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The Rise of a Gentry Family: The Smyths of Ashton Court, c.1500-1642

J[oseph] H. Bettey, The Rise of a Gentry Family: The Smyths of Ashton Court, c.1500-1642 ( Bristol Historical Association pamphlets, no. 43, 1978) Pamphlet written by Dr Joseph Bettey (historian, University of Bristol) about the Smyth family, who began as Bristol merchants in the early sixteenth century and then transformed into a prominent local gentry family following the purchase of the Ashton Court Estate by John Smyth during the 1540s. Pamphlet digitised and uploaded by the Bristol Record Society / Bristol Branch of the Historical Association .

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