William Hewett (Lord Mayor)
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Sir William Hewett was a prominent merchant of Tudor London, a founding member and later Master of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers of London as incorporated in 1528, and the first of that Compa
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Brass (1539) to Nicholas Leveson (d. 1539) and wife Dionysia (d. 1560): St Andrew Undershaft.
Page from the prayerbook of Lady Jane Grey (Harley MS 2342)
Thomas Offley
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Sir Thomas Offley was a Sheriff of London and Lord Mayor of London during the reign of Queen Mary I of England. A long-serving alderman of London, he was a prominent member of the Worshipful Company o
William Hewett (Lord Mayor)
…numerous sons and daughters, of whom Alice was the third, unmarried at the time of her father's death. James Leveson had married Margery, full sister of Thomas Offley, around 1530. The wealth and reputation of the Leveson mercantile operation, linked to their Kentish estates around the River Medway, continued in…
Monument to Sir Thomas and Dame Joan Offley in the church of St Andrew Undershaft, 1582.