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CHAP, who found the matter so ill on Maddocks s part, that he 

 was content before them to ask him forgiveness, and to pro 



mise that he would ever after have a reverent regard of his 

 duty toward the said Bishop, as his ordinary. 



Smith, Lee- Mr. Henry Smith, an eloquent and a witty man, had the 

 Clement?&quot; * ast J^* v 158 ?&amp;gt; become Reader or Lecturer at St. Cle 

 ment Danes without Temple-Bar, at the desire of many of 

 the parishioners, and by the favour of the Lord Treasurer, 

 who dwelt in the said parish, and yielded contribution to 

 him. This is the Smith whose sermons have been a com 

 mon family book even to this day, and often reprinted. He 

 was the son of a gentleman of Leicestershire, and bred for 

 a little while in Oxford : but desiring to spend more time 

 there, his father, whatever the reason was, would not yield 

 unto his suit. Soon after his coming from Oxford, he lived 

 and followed his studies with Richard Greenham, a pious 

 Minister in the country, but not thoroughly affected to the 

 orders of the Church established; and his principles he 

 seemed to have infused into Smith. The Lord Treasurer 

 took notice of the man, especially when he put in for the 

 preacher s place in the parish of St. Clement s. Therefore 

 he obtained a testimonial and character from Greenham to 

 the said Lord : to whom, after some preface in his letter, as 

 considering his Honour s place, and rare wisdom in discerning 

 of gifts, and his own unmeetness to commend, and that there 

 were many better means to inform himself, which he might 

 Greenham s have ; at length he thus wrote of him, &quot; That he would 

 him to the &quot; n t speak of his human literature, whereof he supposed 

 Treasurer. Smith himself had given him [the Lord Treasurer] some 

 &quot; small token, (he meant, I suppose, by a sermon preached 

 &quot; before him,) but he had perceived him to have been well 

 &quot; exercised in the holy Scriptures, religious and devout in 

 &quot; mind, moderate and sober in opinions and affection, dis- 

 &quot; creet and temperate in his behaviour, industrious in his 

 &quot; studies and affairs, and, as he hoped, of an humble spirit 

 &quot; and upright heart, joined with the fervent zeal of the 

 &quot; glory of God and health of souls. Which mixture of 

 &quot; God s gifts put him in hopes, that God hereafter might 



