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Family and Education
m. bef. 1639, Alice; at least 3 da. (1 d.v.p.)Mems. of St Margaret’s Church, Westminster ed. A. Meredyth (1914), 159, 189; PROB11/279/247. d. c. Apr. 1658.CSP Dom. 1657-8, p. 367.
Offices Held

Diplomatic: sec. of embassy, Paris 1619, 1631;Autobiography of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury ed. S.L. Lee (1886), 198; APC 1630–1, p. 280. Venice 1626.CSP Ven. 1625–6, pp. 500, 515, 522, 529, 540.

Household: sec. to Algernon Percy†, 4th earl of Northumberland, by Apr. 1636-c.Apr. 1642.Household Pprs. of Henry Percy ed. G.R. Batho (Cam. Soc. 3rd ser. xciii), 168; CSP Dom. 1635–6, p. 307; 1641–3, p. 282; SP16/316, f. 131; Add. 3352, f. 72.

Central: sec. admlty. 15 Sept. 1642-Apr. 1645.A. and O.; HMC 5th Rep. 48; LJ v. 357. Recvr. sale of prize goods and ships, 27 Feb. 1644–17 Apr. 1649.A. and O. Commr. navy, 27 Aug. 1647–d.LJ ix. 410b; HMC 6th Rep. 194; CJ v. 18, 285. Trustee, Irish lands, 5 June 1648. Commr. sale of prize goods, 17 Apr.-15 June 1649.A. and O.; CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 187. Clerk of privy seal, 31 May 1655.Add. 4184, f. 107. Member, cttee. for improving revenues of customs and excise, 26 June 1657.A. and O.

Local: commr. assessment, Surr. 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; defence of Surr. 1 July 1645. 1 Oct. 1647 – bef.Jan. 1650A. and O. J.p. Essex, May 1652–?d.;C231/6, p. 98; C193/13/4, f. 36v. Mdx., Surr. 1 Oct. 1647-bef. Oct. 1653;C231/6, p. 98; C193/13/4, ff. 62, 98v. Kent 1 Oct. 1647 – bef.Oct. 1653, 11 Mar. 1656–d.;C231/6, p. 98, 328; C193/13/4, f. 49v. Hants 1 Oct. 1647-bef. Mar. 1657.C231/6, p. 98; C193/13/4, f. 87v; C193/13/5, f. 54v.

Religious: commr. exclusion from sacrament, twelfth London classis (St Sepulchre), 20 Oct. 1645, 29 Aug. 1648. Trier of elders, twelfth London classis, 26 Sept. 1646.A. and O.

Mercantile: elder bro. Trinity House by July 1648–d.LJ x. 339–40.

: Essex and Westminster., Covent Garden.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

SMITH, Thomas II (d. 1658), of Wanstead, Essex, and Covent Garden, Westminster.

Will
1 Aug. 1656, pr. 7 July 1658.PROB11/279/247.
Estates
house in Queen Street, London, bef. Sept. 1628-aft. Feb. 1639.CSP Dom. 1628-9, p. 260; 1638-9, pp. 92, 491. By Feb. 1656, but perhaps from bef. 1641, estate in Ireland.CSP Dom. 1655-6, p. 460; SP18/133, f. 106. Smith’s will mentioned a house in Wanstead, Essex, and a house in Covent Garden, as well as an estate of 6,000 acres in Ireland, and further property in Cornw., Essex and Suff.PROB11/279/247.
Oxford 1644
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