concept for John Smith (Anglican priest, born c. 1700)

John Smith, who was born c. 1700, was an Anglican clergyman and historian, and the author of Chronicon Rusticum-Commerciale, or Memoirs of Wool (published 1747).

Little is known about his life and occupations, except that he became a student of Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1719, that he was ordained in Lincoln in 1720, that he graduated LL.B. in 1725 and that he spent most of his life in Lincolnshire. It is not impossible that he was the John Smith who became rector of Faldingworth, Lincolnshire, in 1720.^[1] ……...

John Smith published mainly on the development of the wool trade and industry. But his first publication had a different scope:

• Smith, John (1733). A discourse on trade, liberty and taxes: Addressed to all land-holders and traders in Great-Britain. Dedicated more particularly to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Recorder Of the City of Lincoln. Lincoln: Printed by W. Wood ; And sold by A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch in Pater Noster-Row, and S. Austen in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London. OCLC 642350875.

All the other works of Smith were devoted to the wool trade, starting with:

• —— (1742). The Grasiers Advocate: or, Free thoughts of wool, and the woollen trade. Occasioned chiefly by reading and comparing two late pieces upon the subject, viz. The Consequences of Trade, &c., by a Draper of London [by William Webster], and An impartial Enquiry into the Importance and present State of the Woollen Manufactories of Great Britain, by J. Gee. [By John Smith, LL. B.] London: J. Roberts. OCLC 771359069.

Five years later, in 1747, his magnum opus was first published:

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William Temple wrote a critical text on Smith's opinions in 1750:

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Smith wrote a reply in the same year:

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Clarke, Ernest Smith, John (fl 1747) in Dictionary of National Biography date=1897

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Baker, Anne Pimlott Smith, John (b. c. 1700) in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography date=2004-09-23 ref=harv doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/25847 (paywall)

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Venn & Venn vol 4, pt 1. …… 1927 p. 103: https://archive.org/details/p1alumnicantabri04univuoft/page/103

lit: SMITH, JOHN. Matric. pens, from Trinity Hall, Mar. 1718-9; LL.B. 1725. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) Sept. 20, 1719; priest, Sept. 25, 1720. Perhaps R. of Faldingworth, Lines., 1720. Settled in Lincolnshire and devoted himself to the study of the development of the woollen industry. Author, Chronicon Rusticum-Commerciale. (D.N.B.)

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