Family and Education
b. 1st s. of Henry Smythe (bur. 27 Dec. 1631) of Baydon, Wilts. and his 2nd w. Jane, da. of Anthony Anger of Watchfield, Berks.Vis. Wilts. 1623 (Harl. Soc. cv and cvi), 180; Baydon par. reg. educ. I. Temple, 20 Oct. 1619.I. Temple database. m. (1) ‘aged 28’, lic. 6 Feb. 1633, Cicily (b. c. 1613), da. of Henry Bulstrode† of Horton and Hedgeley Bulstrode, Bucks.;London Marr. Licences (Harl. Soc. xxv), 26. ?(2) ?bef. 1636, Mary (bur. 12 Nov. 1639), 1da.;St Peter and St Paul, Marlborough, par. reg (bap. 15 Sept. 1636; bur. 1639). ?(3) bef. 1643, ?Elizabeth (d. bef. 17 Aug. 1644), 1s. (d.v.p.);St Dunstan-in-the-East, London par. reg. (bap. May 1643); St Dunstan-in-the-West par. reg. (bur. June 1664); CJ iii. 594a; I. Temple database; PROB11/315/170. (4) Elizabeth (bap. 2 Feb. 1613), da. and coh. of John Goddard (d. 1635) of Ogbourne St Andrew, Wilts. ?and wid. of Thomas Norris, 4s. 1da.; (5) by 1658, Theodosia (d. aft. 1675), ?da. of Dr Thomas Hodges (d. 1673), vicar of St Mary, Kensington, later w. of Stephen Tracy, 2s. (1 d.v.p.), 2da.Ogbourne St Andrew, Ogbourne St George par. regs.; VCH Wilts. xii. 57, 144; The Par. Reg. of Kensington, Co. Mdx. (Harl. Soc. reg. ser. xvi), 44-6; PROB11/315/170. d. betw. 2 Aug. and 25 Oct. 1664.PROB11/315/170.
Offices Held

Legal: called, I. Temple 15 June 1628;I. Temple database. treas. 1643;CITR ii. 1004. steward, 26 Jan. 1662.CITR iii. 8. Clerk and solicitor of commrs. to Fleet prison, 21 May 1634, 24 Jan. 1635.CSP Dom. 1634–5, pp. 34, 47, 471. Clerk in chancery by Aug. 1644-bef. 28 Aug. 1654.CSP Dom. 1654, p. 337.

Central: member, cttee. for examinations, 17 Jan. 1642.CJ ii. 385a.

Local: commr. assessment, Wilts. 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Mdx. 7 Dec. 1649; Westminster 26 Jan. 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). commr. for Wilts. 1 July 1644; defence of Wilts. 15 July 1644; sewers, Mdx. 15 Oct. 1645;C181/5, f. 262v. Westminster militia, 14 Jan. 1648, 28 June 1659;CJ v. 433a; LJ ix. 663a; A. and O. militia, Wilts. 2 Dec 1648, 26 July 1659.A. and O. J.p. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1660.C193/13/3, f. 69; C193/13/4, f. 109; C193/13/5, f. 115v; C193/13/6, f. 96; A Perfect List (1660), 59. Commr. oyer and terminer, Western circ. by Feb. 1654-June 1659.C181/6, pp. 9, 308.

: London; Baydon, Wilts. and Mdx., Kensington.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

SMYTHE, Philip (c.1605-64), of the Inner Temple, London; Baydon, Wilts. and Kensington, Mdx.

Will
2 Aug., pr. 25 Oct. 1664.PROB11/315/170.
Estates
from Dec. 1631, £50 and reversion of lease in Baydon farm;PROB11/161/159 (Henry Smith). 19 June 1633, purchased freehold with Pigscourt farm and other lands in parishes of Baydon, Ramsbury and Alborne, for £1,375;VCH Wilts. xii. 57; Birmingham City Archives, 3415/277. from later 1640s, disputed life interest in lands at Cricklade and Ogborne, all in Wilts.; lands in Hammersmith, Mdx.PROB11/315/170.
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