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VENN: Adm. at KING'S (age 17) a scholar from Eton, Aug. 25, 1603. Of Hunston, near Stowmarket, Suffolk. B. at Badwell. B.A. 1607-8; M.A. 1611. Fellow, 1606-22. Fellow of Eton, 1622. Ord. deacon and priest (London) Sept. 19, 1619, age 34. V. of Broad Chalk, Wilts., 1622; resigned the same year. V. of Mapledurham, Oxon., 1630. Died 1635. Buried in Eton College Chapel. Father of John (1646), alias Hovell. (Harwood; Suffolk Manor Fam., II. 52, 403.)
[Despite different forenames,John and Thomas Smith are taken as the same person here]