Sylvanus Scory (also Silvanus)[1] (c. 1551 – 1617) was an English courtier and politician, known as a soldier, covert agent, and dissolute wit.
According to John Aubrey his father "loved him so dearly that he fleeced the Church of Hereford to leave him a good estate".
[7][8] It came out that Scory as intermediary had arranged for Leicester to meet Mendoza at a dinner held by Customer Smythe.
[9] In a similar role, he had set up a meeting of Gaston de Spinola, envoy from Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma in Flanders, with the queen.
[15][16] He was favoured by Francis, Duke of Anjou, Queen Elizabeth's suitor;[3] and became a patron of Ben Jonson[2] He was a friend of Walter Raleigh and Lawrence Kemys;[17] and a client of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland.