Thomas SMYTHE

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Name Prefix: Sir
Sir Thomas Smythe (1558-1625) - The son was therefore the namesake of a very powerful and well connected family. He also must have been quite brilliant. The deeds of both father and son seemed to ge combined but the son did have several notable accomplishments which can be attributed to him. In 1588, he lent ?31,000 to Queen Elizabeth and raised the necessary funds for her to finance the English fleet which would destroy the Spanish Armada.

He was the Governor (Director) of the very successful and famous East India Company which contributed vast revenues to England after 1609. He was a member ofthe Levant Company, organized the Bermuda and Hudson Companies. He incorporated the Turkey Company in 1581, was a member of the Russian Company in 1587, succeeded his father as Master of Customs in 1591, sent exploratory ships to East India.

In 1596, he was knighted for bravery by Lord Essex at Cadiz, and served as sheriff of London from 1600-1601.

Smythe also served with Essex in Ireland in 1599, and was an acknowleded friend of his. This friendship would lead Smythe to the Tower of London with Essex in 1600 because he apparently had pledged to support Essex in London with 1,000 men, but apparently reniged at the last moment. While Essex was beheaded, Smythe was released. Smythe became the Governor of the East India Company at this time, and the new King James I knightedSir Thomas Smythe at the Tower of London in 1603. He was soon appointed to many commissions, was generally recognized as the best business man in England, and made Treasurer of the London Company of Virginia.

Sir Thomas Smythe is buried in St. John the Baptist Church at
Sutton-at-Hone,Kent. It is located aboutone mile east of the M-25 (the
beltway around London). The effigy of Sir Thomas in alabaster exhibits
a family likeness to that of his father (The Customer) in Ashford. As
you enter the church, you see a mound of soil on each side,and according
to the Vicar,contains the remains of plague victims. It is believed by
some that Sir Thomas died of the plague also. Marie Gay



Washington map Society member Douglas McNaughton recently traveled to the
Canadian north in an effort to retrace the last voyage of Henry Hudson and to
reconcile it with a mysterious Dutch chart that appeared immediately after
the return of Hudson's mutineers to England.

By Douglas McNaughton

On September 1611 the bark Discovery sailed in among an English fishing
fleet off the Southwest coast of Ireland like a ghost ship. At first no
fisherman would venture anywhere near the tattered vessel in answer to the
mournful cries of her meager crew. The ship had last been seen in April 1610
when it left England under the command of Henry Hudson, master navigator and
explorer. Twenty-two men, including Hudson and his son John, had left
England. A year later onlysix souls called from the Discovery's deck for
help, and the group did not include Hudson, his son, or any of his
experienced Arctic seamen.
For centuries many thought Hudson made TABVLA NAVTICA, but practically
nothing from Hudson's voyage appears on this map (the first printing appeared
in a 1611 book by Hessel Gerritsz). The Dutch text on the verso states that
the mutiny occurred on the west coast of the (Hudson) bay at around 63
degrees. This location was independently confirmed in 1612 by the voyages of
Captains Button and Ingram, who sailed across the bay with two of the
surviving mutineers. More than 250 years later, English historians began to
create different locations for the mutiny, some seven hundred miles away, as
part of the Victorian mythology about Hudson.
The six survivors claimed to be innocent victims of a bloodless mutiny led by
a hungry passenger who had taken over the ship and forced Hudson into another
boat in the icy Northwest Passage. The survivors said that during the mutiny
they were either asleep or

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• Name: Customer
• Name: Thomas Customer SMYTHE
• Name: Thomas SMYTHE
• Occupation: ; Special Ambassador to the Russian Tsar Boris Godunov
• Reference Number: 57042
• Residence: Hill Hall, Essex
• _UID: E6E3622A39894C0A8D6360DD2B1480429BE4
• Merchant Taylors School Founder: 1551, Manor of the Rose, St Lawrence Pountney Parish, London, London, England

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Name Prefix: Sir
1 NAME Thomas /Smythe/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Smythe
2 SOUR S236

Thomas married Alice JUDD about 1553 in England. Alice (daughter of Andrew JUDDE and Mary MIRFYN) was born on 25 Jun 1535 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England; died before 21 Jun 1593 in London, England; was buried on 21 Jun 1593 in Ashford, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Will proved 11 May 1598: ; Will of Alice Smythe or Smyth, Widow of London
• Will written 10 July 1592: ; Will of Alice Smythe or Smyth, Widow of London
• Name: Alice JUDD
• Name: Alyce JUDDE
• Reference Number: 57043
• _UID: 1529AB57E9D54EA48FF98CAE58FC76B8344C

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See attached sources.

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• Name: John SMITH
• Residence: Shaw House Melksham Wilts
• Occupation: 1538, Corsham, Wiltshire, England; Clothier

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This John Smythe was a clothier, his will was proved 8 October 1538, and he was buried before the will was proved

Not to be confused with Sir John Smythe was High Sheriff of Essex, England, and that is NOT THIS JOHN SMYTHE!!!!!

John married Agnes Joan BROUNKER about 1521 in Wiltshire, England. Agnes (daughter of Robert BROUNKER and Ursula GOULDINGE) was born on 17 Jan 1496 in Melksham, Wiltshire, England; died on 7 Jun 1579 in Corsham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom; was buried on 7 Jun 1579 in Corsham, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Jane BROUNCKER
• Name: Joan BROUKER

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Andrew married Mary MIRFYN. Mary was born about 1503 in Downe, Kent, England; died on 14 Nov 1550 in Tonbridge, Kent, England; was buried in 1550 in Bishopsgate, City of London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Robert married Ursula GOULDINGE. Ursula was born about 1470 in Cavendish, Suffolk, England; died in 1535 in Melksham, Wiltshire, England; was buried in 1535 in England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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