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DING 2015: “He was educated in Derby until 1584 when he moved to Warwickshire to attend the son of Lord Berkeley at Callowden. In 1589 he accompanied him to Oxford. He studied at Clement's Inn and was admited to the Middle Temple in 1594. Three years later he became steward of the hundred and liberty of Berkeley, Glo. In 1613 he was granted two manors in Nibley, Glo. where he resided until his death. A Description of the Hundred of Berkeley (which contains his comments on Gloucestershire dialect) was begun in 1605 but continuously revised till 1639.””

WORKS

Smyth, John. 1885 [1639]. "Phrases and proverbs of speach proper to this hundred." John Maclean. ed. The Berkeley Manuscripts. A Description of the Hundred of Berkeley, in the County of Gloucester and of Its Inhabitants. Vol. III. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Gloucester: Printed by John Bellows. SC. EDD.

NOT IN KINGKONG PROJECT

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

Broadway, J. 1999. "John Smyth of Nibley: a Jacobean man-of-business and his service to the Berkeley family". Midland History 24: 79–97.

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F32333

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/smith-john-1567-1641

Warmington, Andrew. 2008. "Smyth, John (1567–1641)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: University Press. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25836, accessed 2 April 2015]

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John Smyth

(1567-1640)