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Rh [Transcript, vol v.] There was also a Francis Smith who was dead before 1650, leaving a widow Eleanor. He may have been identical with the earlier man. Lastly there was Francis Smith, who in 1659 published, among other things, Capt. W. Bray's Plea for the people's good cause [E. 763 (7)], and who was perhaps identical with the Francis Smith better known as "Elephant" Smith of a later period. [Arber, Term Catalogues, vol. 1, Index.]  SMITH (G.), bookseller (?) in London, 1642. His name is found on the imprint to the following pamphlet: Two strange prophesies &hellip; London, Printed for G. Smith, 1642. [Hazlitt, i. 344.]  SMITH (JOHN), bookseller in London; Paul's Alley, 1641-7. Mentioned as one of the "better sort of freemen" in a list of stationers who in 1641 paid 20 shillings as his proportion of the poll tax. [Domestic State Papers, Chas. I, vol. 483 (11).] Several stationers of this name took up their freedom before 1640. [Arber, v. 265.]  SMITH (JOHN G.), (?) bookseller in London, 1642. His name occurs on the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Newes from New England, 1642. [E. 144 (22.)]  SMITH (NATHANIEL), (?) bookseller in Cambridge, 1647. Several political pamphlets issued in August, 1647, by the imprint, Printed for Nathaniel Smith: Cambridge. No bookseller of this name is known to have been in Cambridge at that time, and it is probably the name of the author of the pamphlet, if it is not altogether fictitious.  SMITH (RALPH), bookseller in London; [Blue] Bible in Cornhil [near the Royal Exchange], 1642-60. Took up his freedom May 6th, 1639. [Arber, iii. 688.] One of the publishers of the Directory for Publick Worship, 1644. A list of books published by him in 1655, all of them theological, is printed at the end of W. Spurstowe's Wel's of Salvation, 1655. Another list of twenty books occurs at the end of David Dickson's Brief Explication of the first Fifty Psalms, 1653.  SMITH (THOMAS), bookseller in Manchester, 1643-9. Associated with, q.v., the London bookseller, in the publication of the following books: R. Hollingsworth's Examination of sundry scriptures, 1645. [E. 24 