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b. 10 Nov. 1567,R. Bigland, Hist. Monumental and Gen. Colls. Relative to County of Gloucester ed. B. Frith (Glos. Rec. Series v.), 936. 1st s. of Thomas Smith of Hoby, Leics. and Joan, da. of Richard Alan of Derby. J. Smyth, Berkeley Mss ed. J. Maclean, i. ped. educ. Derby g.s.; household of Henry Berkeley, 7th Lord Berkeley, 1584; Magdalen, Oxf. 1590; Clement’s Inn c.1593; M. Temple 1594, called 1605. Smyth, ii. 394-5; Al. Ox.; M. Temple Admiss. m. (1) 5 Oct. 1597, Grace (d. 9 Nov. 1609), da. and h. of William Thomas of Wotton-under-Edge, Glos., wid. of John Drewe of North Nibley, s.p.; (2) 9 Jan. 1610, Mary (d.1666), da. of John Browning of Coaley, Glos. 5s. 4da. Smyth, i. ped.; iii. 302. suc. fa. by 1594. M. Temple Admiss. i. 66. d. 24 Feb. 1641. Abstracts of Glos. Inquisitiones Post Mortem ed. W.P.W. Phillimore and G.S. Fry (Index Lib. xiii), 168.
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Servant to Sir Thomas Berkeley* 1584–90; Smyth, ii. 394. household steward to 7th Lord Berkeley 1596–7, Ibid. 378. steward of Berkeley estate 1597 – d.; auditor to Henry Percy, 9th earl of Northumberland 1605–9. J. Broadway, ‘John Smyth of Nibley: A Jacobean Man-of-Business and his Service to the Berkeley Fam.’, Midland Hist. xxiv. 89.

Steward of the hundred of Berkeley, Glos. 1597–d.;Ibid. i. pp. i, iv. escheator, Glos. 1601–3; List of Escheators comp. A.C. Wood (L. and I. Soc. lxxii), 59. steward of V.-Admlty Ct., Glos. 1603–13; Smyth, ii. 372. commr. sewers, Glos. 1615, 1625, C181/2, f. 240v; C181/3, f. 172v. subsidy 1629. Smyth, iii. 9.

Member, Virg. Co. 1612, A. Brown, Genesis of US, 1005. cttee. 1621, Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, i. 473. member, Somers Is. Co. 1620, T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire, 378. Fisheries Soc. 1632. SP16/221/1.

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SMITH (SMYTH), John (1567-1641), of Warrens Court, North Nibley, Glos.
Main residence: Warrens Court, North Nibley, Glos.
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