Hugh Kayle

Hugh Kayle or Keale or Keall (died 1604) was a London goldsmith who served Elizabeth I.

Kayle was one of the queen's goldsmiths. He marked silverware supplied to the queen with a special punch.

He was a son of John Keale, also a goldsmith. He was a churchwarden of St Mary Woolnoth in 1574 and 1575.

He worked in partnership with Alderman Richard Martin from 1590. In 1591 they supplied plate given by the queen at several christenings.[1] In October 1594 Kayle and Martin were paid £2635 for their work over a year. This included the costs of plate given to ambassadors or as New Year's day gifts, mending the queen's plate, for paying craftsman working on the queen's coffers, and expenses made by officers of the Goldsmiths' Company looking for stolen plate.[2] Kayle and Martin received £2236 in May 1597, and £2377 in 1599.[3]

In October 1600, Kayle, Leonard Bushe, and the German-born John Spilman appraised and sold a quantity of old jewels, precious stones, and other stones, from the Tower of London on the orders of Queen Elizabeth. These included pearls that had been embroidered on the Queen's gowns, and "diverse Dutch agates and counterfeit stones".[4]

His children included John, Hugh, Lancelot, Anne, Rowland.

References
  1. HMC 6th Report: Wykeham-Martin (London, 1877), p. 468.
  2. Mary Anne Everett Green, Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1591-1594 (London, 1867), p. 559.
  3. Mary Anne Everett Green, Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1595-1597, p. 418.
  4. HMC Salisbury Hatfield: 1600, vol. 10 (London, 1906), pp. 356-9.
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