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The Society's MSS. Chiseldon, 8fc. 



"Bichard Smith of co. Oxford," as Mrs. Calley's brother-in-law 

 in the accompanying pedigree is called, is not a description hy 

 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 Eichard 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 Bichard 

 of Abingdon, Berks. 



Smith, Bichard (Smyth), of Berks, pleb. Christ Church matric. 23 Nov. 

 1581, aged 15 ; this man may be identical with the father of Bichard, compiler 

 of the obituary, see below (son of Bichard, of Abingdon, Berks), baptized 3 

 Nov., 1567 ; rector of Brasted, Kent, 1618-25, and of Stilton, Hunts, 1625, 

 until his death there 28 Aug. 1638, aged 71. 



[Smith, Bichard (Smyth), s. Bichard, of Lillingston Dayrell, Bucks, cler. ; 

 baptized there 20 Sept. 1590, under sheriff or secondary of the Boultry Compter 

 1644 — 55, and turned book collector, the compiler of " Smyths Obituary " ; 

 died 26 March, 1675, aged 85 ; buried in St. Giles Cripplegate. See Ath. iii., 

 1031.] 



" Smyth's Obituary," admirably edited by Sir Henry Ellis for 

 the Camden Society — the MS. in which Eichard 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 Yisitations, 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 : — 



