Henry Smith, Rector of St. Clement's

Thomas Fuller, in a Life of Henry Smith which he prefixed to the first Collected Edition of his works, said of him:

“He was commonly called the Silver-tongued preacher, and that was but one metal below St. Chrysostom himself. His Church was so crowded with auditors that persons of good quality brought their own pews with them, I mean their legs, to stand thereupon in the alleys. Their ears did so attend to his lips, their hearts to their ears, that he held the rudder of their affections in his hands, so that he could steer them whither he was pleased.”

Collected works:

1. A Puritan's Mind

Links

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Sources

1. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 53, Smith, Henry (1550?-1591)
2. Suffolk Manorial Families, Being the County Visitations and Other ..., Volume 1  edited by Joseph James Muskett.  Page 249.  "Smith of Kilburn."
3. The visitation of the county of Leicester in the year 1619 By William Camden, Samson Lennard, Augustine Vincent, College of Arms (Great Britain). Page 66. "Smith al's Harris."
4. Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley By Robert Edmond Chester- Waters.  Page 78.  "The Chesters of Chichely."