Huguenot pastor Jean Jembelin and his sermons: part 2. England 1685–1727

Part 1 of this article (published in the Huguenot Society Journal vol. 37, 2024) discussed Huguenot pastor Jean Jembelin and the sermons he preached in Normandy between 1676 and 1684. Following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes on 15 October 1685, Jembelin fled France. He resumed his ministry first at the Walloon church at Thorney Abbey in rural Cambridgeshire, and then at the Patente church in Spitalfields, East London, in April 1713, retaining that appointment until his death in 1727. His large volume of sermons, preserved at Lambeth Palace Library, is the most comprehensive collection of Huguenot manuscript sermons delivered in England during this period and a unique source of information about his preaching over five decades.