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 Lisbon, and obtained papal confirmation of the new establishment by brief dated Sept. 22, 1622; after considerable further trouble over the question of government, it was finally decided that the president should be nominated by the English archpriest, and the founder, Dom Pedro de Coutinho, purchased premises and erected a small church; two or three years were spent in fitting the building, which was taken possession of by Mr. Joseph Harvey, q.v., and a colony of students from Douay, on Nov. 14, 1628; the date of Mr. Sleighford's death is not recorded.

SMITH, Anthony, son of Thomas Smith, admitted under alias of Martines, Feb. 23, 1636; alumnus June 29, 1639; ord. priest, May 8, 1644; left for England, Dec. 10, 1646; died on the mission, July 8, 1685.

SMITH, Benjamin, born Nov. 10, 1769, son of Benjamin Smith and his wife Mary Ward, of Witham, co. Essex; went to Sedgley Park School, 1780-4; admitted May 28, 1784; ord. priest Dec. 1794, and died in the College, Oct. 19, 1795.

SMITH, Francis, alumnus, April 7, 1688; ord. priest; sent England, Feb. 16, 1692, and stationed in Devonshire; elected archdeacon of the Chapter, July n, 1743; died at Mr. Chester's at Bearscombe, near Kingsbridge, co. Devon, Feb. 25, 1747-8, very advanced in years.

SMITH, James, born June i, 1732, admitted Jan. 16, 1748; alumnus, Dec. 19, 1750; ord. priest, Dec. 18, 1756; left for the mission in London, Dec. 20, 1757. About 1776 he apostatized, was straightway given the rectory of Eastbridge, and soon after the vicarage of Alkham with the chapel le Ferme annexed to it. In vindication of his conduct he published &quot;The Errors of the Church of Rome Detected, in Ten Dialogues, between Benevolus and Sincerus.&quot; Canterbury, 1777, 8vo.; 2nd ed., Lond., 1778, 8vo. This was probably his own version of the private controversy he had after his fall with Mr. Jerome Allen (q.v.). It was answered by &quot; Popery vindicated from divers vulgar aspersions in some letters occasioned by the Dialogues of Rev. James Smith, a priest educated at Lisbon. By Pacificus.&quot; Lond., 1777, 8vo. &quot;Smith of Dover,&quot; wrote Bishop Milner in the Postscript to his Address to the Bishop of St. David s, &quot;was one of