Excerpt from The Obituary of Richard Smyth, Secondary of the Poultry Compter, London: Being a Catalogue of All Such Persons as He Knew in Their Life: Extending From A. D. 1627 to A. D. 1674 The present volume has been printed from a transcript of the Sloane Manuscript in the British Museum No. 886, placed at the disposal of the Camden Society by Sir Charles George Young, Garter King of Arms. The proof sheets have been collated with the Sloane MS.; this, however, is itself but a transcript, later than Smyth's time. Where the original manuscript of the Obituary is deposited is not at present known. The best account of Richard Smyth is to be found in Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, whose words we shall copy, subsequently making a few additions to the account of Smyth and his library; premising here, that in the parish register of Lillingston Dayrell, where he was born, and in his own signatures to the London Visitation in the Herald's College, and to his Will, his name is uniformly spelt Smyth; whilst upon his monument, and in the Register which records his burial at Cripplegate, it is spelt Smith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."