Margery Guinet

Margaret (or Margery) Gwynnethe (or Guinet) (died 1544), was an English businesswoman. She was the mother of Anne Locke, and the silkwoman of queen Anne Boleyn, queen Anne of Cleves, and queen Katherine Parr.^[1]

She was the daughter of Dafydd ap Llewelyn ap Ithel of Castellmarch (Abersoch), Llŷn, Caernarfonshire. She was the sister of John Gwynneth, rector of Luton (1537–1558) and of St. Peter, Westcheap in the City of London (1543–1556).

She first married Edward Awpart, citizen and Girdler of London in the parish of St. Mary le Bow, who originated from Penkridge in Staffordshire and died in London in 1532 leaving Margaret with five children.^[2][3] She married secondly to Stephen Vaughan (merchant and MP), and as such she was known as "Mistress Vaughan".^[4]

Her spouse recommended her work to Thomas Cromwell, claiming that she had already devised certain works for Anne Boleyn, but that they had been forwarded to her.^[5] Mistress Vaughan supplied crimson silk fringes for a close stool, and tawny satin and ribbon to line a coffer made for the Lady Mary by William Green in August 1537.^[6] She provided supplies for saddlery for queen Anne of Cleves. Queen Katherine Parr did not pay very promptly and her husband pursued the debts.^[7]

References

1. Susan M. Felch, 'Deir Sister: The Letters of John Knox to Anne Vaughan Lok', Renaissance and Reformation, 19:4 (Fall 1995), p. 47.
2. Susan Rose, Henry VIII and the Merchants: The World of Stephen Vaughan (Bloomsbury, 2023), p. 64.
3. Will of Edward Awpart, "Girdler" (mis-written "Gardener" in Discovery Catalogue of TNA (UK) of London (P.C.C. 1532, Thower quire, m/film imgs 237-38): PROB 11/24/211 and PROB 11/24/220.
4. Eleri Lynn, Tudor Textiles (Yale, 2020), p. 109.
5. Maria Hayward, Dress at the court of Henry VIII (Maney, 2007), pp. 35, 328.
6. 'Accounts of the Groom of the Stole', The Antiquary, 20 (London, 1889), p. 190.
7. Maria Hayward, Dress at the court of Henry VIII (Maney, 2007), pp. 328, 340.