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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Addresses

Religion

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