Rowland Hayward
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Sir Rowland Hayward was a London slave merchant, and Lord Mayor of the City in both 1570 and 1591. Through his commercial activities he acquired considerable wealth, and was able to loan money to Quee
Ruins of the church of St Alphage London Wall
Tomb of Lord Knyvett in Stanwell Church
Thomas Smythe (customer)
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Thomas Smythe or Smith, of London, Ashford and Westenhanger, Kent was the collector of customs duties in London during the Tudor period, and a member of parliament for five English constituencies succ
Rowland Hayward
…married John Thynne on (probably) 26 February 1576. Hayward married secondly, when she was only sixteen years of age, Katherine Smythe, the daughter of Thomas Smythe, Customer of London, by whom he had a son and a daughter who died as infants, and two surviving sons and four surviving daughters, all young and unmarried…
Thomas 'Customer' Smythe
Portrait of Alice Judde (c. 1532-1593), wife of Thomas Smythe, 1579, Cornelis Ketel
Memorial to Thomas "Customer" Smythe, St Mary's Church, Ashford: "Thomas Smith lies with his wife and 13 children under a canopy of coloured flowers and gold leaves."