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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. ……...