]; her ‘brothers’ Mr Edward and Mr Robert Scott and their wives; her nieces Lady Hatten and Lady Thornell; her cousin Mr Auditor Kinge and his wife; Captaine Brett; Mr Clarke and his wife; her cousins Christian Thinne and Hawden; Ms Scott of Seere ; Mr George Rooke of Norton and his mother; her nephew Bromly, her nephew Anthony Sellenger [St Leger]; Mr Bishop of Cheriton; Captaine Dorrell the musterman of Kent; and her ‘sister’ Culpepper.

Of the £500 she was bequeathed by her late husband she in turn bequeathed £100 to each of her four daughters and the remainder for the discharge of her other legacies. She also made bequests of various household items to her four daughters namely: Lady Bullar; Lady Sonds; Lady Sellenger [St Leger]; and Crayford. She mentioned her cousin Rake who attended upon her.

She made bequests to her four eldest grandchildren: Katherine Bullar, Elizabeth Scott, Anthony Sellenger [St Leger] and William Crayford; and to her godchildren Katherine Sellenger [St Leger] and George Crayford.

As Elizabeth Scott [her granddaughter] was fatherless and her daughter Crayford was a widow, she requested that her son, Sir John Hayward, shall “professe and expresse (as occasion shalbe given) continuall Christian curtesey and kindness to them and theirs”.

Sir John Hayward was appointed sole Executor.

Memorial Service 2016

A memorial service to celebrate the lives of Sir John Scott and Lady Katherine (Smythe) Scott (on the 400th anniversary of their deaths) was held at St Mary's Nettlestead, Kent, on 25 Sep 2016, with the Rt Revd James Langstaff, Lord Bishop of Rochester.^[39]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The Visitation of Kent. Taken in the Years 1619-1621. The Publications of the Harleian Society Vol XLII. Edited by Robert Hovenden, 1898. Smith Pedigree pp 113-114 Internet Archive.
2. ↑ Visitation of London 1568. Publications of the Harleian Society. Edited by Howard and Armytage. 1869. Smythe Pedigree p 69 Internet Archive.
3. ↑ Visitation of London, 1568: With Additional Pedigrees, 1569-90, the Arms of the City Companies, and a London Subsidy Roll, 1589. Publications of the Harleian Society. Vols 109-110. London H S and Rawlins S W. 1963. Smyth Pedigree pp 17-18.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Stocker, J J. Pedigrees of Smythes of Ostenhangar; Kent; of Smythes of Bidborough and Sutton-at-Hone; and of the Smythes of Viscount Strangford, of Dromore, Ireland. Archæologia Cantiana, being Transactions of the Kent Archæological Society. Vol. XX, 1893, pp 76-81 pdf.
5. ↑ Wadmore, J F. Thomas Smythe, of Westenhanger, Commonly Called Customer Smythe. Archæologia Cantiana, being Transactions of the Kent Archæological Society, vol. XVII, 1887, pp 193-208 pdf.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} Buckler, Benjamin. Stemmata Chicheleana. Oxford Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1765. See No. 1 and No. 4 Internet Archive.
7. ↑ All Hallows Lombard Street, City of London. Register. Accessed via Ancestry.
8. ↑ Hayward, Sir Rowland (c.1520-93), of Elsinge Spital, London, King's Place, Hackney, Mdx. and Cound, Salop. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981 HOP.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Jay, W. Sir Rowland Hayward. Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, New Series Vol VI, 1929, pp 509-527.
10. ↑ Will of Thomas Smythe of London. 29 Oct 1591. PROB 11/78/226. The National Archives, Kew.
11. ↑ Will of Alice Smythe, Widow of London. 11 May 1598. PROB 11/91/377. The National Archives, Kew.
12. ↑ Will of Sir Rowland Hayward 1594. Transcript by Nina Green, 2014 pdf.
13. ↑ The Survey of London: Contayning The Originall, Increase, Moderne Estate, and Government of that City, Methodically Set Down. By John Stow. 1633, p 305 Google Books.
14. ↑ Seymour, R. The History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent. Vol. I, 1733, p 581 HathiTrust.
15. ↑ Summary of receipts and payments made by the unnamed brother of Simon Smith, deceased, acting as executor. Jul 1597. E 192/1/4. The National Archives, Kew.
16. ↑ The Visitation of Kent. Taken in the Years 1619-1621. The Publications of the Harleian Society Vol XLII. Edited by Robert Hovenden 1898. Scott Pedigree pp 127-129 Internet Archive.
17. ↑ ^{17.0 17.1 17.2} Scott, J R. Memorials of the family of Scott, of Scot's Hall in the County of Kent. London, 1876 Internet Archive.
18. ↑ ^{18.0 18.1} Familiae Minorum Gentium. Vol IV. J W Clay (Ed.). Publications of the Harleian Society. Vol. XL, 1896. Scott Pedigree pp 1301-1303 Internet Archive.
19. ↑ Scott, Sir John (c.1564-1616), of Nettlestead and Scot's Hall, Smeeth, Kent and Philip Lane, St. Alphege, London. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010. HOP.
20. ↑ Will of Robert Smithe, Gentleman of London. 1601. PROB 11/97/37. The National Archives, Kew.
21. ↑ Will of Sir John Scott of Smeeth, Kent. 17 January 1618. PROB 11/131/34. The National Archives, Kew.
22. ↑ Will of Sir Thomas Smithe of London. 1625. PROB 11/147/84. The National Archives, Kew.
23. ↑ ^{23.0 23.1 23.2} Will of Katherine Scott, late Wife of Nettlestead, Kent. 12 March 1617. PROB 11/129/289. The National Archives, Kew.
24. ↑ Hayward, Sir John (c.1591-1636), of Acton Burnell, Salop; later of Hollingbourne and Rochester, Kent. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010 HOP.
25. ↑ Visitation of Cornwall 1620. Vivian J L and Drake H H (Eds). Publications of the Harleian Society, Vol IX, 1874, pp 24-25 Buller Pedigree Internet Archive.
26. ↑ Buller, Sir Richard (c.1578-1642), of Shillingham, Cornw. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010 HOP.
27. ↑ Richardson D. Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edn. (2011), Volume 1, p 589.
28. ↑ Sondes, Richard (1571-1632), of Throwley, Lees Court and Sheldwich, Kent. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981 HOP.
29. ↑ Richardson D. Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edn. (2011), Vol. III, p128. Google Books.
30. ↑ The Visitation of Kent. Taken in the Years 1619-1621. The Publications of the Harleian Society. Vol XLII. Edited by Robert Hovenden, 1898, p 34 Craford Pedigree Internet Archive.
31. ↑ Hearn K (1995) Dynasties : painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630. Tate Publishing.
32. ↑ Treasures of the Royal Courts. Tudors, Stuarts & the Russian Tsars. Dmitrieva O and Murdoch T (Eds). V&A Publishing, 2013.
33. ↑ A Set of Portraits of the Family of Thomas 'Customer' Smythe by Cornelis Ketel. Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest. Expert's Statement. Arts Council, abt 2015.
34. ↑ Will of Sarah Countess of Leicester, Dowager. 13 Mar 1656. PROB 11/253/638. The National Archives, Kew.
35. ↑ Lady Katherine Scott. North Carolina Museum of Art Link.
36. ↑ Hurt, P. A Scott Family Who's Who. 01 July 2013 (link to North Carolina Museum of Art website now broken).
37. ↑ Heraldry - Scott Family of Kent. Bonhams 26 Jun 2007 Bonhams.
38. ↑ Notes made during visit to St Mary's Nettlestead on 16 Aug 2016.
39. ↑ Memorial Service 25 Sep 2016 at Nettlestead Kent for Sir John Scott and Lady Katherine (Smythe) Scott. Attended by Steve Hunt.

See also:

• Botfield, B. Stemmata Botevilliana: memorials of the families of De Boteville, Thynne and Botfield, in the counties of Salop and Wilts. 1858, p 35 Internet Archive.
• Browning, C H. Americans of Royal Descent: Collection of Genealogies Showing the Lineal Descent from Kings of Some American Families. 1911 Google Books.