Nine Worthies
In April 1640, Smallman was elected Member of Parliament for Leominster in the Short Parliament. Smallman was one of the "Nine Worthies" – nine justices who formed the royalist leadership in Herefordshire in the summer of 1642. The other "worthies" were Sir William Croft, Wallop Brabazon, Thomas Wigmore of Shobden, Thomas Price of Wisterdon, Fitzwilliam Conningsby,