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Sir William Scott of Scot's Hall in Smeeth, Kent (1459 – 24 August 1524) was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
William Scott was the son of Sir John Scott and Agnes Beaufitz, daughter and co-heiress of William Beaufitz. His sister, Elizabeth Scott (d. 15 August 1528), married Sir Edward Poynings.[1][2]
Scott rose to favour following the seizure of the throne by Henry VII. Within a few years he had been appointed to the Privy Council, appointed Comptroller of the Household and in 1489 was created a Companion of the Bath at the same ceremony as Prince Arthur. He served as High Sheriff of Kent in 1491, 1501 and 1516, and was also to become Constable of Dover Castle, Marshal of Calais (1490-1) and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (1492–1493). He remained in favour under Henry VIII, being present at the famous meeting at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 and one of the deputation sent to greet Emperor Charles V when he landed at Dover in 1522.
Scott inherited the manor of Brabourne in 1495, and had Scot's Hall elaborately rebuilt so that it came to be regarded as one of the foremost houses in Kent.[citation needed]
He was buried at Brabourne, where there is a memorial brass to him in the Scott chapel in St Mary's church.[3]
https://archive.org/stream/memorialsoffamil00scot#page/n343/mode/2u...
Scott married Sibyl Lewknor, the daughter of Sir Thomas Lewknor (d. 20 July 1484) of Trotton, Sussex, and Katherine Pelham (d.1481), widow of John Bramshott (d.1468), and daughter of Sir John Pelham, Chamberlain to Katherine of Valois,[1][4][5] by whom he had two sons and three daughters:[6][7]
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Scott_of_Scott's_Hall
https://archive.org/stream/memorialsoffamil00scot#page/152/mode/2up...
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Sybilla Lewknor's Pedigree https://archive.org/stream/memorialsoffamil00scot#page/144/mode/2up...
SIR WILLIAM SCOTT (1459-1524) of Brabourne 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, and 1501 and 1516. In1495 he succeeded to the manor of Brabourne on the death, without issue,of Joan, widow of Sir John Lewknor (killed at Tewkesbury 1471). The property came to her from her father Richard, son of John Halsham, and,by a settlement of 1464, was limited to John Scott and his heirs, failing Joan Lewknor's issue. John Scott's relationship to the Halshams andLewknors is not established. 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 on28 May 1522. Scot's Hall he rebuilt in a style of such splendour as to make it long the rival of the greatest of the houses of Kent. He died on24 Aug. 1524, and was buried in the chancel of Brabourne church. By his wife Sybil (d. 1527) he left issue. A younger son, Edward (d. 1535),married Alice, daughter of Thomas Fogge, serjeant porter of Calais, and founded the family of Scott of the Mote, Iden, Sussex. [Life Sketch of Sir William Scott & Selected Descendants, www.burgoyne.com] 1 2
Sources: 1.Title: Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com Page: Adrian Channing, 18 Nov 1998 2.Title: Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, by David Faris, 2nd Edition 1999, NEHGS Page: 150
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Scott's Hall, Smeeth, East Ashford, Kent, England (United Kingdom)
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Scotts Hall, Smeeth, Kent, England
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Abt. 1495 Scott Hall, Co. Kent, England
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Scott's Hall, Smeeth, East Ashford, Kent, England (United Kingdom)
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UK
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UK
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Somerset, England
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August 24, 1524
Age 65
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Brabourne, East Ashford, Kent, England (United Kingdom)
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