114:"From his youth he constantly applied himself to the reading of antient classical authors of the best note, in their own languages; wherewith, as also with neoterics, he was plentifully stored, and lusted after no worldly thing so much as books; of which, tho' he had great store, yet there were none scarce to be found in his library, especially of the antients, that he had not read over... He ran thro' the Greek and Latin fathers, and judiciously noted them in the margin as he went. The Rabbins also, as many as he had, with their glosses and commentaries, he read and used in their own idiom of speech. And so conversant he was, and expert in the Chaldaic, Syriac and Arabic, that he made them as familiar to him, almost, as his own native tongue. Hebrew also he had at his fingers' ends, and withal stories of all times; and for his rich and accomplish'd furniture in that study, he had this elogy given him by a learned bishop of this kingdom, that 'he was a very walking library'."
146:"For his exactness in those languages, he was thought worthy by king James I. to be called to that great work of the last translation of our English BIBLE, wherein he was esteemed the chief, and a workman that needed not be ashamed. He began with the first, and was the last man in the translation of the work; for after the task of translation was finished by the whole number set a-part and designed to that business, being some few above forty, it was raised by a dozen selected from them, and at length referred to the final examination of Bilson bishop of Winton, and this our author, who, with the rest of the twelve, are stiled in the
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40:) was a clergyman of the Church of England renowned as a most accomplished theologian, scholar and bibliophile. After attaining the degree of DD, or doctor of divinity, he progressed to become Bishop of Gloucester (1612-1624). Although he may have been at times an indifferent administrator, his erudition contributed fundamentally to the translation and production of the
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207:. An Alderman of the city attempted to suppress disturbance by committing various people to prison, but, doubting his powers of containment, he advised the Dean (William Laud) that the High Commissioners should be brought in. Laud was then able to show the bishop that if they acted in consort to restore order, this would be viewed favourably by the king.
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was preached at
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Bishop Smith died in
November 1624 in the presence of his surviving children; his funeral eulogy includes a short deathbed scene. His will, written 7 March 1623/24, and finalized on 12 October 1624, was proved on 6 November 1624. He was buried on 9 November in the Lady Chapel of Gloucester Cathedral,
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to be Dean of
Gloucester, saying that the church of Gloucester was ill-governed, and requiring him to reform and repair it and to set matters in order. The bishop had set the Communion table in the middle of the choir, but in 1616 Laud had it removed to the east end (the position of a high altar) and
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It is said that Dr Smith received the bishopric of
Gloucester in 1612 as a reward for his great pains taken in the translation of the Bible. "But then withall he was a man that spared not to shew himself upon all occasions in favour of the Calvinian party; and more particularly in countenancing the
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The bishop's chaplain wrote to his
Chancellor protesting that the new arrangement would give encouragement to the Roman Catholics who wished to restore superstitious practises, and that the prebendaries had been faint-hearted in their not having resisted the change. A copy of the letter was thrown
203:, where the sub-Dean, Thomas Prior, used to preach, with the intention of bringing it to the notice of the prebendaries. However it fell into the hands of the parish clerk, and was communicated to the large and turbulent Puritan faction in the city, who raised an outcry against
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granted or exemplified for him the following arms: "Or, a chevron cotised sable, between three roses gules, slipped vert" (also blazoned as "Or, a chevron entre 2 cheveronells sable between 3 roses gules, leaves and stalks vert.") Camden's
Visitation shows these arms impaling
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Smith left his collection of Hebrew and Arabic texts to
Hereford Cathedral library. These were to form a working resource for the study of the Bible: the sources and editions are more fully explained and identified in a recent article. His will refers to the following:
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Certaine Plaine, Briefe, and
Comfortable Notes upon everie Chapter of Genesis Gathered and Laid Downe for the good of them that are not able to use better helpes, and yet carefull to read the worde, and right heartilie desirous to taste the sweete of
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advised all the prebendaries, choristers and officers to make low obeisances towards it as they approached. Dr Smith objected fiercely, saying (reputedly) that he would never enter the church again until the table was restored to its former position.
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According to the
Heralds' Visitations, Smith married twice. His first marriage was to Mary Hawkins of Cardiff, who was the mother of Dr Smith's children. His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Ligon (or Lygon) of
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earlier life, it is shown by John Tiller (Chancellor of
Hereford Cathedral) that several of them should date from the time of Smith's episcopacy because they include biblical passages in the King James translation of 1611.
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Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God Miles Smith, late Lord Bishop of Glocester. Transcribed out of his originall manuscripts, and now published for the Common Good
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Cyprianus Anglicus, or, The History of the Life and Death of the Most Reverend and Renowned Prelate William, by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury
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Lecturers within his Diocess against the lawful Minister of the Parish when ever any complaint of their proceedings was made unto him," wrote
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Separate elaborate monuments with effigies of his daughters Elizabeth and Margery survive in Gloucester cathedral. Both died in child-birth.
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where his grave was marked by a white stone, bearing no inscription but displaying his arms impaled by those of the see of Gloucester.
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Smith was born in Hereford, a fletcher's son, and attended Hereford School. He had a brother Richard and a sister Anne. He was of
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Labourers in the Vineyard of the Lord. Erudition and the Making of the King James Version of the Bible
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The Translators Revived: A Biographical Memoir of the Authors of the English Version of the Holy Bible
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A Sermon at the Funerall of the Right Reverend Father in God, Miles, Late Lord Bishop of Gloucester
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The Visitation of the County of Gloucester, Taken in the Year 1623... for William Camden
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Katherine Smith, (married William Sutton, Chancellor of the see of Gloucester).
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Monument to Elizabeth Smith (Mrs Williams). The Smith arms are in the
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Margaret Smith, living 1624 (married Edmund Morgan "of Guerneclepa").
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In the Steps of William Tyndale: Miles Smith as Bible Translator
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Will of Myles Bishop of Gloucester (P.C.C. 1624, Byrde quire).
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Arabic New Testament, and the Five Books of Moses (Pentateuch)
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Margery Smith, died 1623 (married James Clent of Gloucester)
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University of East Anglia digital repository pdf download
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The Bible in Hebrew in 4 volumes in quarto, gilded leaves
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in 1584/85 and was incorporated in that degree in the
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God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
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and the Rabbins in 4 volumes bound in white leather
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96:in 1604. He became one of the original fellows of
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