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Summary of the Will of Alice (Judde) Smythe
In her will made on 10 Jul 1592, with a Codicil of 22 May 1593, and proved 11 May 1598, she was recorded as Alice Smythe of London wydowe late wife of Thomas Smith late of London Esquier[8].
The position with her husband’s estate must have been uncertain as she commented “as touchinge the disposicion of that porton which I have I would sett downe some certaintie although not so certenlie as I would yf her Maiesties sute were at an end and with the Executors of my said husband”.
She requested that she be buried in the parish Church of Ashford in Kent by the body of her husband “without any pompe or vayne glory or morninge Apparell other then for such morninge Apparell as I shall hereunder give”. She bequeathed mourning apparel to her sons and daughters, their husbands and wives, and servants.
She then described a number of legacies which were to be those delivered first by her executors. She willed that her executors should purchase land which would generate an income of at least fifteen pounds per annum and that these lands should be conveyed to the Company of Skinners in London. The Skinners were to give ten pounds eight shillings per annum to six Almshouses “in greate St Helins parish [St Helens, Bishopsgate, London] founded by Sir Andrewe Judde my father”; thirty six shillings per annum to three poor women in the parish of All Saints Lomabrd Street [London]; twenty four shillings per annum to two poor women of the parish of St Gabriel Fenchurch [London]; and the remainder to the poor of the Skinners. She bequeathed one hundred pounds each to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, for poor scholars.
Sixty gowns were to be provided to poor women; i.e. twenty gowns to poor women of the parish of All Saints Lombard Street; ten to the parish of St Andrew Undershaft [London]; ten to the parish of St Gabriel Fenchurch; ten to the town of Barns [presumably Barnes, Surrey]; and the remainder to other parishes in London at the discretion of her executors.
There were small bequests to her cousin Constance Glover, Thomas Stubberfield, Frances Jenkins and Mary Gyles; the poor of three parishes in Kent namely, Ashford, Stanford, and Postling; Christs Hospital; St Thomas’ Hospital; Brydewell Hospital; Alice Adison; John Stoddard of Mortlake; Mistress Grace Rosyer; Bridgett Hawkes and her son Thomas Hawkes; her brothers Henry Smythe and Robert Smythe; Suzanna Craunte and her son Thomas Craunte; Mr Churke; Mr Greeneham; Alice Kyte of Kent; Johane Garvie the widow of John Garvie als Gardeners.
With her first legacies completed she then made bequests to her immediately family. The beneficiaries named and their sequence was carefully structured suggesting that her 12 children and 26 grandchildren recorded in the will is likely to represent a comprehensive list of her immediate family living at the time the will was made. The members of the immediate family recorded were her:
son John Smythe, his wife (not named) and their children Alice, Margaret, Catherine and Elizabeth.
son Thomas Smythe.
son Henry Smythe and his wife (not named).
son Richard Smythe and his wife (not named) and their children Thomas and John.
Son Robert Smythe.
Son Simon Smythe.
Daughter [Mary] Davye, her husband Robert Davye, and their children John and Alice.
Daughter [Ursula] Butler, her husband William Butler, and their children Thomas, Oliver, Alice and Catherine.
Daughter [Joan] Fanshawe, her husband Thomas Fanshawe, and their children Thomas, William, Alice and Katherine.
Daughter [Katherine] Hayward, her husband Sir Rowland Hayward, and their children George, John, Alice, Katherine, Mary and Anne.
Daughter [Alice] Harris, her husband William Harris, and their children Thomas, Arthur, Alice and Dorothy.
Daughter Elizabeth Smythe.
There were also bequests to Master Sarjeant Owen [i.e Thomas Owen, Serjeant at Law, the father of Elizabeth Owen wife to the Testator’s son Henry Smythe], Master doctor Smith of Little Wood Street; Andrew Judde; Mistress Fisher; her brother Horsepoole and his wife; her cousin Kinge and his wife; her cousin William Horspoole; her cousins Simon, Thomas, Hawis, Joan and Katherine Horspoole; her sister Martha Goldinge and her two children; her cousin Johane Myller; Mistress Parnell Towerson; John Gathron and his wife; Alice Browne the wife of Henrye Smithe; George Gaywoode and his wife; Mistress Anne Coole; and Bridgett Birde Mistress Rosiers daughter. She also made bequests to a number of servants.
Her sons Thomas, Richard and Robert were appointed Executors. The overseers were named as Sir Rowland Hayward, Master Thomas Fanshawe and Mr Robert Davie.
In a Codicil dated 22 May 1593 she made additional bequests to many of those named above and to some further beneficiaries, namely: her sister Vynor; her cousin Henry Smythe and his brother Richard Smythe; Sir Drewe Drewrye; Mr William Worteley; Mr Richardson; and Thomas Taverner.
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