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Welcome to the Scott Family Page, which furnishes historical detail beyond the site index, exploring eight generations of Scotts in the line of Sir William Scott of Brabourne, Kent, England.
 

 

15. Lady Mary Scott --  Mary was born in 1546 at Scott's Hall, near Ashford, Kent, England and died in Maidstone, Kent, England on  Feb.11, 1605. She was buried in East Sutton, next to Sir Richard II Argall, Lord of East Sutton, High Sheriff of Kent, her first husband. Her parents were Sir Reginald Scott, and his wife, Mary Tuke, prominent members of the English gentry-class aristocracy in Tudor times. Mary's pedigree has been traced back to William, the Conqueror and to Charlemagne (however the evidentiary support for her ancestral line becomes much weaker about nine generations back). Mary married childless widower Richard Argall, Esquire in 1568 at Boughton Malherb, Kent, England. Sir Richard was the 2nd Lord Of East Sutton and the author of a book entitled "The Accendens Of Armoury." After Sir Richard died in 1588 Mary married Lawrence Washington, Esq., of Jordans Hall, Maidstone. Richard and Mary (Scott) Argall had the following 11 children:

  1. Elizabeth Argall, married Edward Filmer

  2. Thomas Argall (1572-1605)

  3. Sir Reginald Argall (1574-1611)

  4. Richard Argall (1576-1614)

  5. Samuel Argall (b.1580)

  6. John Argall

  7. Catherine Argall (1581-1625)

  8. Jane Argall (1579-1645)

  9. Sarah Argall (b.1583)

  10. Margaret Argall (1571-1609)

  11. Mary Argall (1572-1617)

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16. Sir Reginald Scott--Reginald (also called Reynold Scott is some documents) was born ca. 1512 in Scott's Hall, Smeeth, Kent, England and died Dec. 16, 1554 in Kent, England. Reginald’s parents were Sir John Scott and Anne Pympe, daughter and heiress of Reynold Pympe, Esquire and Elizabeth Pashley, daughter of John Pashley and Lowys (or Ludovice) Gower.  Sir Reginald became the Sheriff of Kent in 1541–42 and Captain of Calais and Sandgate. He first married Emeline Kemp (before 1537)  the daughter of Sir William Kempe of Olantigh, Kent, band Eleanor Browne, the daughter of Sir Robert Browne, and had three children: Sir Thomas Scott (1535–1594), Katherine Scott, who married John Baker, and Anne Scott, who married Walter Mayney. After Emeline's death sometime before 1542 , Sir Reginald Scott married  Mary Tuke (1512-1555), who was the mother of Mary Scott, and the daughter of Brian Tuke and Grissell Boughton, daughter of Nicholas Boughton of Woolwich. Sir Reginald and Mary Tuke had the following nine children:
 

  1. Bryan  (b: 1542)

  2. George (b: 1545)

  3. Mary (b: 1546); married Richard Argall

  4. William  (b: 1547)

  5. Ursula  (b: 1547)

  6. Charles  (b: 1548)

  7. Catherine  (b: 1550)

  8. Margaret  (b: 1553)

  9. Eliza  (b: 1554)


17. Sir John Scott -- Sir John Scott was born in 1480 in Kent, England and died Oct.7, 1533 in Aldington, Ashford Borough, Kent, England. He  was the eldest son of Sir William Scott and Lady Sibyl Lewknor. Sometime before 1506, Sir John married Anne Pympe (1484-1554), daughter and heiress of Reynold Pympe, esquire, of Pympe's Court, Nettlestead, Kent, England, and Elizabeth Pashley, the daughter of John Pashley, esquire. Sir John served in King Henry VIII's campaigns in France, and was active in local government in Kent and a Member of Parliament for New Romney. According to biographical information from Geni.com: "As a young man Scott was knighted by the future Emperor Charles V in 1511 while serving as a senior captain, under his relative Sir Edward Poynings, with the English forces sent by King Henry VIII to aid Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Low Countries, against Charles II, Duke of Guelders. According to MacMahon Henry VIII 'transmuted the honour into a knighthood of the body'. In 1512 he was elected Member of Parliament for New Romney. Scott may have participated in the French campaigns of 1512 and 1513; he was among the forces being marshaled at Calais in 1514 when negotiations for peace between England and France brought the war to a temporary halt. In 1514 and 1515 he was a commissioner for the subsidy in Sussex. In June 1520 he attended Henry VIII at the Field of Cloth of Gold. In 1522 he was in the service of George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny, Constable of Dover Castle, and was placed in charge of transport when the Emperor Charles V landed at Dover on 28 May 1522. In 1523 Scott was with the English forces which invaded northern France under the Duke of Suffolk. In 1523 and 1524 he was a commissioner for the subsidy in Kent. He was Sheriff of Kent in 1527 and 1528, and a Justice of the Peace in that county from 1531 until his death. In May 1533 Scott was summoned to be a servitor at the coronation of Anne Boleyn." He died five months later at the age of 53.
 

Sir John Scott and Anne Pympe had at least 7 children:

  • William Scott, who died in 1536 without issue.

  • Sir Reginald (or Reynold) Scott (1512–15 December 1554).

  • Sir John Scott.

  • Richard Scott, esquire (1504-1567; father of Sir Reginald Scott (ca.1538- 1599; husband of Mary Whetenall, and author of The Discoverie of Witchcraft).

  • George Scott.

  • Mildred Scott, who married firstly, John Digges, esquire, and secondly, Richard Keyes, gentleman.

  • Katherine Scott, who married Sir Henry Crispe.


Note on Sir Reginald Scott (ca.1538- 1599), noted author and grandson of Sir John and Anne Scott:

Sir Reginald was an Oxford graduate, a Member of Parliament, and the author of several published works including the first practical treatise on hop culture in England (1574), and The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), a work which was written with the aim of preventing the persecution of poor, aged and feeble-minded persons who were popularly believed to be witches. Scott had studied the superstitions respecting witchcraft in courts of law in country districts, where the prosecution of witches was unceasing, and in village life, where the belief in witchcraft flourished in an endless number of fantastic forms. With remarkable boldness and an insight that was far in advance of his age, he set himself to prove that the belief in witchcraft and magic was rejected alike by reason and religion, and that spiritualistic manifestations were wilful impostures or illusions due to mental disturbance in the observers. He wrote with the philanthropic aim of staying the cruel persecution which habitually pursued poor, aged, and simple persons, who were popularly credited with being witches. The maintenance of the superstition he laid to a large extent at the door of the Roman catholic church, and he assailed with much venom credulous writers like Jean Bodin (1530-1596), author of 'Demonomie des Sorciers' (Paris, 1580), and Jacobus Sprenger, joint-author of 'Malleus Maleficarum' (Nuremberg, 1494). Of Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) and John Wier (1515-1588), author of 'De Praestigiis Demonum' (Basle, 1566), whose liberal views he adopted, he invariably spoke with respect. Scot performed his task so thoroughly that his volume became an exhaustive encyclopaedia of contemporary beliefs about witchcraft, spirits, alchemy, magic, and legerdemain. Shakespeare drew from his study of Scott's book hints for his picture of the witches in 'Macbeth,' and that Middleton in his play of the 'Witch' was equally indebted to the same source.
 

18. Sir William Scott -- Sir William Scott  was born ca.1445 (or 1459)  in Scotts Hall, Brabourne, Kent, England and died on Aug.24, 1524 in Brabourne, Kent, England. His parents were Sir John Scott and  Anne Beaufitz. He married Sibyl Lewknor (1471-1529), the daughter of Sir Thomas Lewknor of Trotton, Sussex and had at least six children: John, William, Edward, Anne (who married Sir Edward Boughton), Katherine; and Elizabeth. Sir William was the Comptroller of the Household to King Henry VII and held the offices of Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports. Sir William was concerned in the siege of Bodiam Castle in 1483–4, for which and other delinquencies he received a pardon on the accession of Henry VII. Rising in favour with that monarch, he was sworn of the privy council, appointed comptroller of the household, and created C.B. with Prince Arthur on 29 Nov. 1489. He was also lieutenant of Dover Castle, warden of the Cinque ports, and marshal of Calais in 1490–1, sheriff of Kent the same year, in 1501 and 1516. In 1519 Sir William attended Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and figured among the grandees deputed with Wolsey to receive the Emperor Charles V on his landing at Dover on May 28, 1522. He rebuilt Scot's Hall in a style of such splendour as to make it long the rival of the greatest of the houses of Kent. Upin his death in 1524, he was buried in the chancel of Brabourne church.

 
19. Sir John Scott -- Sir John Scott was born  ca. 1423 in Scotts Hall, Smeeth, Kent, England and

died on Oct.17, 1485 in Brabourne, Kent, England. His parents were Sir William Scott and Isabella Herbert. He married Agnes Beaufitz (d.1486), daughter and co-heiress of William Beaufitz of The Grange, Gillingham, Kent with whom he had four children: Margaret, William, Elizabeth and George. The following biography is given on Wikitree.com: Sir John Scott was a Kent landowner, and committed supporter of the House of York. Among other offices, he served as Comptroller of the Household to Edward IV, and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Sir John was appointed to commissions in Kent from 1450 onwards, and with Sir John Fogge and Robert Horn expended in excess of £333 in the suppression of Jack Cade's uprising in that year. By 1456 he was an esquire to Henry VI. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in Kent in 1458, an office he held until his death, and was Sheriff of Kent in 1460. The 'turning point' in Scott's career, according to Fleming, 'came in June 1460, when, with Fogge and Horn, he gave support to the Yorkist earls that proved crucial to their success in Kent'. Within a year of the accession of Edward IV, Scott was rewarded with annuities, a knighthood, the office of tronage and pesage in the port of London, and appointments as joint Chirographer of the Common Pleas, deputy butler of Sandwich, lieutenant of Dover under Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, 'the Kingmaker', and Comptroller of the Household. In 1462, as a result of the attainders of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, and Thomas, 9th Baron Ros of Helmsley (d.1464), he was granted custody of Oxford's lands, as well as the reversion of lands which were the jointure of Baron Ros's widow, Margery, including the castle and manor of Chilham and the manors of Wilderton and Molash. In 1463 he was granted the manors of Old Swinford and Snodsbury in Worcestershire, in the hands of the crown by the attainder of the Earl of Wiltshire, and was among those entrusted with supervision of all 'wardships, marriages, and ecclesiastical temporalities' which had fallen to the crown. In 1466 he purchased the marriage of Sir Edward Poynings, son and heir of Sir Robert Poynings (d.1461), and in the following year was granted custody of Sir Robert Poynings' lands in Kent. He also served as Chamberlain to Edward, Prince of Wales, and was a Member of Parliament for Kent in 1467. In September 1467 he assisted in negotiations for the marriage of Edward IV's sister, Margaret of York, to Charles the Bold, and accompanied Margaret to her wedding in Burgundy in the following year. In November 1467 he negotiated a commercial treaty with Burgundy at Brussels, and from May 1469 to February 1470 was involved in commercial negotiations with the Hanseatic League in Flanders. In April 1471 he succeeded Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, as lieutenant of the Cinque Ports, and by March 1472 was Marshal of Calais. In 1473 and 1474 he travelled to Burgundy, Utrecht and Bruges on diplomatic missions. It seems likely that he went into exile during the readeption, but returned to England to fight at the Battle of Barnet in April 1471, and assist in the suppression of Fauconberg's rebellion in May of that year. In February 1473 he and others were appointed tutors to Edward IV's son, the Prince of Wales. After Edward IV's death, he was loyal to Richard III, 'at least until the end of 1484'. He died in 1485, and was buried, by his instructions, in the north wall of the chancel of St. Mary's church, Brabourne.

20. Sir William Scott -- Sir William Scott  was born ca. 1384 in Brabourne, Kent, England and died there on Feb. 5, 1433. His parents were Sir John Scott and the "heiress of Cumbe manor." Sometime before 1409 he married his first wife, Joan de Orlasone, daughter of Sir John de Orlestone (d. 1397), and by purchase or inheritance he acquired the manor and church of Orlestone, which had belonged to her family. He presented to the church in 1426,1430, and 1433. He is believed to have built on the manor of Hall the mansion-house afterwards known as Scot's Hall. To him also was probably due the reconstruction in the Perpendicular style of the chapel of the Holy Trinity to the south of the chancel in Brabourne church, at the entrance of which he directed that he should be buried.  His second wife was Isabella Herbert, youngest daughter of Vincent Herbert, alias Finch, of Netherfield, Sussex (ancestor of the earls of Winchilsea). After Sir William's death in 1433, Isabella survived him and remarried Sir Gervase Clifton, treasurer of the household to Henry VI, who resided at Brabourne. By his second wife William Scott had two children, John, and William (d. 1491). The latter was lord of the manor of Woolstan, and founder of the family of Scott of Chigwell, Essex.

 

21. Sir John Scott -- Sir John Scott was born before 1384 in Brabourne, Kent, England and died there ca.1413. The name of his wife, born in 1356, is unknown. She is described as the "heiress of Cumbe manor." Sir John's parents are thought to be Sir William "of Bradbourne" Scott (born before 1361) and Marcella or "Matilda" (ca 1365-1433) but this is uncertain.

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