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Family and Education
bap. 3 July 1617,Bucks. RO, Akeley bishops’ transcripts. 1st s. of Robert Smyth of Akeley, Bucks., principal of New Inn, London, and Martha Greene of Bedford.Genealogia Bedfordiensis, 40. educ. Trinity, Oxf. 13 Mar. 1635; DCL 10 Nov. 1642;Al. Ox. New Inn; M. Temple, 19 May 1636, called 9 July 1641.MT Admiss. i. 132; MTR ii. 911. m. (1) July or Aug. 1644, Margaret, da. of Sir Alexander Denton* of Hillesden, Bucks. 1s. (d.v.p.) 1da.; (2) bef. 1655, Dorothy (d. 1686), da. of Nathaniel Hobart† of Highgate, Mdx. master in chancery, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 1da. suc. fa. 1645. cr. bt. 10 May 1661.CB; Mems. of the Verney Family, i. 320; ii. 21. bur. 17 Feb. 1698 17 Feb. 1698.Bucks. RO, Akeley par. reg.
Offices Held

Household: servant of Frances, dowager countess of Richmond and Lennox bef. Oct. 1639.PROB11/181/327; Arch. Cant. xi. 250.

Military: col. of horse and ft. (roy.) Nov. 1643.Staffs. RO, D(w) 1778/I/i/1154B; Jnl. of Sir Samuel Luke ed. Philip, 202, 208, 211, 216–7, 220. Gov. Hillesden Feb.-4 Mar. 1644.Jnl. of Sir Samuel Luke, 247–8, 252–3, 257.

Local: j.p. Buckingham 15 Nov. 1660-aft. Aug. 1663;C181/7, pp. 69, 212. Bucks. 1662-Dec. 1687;PC2/71/363. Mdx. June 1674–87.C181/7, p. 477. Commr. assessment, Bucks. 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Buckingham 1672, 1677, 1679; Mdx. 1672, 1677, 1689–?d.;SR. corporations, Bucks. 1662–3;HP Commons 1660–1690. loyal and indigent officers, 1662; subsidy, Bucks., Buckingham 1663;SR sewers, Bucks. 6 June 1664;C181/7, p. 255. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 788. Col. militia ft. and dep. lt. Tower Hamlets by 1680–6.HP Commons 1660–1690.

Central: farmer, coinage of tin, 1661–8 (at rent of £15,500 p.a.).CTB i. 264. Commr. of inquiry into the Mint, 1677–9.HMC Lindsey, 164–75.

Parlimentarian
SMITH (SMYTH), William (1617-97), of Radclive, Bucks. and Stepney, Mdx.
: of the Middle Temple, London; Akeley, Bucks. and Mdx., Stepney.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

SMYTH, William (1617-97), of the Middle Temple, London; Akeley, Bucks. and Stepney, Mdx.

Will
18 Aug. 1694, pr. 10 Feb. 1698.PROB11/436/283; Bucks. RO, W610.
Estates
purchased, with his fa., manor of Akeley, Bucks.VCH Bucks. iv. 145. Creditor (in up to £32,000) of earl of Cleveland, who mortgaged to Smyth the manors of Hackney and Stepney in June 1641.CSP Dom. 1666-7, p. 217; CCC 2164; A. Fea, The Loyal Wentworths (1928), 51. Acquired manor of Radcliffe, Bucks. through his first wife, 1644.Lipscombe, Buckingham, iii. 68; VCH Bucks. iv. 221. Inherited from fa. 1645, property at Wroxhill, Beds. worth £50 p.a., in Bucks. worth £10 p.a. and New College, Oxf. lease in Akeley, worth £30 p.a.; encumbered with debts of £1,000.SP23/203, p. 491; SP23/118, p. 25. By mid-1640s he also had lands in Bristol worth £10 p.a. and a life interest in his chamber at M. Temple, which had cost £45.SP23/203, p. 497.
Oxford 1644
Yes
1640 Volume
oxford
Addresses
chamber at the Middle Temple, until aft. May 1653.MTR ii. 1048.
Religion
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