SLATER (THOMAS), bookseller in London; Angel in Duck Lane, 1629-53. Took up his freedom May 6th, 1629. [Arber, iii. 686.] Paid £3 as his proportion of the poll money in 1641. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 483 (11).] He died before March 7th, 16523, on which date his widow, Anne Slater, assigned her rights in his copies to James Fletcher or Flesher. [Stationers' Registers, Liber E.]
SMART (TIMOTHY), bookseller (?) in London; Hand and Bible in the Great Old Bailey, near the Sessions House, 1656. His name is found on the imprint to J. Cotton's Exposition upon the 13th Rev. 1656. [E. 893 (2).]
SMELT (MATTHEW), bookseller in London; The Ship [next door to the Castle] in Moorfields, 1667-71. His name occurs on the imprint to G. Thorne's 'Cheiragogia Heliana, 1667.
SMETHWICK (FRANCIS), bookseller (?) in London; Saint Dunstans Churchyard in Fleet Street, under the Dyall, 1642. Son of John Smethwick, one of the publishers of Shakespeare's plays, who died before July 15th, 1641. His father bequeathed him his shop and all the books in it, and the copyrights, including Hamblett, a play, The tameing of a shrew, Romeo & Juliett, and Love's Labour Lost, were assigned over to him on August 24th, 1642. In the same year he published an edition of T. Lodge's Euphues golden legacy, but a few days after receiving the copyrights he re-assigned them to Miles Fletcher or Flesher. [Stationers' Registers, Liber D.]
SMITH (EDWARD), bookseller (?) in London, (?) 1643. His name occurs on the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Joyfull Newes from Plymouth … London, Printed for Edward Smith, 1643. [Hazlitt, ii. 481.]
SMITH (ELEANOR), bookseller (?) in London, 1650. Executrix of Francis Smith. She is mentioned in connection with Vavasour Powell's Concordance of the Holy Bible, 1650. [Rowland's Cambrian Bibliography, p. 153.]
SMITH (FRANCIS), bookseller in London, (1) Flying Horse Court in Fleet Street; (2) Elephant and Castle, without Temple Bar. 1642-67. There appears to have been several booksellers of this name between 1630 and 1667. Mr. Arber records a Francis Smith as publishing between 1633-6.
