152 The Society's MSS. Chiseldon, &c. 
“Richard Smith of co. Oxford,’’ as Mrs. Calley’s brother-in-law 
in the accompanying pedigree is called, is not a description by 
which readily to identify a man. No such person appears in the 
Smith pedigrees, of which several are printed in “ Three Oxfordshire 
Parishes,” issued by the Oxford Historical Society: but with the 
clue that Richard Smith had a son Edward Smith, called “my 
loving nephew” in John Calley’s will, the “‘ Alumni Oxonienses” 
supplied the identification. Three entries, in the sixteen closely- 
printed pages, there given, of Smiths at Oxford University between 
1500 and 1715, are as follows :— 
Smith, Edward, of Berks, pleb. Magdalen Coll. matrie. 22 June, 1610, aged 
18. B.A. 25 Oct. 1610; Student of Middle Temple, 1602, as 3 son of Richard 
of Abingdon, Berks. 
Smith, Richard (Smyth), of Berks, pleb. Christ Church matric. 23 Nov. 
1581, aged 15; this man may be identical with the father of Richard, compiler 
of the obituary, see below (son of Richard, of Abingdon, Berks), baptized 3 — 
Noy., 1567; reetor of Brasted, Kent, 1618— 25, and of Stilton, Hunts, 1625, 
until his death there 28 Aug. 1638, aged 71. 
[Smith, Richard (Smyth), s. Richard, of Lillingston Dayrell, Bucks, cler. ; 
baptized there 20 Sept. 1590, under sheriff or secondary of the Poultry Compter 
1644—55, and turned book collector, the compiler of ‘‘ Smyths Obituary ” ; 
died 26 March, 1675, aged 85; buried in St. Giles Cripplegate. See Ata. iii., 
1031. ! 
“Smyth’s Obituary,” admirably edited by Sir Henry Ellis for 
the Camden Society—the MS. in which Richard Smyth set down 
from 1627 to 1674 the deaths of his acquaintance, particularly — 
‘among lawyers, booksellers in Duck Lane, &c.—is well known. 
Prefixed to the printed volume is a pedigree compiled by Sir 
Charles Young, Garter, from Visitations, which very satisfactorily 
gives us the descent from Jodrell, and establishes the identity of 
“my loving nephew Mr. Edward Smith” and the kinship of the 
Calleys to the author of the Obituary :— 
