SMITHE, Sir Thomas (c.1595-1668), of Hatherton, Wybunbury, Cheshire.

Family and Education

b. c. 1595, 1st s. of Laurence Smith of Hough, Wybunbury, and Anne, da. of Sir Randal Mainwaring of Over Peover, Cheshire.Vis. Cheshire (Harl. Soc. lix), 213, 214. educ. L. Inn 14 Feb. 1614.L. Inn Admiss. i. 165. m. 20 Dec. 1616 (with at least £1,500), Mary, da. of Hugh Smith of Long Ashton, Som. 5s. (2 d.v.p.) 3da. 14 other ch.Long Ashton par. reg.; Bristol RO, AC/S/8; Vis. Cheshire, 214; Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. pt. 1, p. 503. Kntd. 21 July 1615.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 156. suc. fa. 19 Jan. 1621.Cheshire IPMs ed. R. Stewart-Brown (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xci), 61. d. c. May 1668.Cheshire RO, ZAB/2, f. 160v.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Chester 23 Dec. 1614–?d.;Cal. Chester City Mins. ed. M. J. Groombridge (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cvi), 77. alderman, 23 Dec. 1614 – 1 Oct. 1646, 26 Aug. 1662–d.;Cheshire RO, ZAB/2, f. 135; Cal. Chester City Mins. ed. Groombridge, 77; LJ viii. 506. mayor, 1622–3.Cal. Chester City Mins. ed. Groombridge, 118.

Local: j.p. Chester 1622- 1 Oct. 1646, 26 Aug. 1662–d.;Cal. Chester City Mins. ed. Groombridge, p. xi. Cheshire 13 Mar. 1626–11 Nov. 1644.C231/4, f. 198v; Cheshire RO, DAR/I/29. Sheriff, 1622–3.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 18. Commr. privy seal loan, 1626;SP16/53/28, f. 38. Forced Loan, 1627;C193/12/2, f. 6. sewers, 7 Feb. 1628;C181/3, f. 237v. charitable uses, Chester 24 Apr. 1630; Cheshire 24 Apr. 1630, 15 Nov. 1638.C192/1, unfol. Dep. lt. by Feb. 1639–?Cheshire RO, ZCR 63/2/6, f. 60v. Commr. subsidy, Chester 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642, 1664; Cheshire 1642;SR. array (roy.), 16 June, 10 Oct. 1642.Northants. RO, FH133; Cheshire RO, DLT/B11, pp. 76, 83.

Parlimentarian

SMITHE, Sir Thomas (c.1595-1668), of Hatherton, Wybunbury, Cheshire.

: of Hatherton, Wybunbury, Cheshire.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

SMITHE, Sir Thomas (c.1595-1668), of Hatherton, Wybunbury, Cheshire.

Will

3 July 1666, pr. 2 Nov. 1668.PROB11/328, f. 260v.

Estates

in 1614, inherited manors of Greasty, Great Shavington, Hatherton, Hough and Weston; a moiety of manor of Audlem; numerous properties around Chester and east and south of Nantwich; 16 saltworks in Nantwich and 6 in Middlewich; impropriate rectory and advowson of vicarage of Audlem; and 60 messuages and 40 cottages in Chester.Cheshire IPMs ed. Stewart-Brown, 57-60. He was assessed at £20 for the privy seal loan in 1625;Cheshire RO, DLT/B/11, p. 14. and at £20 for the 1641 subsidy.M.D.G. Wanklyn, ‘Landed Society and Allegiance in Cheshire and Shropshire in the First Civil War’ (Manchester Univ. PhD thesis, 1976), 375. By 1641, he was leasing a house on King Street, Covent Garden, near the Piazza.SP16/482/110, f. 211v; SP16/483/20, f. 36v. In 1646, estate consisted of manors of Greasty, Hough, Shavington and Weston; a moiety of manors of Audlem and Hatherton; numerous properties around Chester and east and south of Nantwich; impropriate rectory and advowson of vicarage of Audlem, Cheshire – valued at £779 p.a. (minus rents and annuities of £191 p.a.) and, on improvement, at £1,139 p.a.SP23/187, pp. 543-6, 575-6.

Oxford 1644

Yes

1640 Volume

oxford

Addresses

house of Sir John Miller, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, Westminster (1641);CSP Dom. 1641-3, p. 60. house of Lord Poulett, Chiswick, Mdx. (1641).SP16/485/12, f. 31v.

Religion

presented Richard Eaton to vicarage of Audlem, Cheshire, 1642; William Seddon, 1645; Gabriel Smith, 1662.IND1/70007, ff. 129v, 386.

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