Person:Alice Judde (1)

Born circa 1538 (DNB Missing Persons.); "3 children survived from the first marriage, John, Richard, and Alice, who married Thomas Smith, the customs official." Married Thomas SMYTHE circa 1555 (Ibid.). Widow 7 Jun 1591. Before 1603 Bishopsgate ward, London (Stow, Stow's London.); "Alice Smith of London, widow, late wife of Thomas Smith, of the same city, esquire, and customer of the port of London, in her last will and testament, bequeathed lands to the value of 15 pounds by the year for ever, to the company of Skinners, for the augmenting of the pensions of certain poor, inhabiting in eight alms houses, erected by Sir Andrew Jud, knight, her father, in the parish of Great St. Helen's, in Bishopsgate street, in London. She hath also given in her said last will and testament, in other charitable uses, as to the hospitals and to the poor of other parishes and good preachers, the sum of 300 pounds. As also to the poor scholars in the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge the sum of 200 pounds; of which, her last will and testament, she made her sons, Thomas Smith, late sheriff of London, and Richard and Robert Smith, her executors, who have performed the same according to her godly and charitable mind." Tho was sheriff 1601 so this wd have been in Stow's 1603 edition. Died before 1603 London (Ibid.).