Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameRichard Smyth 
[56, Salop 1663, C of A Ms; Ref C35/84v.85], [58, Lilfords, p. 255], [56, Herefords of 1569, pub Wm Pollard 1886, Smyth pedigree p. 96]
[56, Salop 1663, C of A Ms; Ref C35/84v.85], [58, Lilfords, p. 255], [56, Herefords of 1569, pub Wm Pollard 1886, Smyth pedigree p. 96]General2nd s. Of Credenhall, Hereford. An exchequer officer.
FatherThomas Smyth
MotherElizabeth Welsh
Notes for Richard Smyth
Martin P-L wrote:
Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smyth of Credenhill, Hereford. (From the Ludlow churchwardens' accounts of 1540-1576 we know that her father, as a boy, received payment for a number of crows' heads.)
VCH: "...one Richard Smith, the son of a Herefordshire squire and an officer of the Exchequer".
Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smyth of Credenhill, Hereford. (From the Ludlow churchwardens' accounts of 1540-1576 we know that her father, as a boy, received payment for a number of crows' heads.)
VCH: "...one Richard Smith, the son of a Herefordshire squire and an officer of the Exchequer".
Arms Generally notes for Richard Smyth
Argent a lion passant reguardant gules (?) on a mount vert - "Northamptonshire Families" in Victoria County History series, Ed Oswald Barron FSA, pub London 1906 by Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, p.269.
RCL P-L reported his arms as: Argent on a mount in base vert a lion statant regardant proper.
Arms on son-in-law’s MI: A lion reguardant.
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RCL P-L reported his arms as: Argent on a mount in base vert a lion statant regardant proper.
Arms on son-in-law’s MI: A lion reguardant.
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