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Family and Education
m. by 1649, at least 1s.C93/20/12. d. 12 Mar. 1683.Six North Country Diaries ed. J.C. Hodgson (Surt. Soc. cxviii), 46.
Offices Held

Mercantile: member, Durham Mercers and Grocers Co. by 1632–d.Northumb. RO, ZAN.M.13/F.4, unfol.

Civic: freeman, Durham by 1632–?d.;Northumb. RO, ZAN.M.13/F.4. common councilman by Apr. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1651; alderman by Oct. 1651–?c.Oct. 1662; mayor, 4 Oct. 1657–4 Oct. 1658.Durham Univ. Lib. Mickleton and Spearman ms 25, f. 37; Durham Civic Memorials ed. G.F. Whiting (Surt. Soc. clx), 41, 63, 64–5.

Religious: churchwarden, St Nicholas, Durham 1635.Surtees, Co. Dur. iv. 50.

Local: collector, dean and chapter rents, Durham dioc. by Sept. 1640-c.Mar. 1649;CSP Dom. 1640–1, p. 61; SP28/227, pt. 1, unfol. sequestered church rents by 25 Mar. 1644-c.Jan. 1649; assessment, co. Dur. 1 Apr. 1646-c.Jan. 1649.Durham RO, D/Gr 403; E113/15, unfol. (Answers of Anthony Smith and Gilbert Marshall). Commr. charitable uses, 27 June 1649, 1651–3;C93/20/12; LPL, COMM VIII/I, p. 427. assessment, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660;An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); A. and O. ejecting scandalous ministers, Cumb., co. Dur., Northumb. and Westmld. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. militia, co. Dur. 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659.SP25/76A, f. 15v; A. and O. J.p. 20 Mar. 1655-Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 306, 376. Recvr. subscriptions, Durham Univ. 12 Apr. 1656;CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 262. visitor, 15 May 1657.Burton’s Diary, ii. 537. Commr. assizes, co. Dur. 18 July 1656–12 Aug. 1660;C181/6, pp. 182, 299. securing peace of commonwealth by Dec. 1656;CSP Dom. 1656–7, pp. 185, 329. sewers, River Tyne 21 May 1659.C181/6, p. 359.

Central: member, cttee. for statutes, Durham Univ. 10 Mar. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 218.

Parlimentarian
SMITH, Anthony (d. 1683), of St Nicholas, Durham, co. Dur.
: of St Nicholas, co. Dur., Durham.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

SMITH, Anthony (d. 1683), of St Nicholas, Durham, co. Dur.

Will
d. intestate.Durham UL, DPR, 1682, A206.
Estates
leased property from Durham dean and chapter.CSP Dom. 1639-40, pp. 499-500; W. Dumble, ‘The Durham Lilburnes and the English Revolution’, in The Last Principality ed. D. Marcombe (Durham, 1987), 229. Received a salary of £50 p.a. as a collector of sequestered church rents of the diocese of Durham (by Mar. 1644-c.Jan. 1649).SP28/227, pt. 1; Durham RO, D/Gr 403. In 1658, Durham corporation granted him an annuity of £20 for seven years.Durham Civic Memorials ed. Whiting, 64-5. He was said to have been the master of a hospital (unnamed) and a registrar of marriages – an office worth £200 p.a.Summers, Sunderland, 383.
Oxford 1644
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