For seven years, Samuel Howe pastored the church that met in “Deadman’s Place,” London. To earn a living and pay the bills he worked as a cobbler, as did William Carey before he went to India. Howe published a book called “The Sufficiency of the Spirit’s Teaching,” suggesting that the Bible should be the source of all Spiritual knowledge. Not only that, he preached that Christians “owned no other head of the church but Jesus Christ,” which drew the wrath of both the Catholics and the Anglicans. For this he was imprisoned, and that was where he died, on this day in 1641. Upon his death, officials of the Church of England refused permission for his burial in any recognized cemetery and even posted guards at the cemetery at Shoreditch, close to his former home, to make sure that none of his friends interred him there. Eventually he was buried at Agnes-la-Clair and, according to Roger Williams, “hundreds of God’s people” attended the service.
Source – “This Day in Baptist History” by Wayne Thompson and David Cummins