Edmund Hickeringill

Infobox person
name=Edmund Hickeringill
birth_date=1631
death_date=1708
occupation=Chaplain

Edmund Hickeringill (1631–1708) was an English churchman who lived during the period of the Commonwealth and the Restoration.

Education & Career

Hickeringill graduated from Caius College, Cambridge, where he was junior fellow in 1651–1652. During the First English Civil War he fought on the side of the Roundheads, serving in Robert Lilburne's regiment as a chaplain, as a soldier in Scotland and in the Swedish service, ultimately becoming a captain in Charles Fleetwood's regiment.

He then lived for a time in Jamaica, of which he published an account in 1661. In the same year he was ordained by Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln, having already changed his beliefs several times and been a Baptist, Quaker and Deist.

From 1662 until his death in 1708 he was vicar of All Saints' in Colchester.

Controversy

According to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, " [Hickeringill] was an active pamphleteer, and came into collision with Henry Compton, Bishop of London, to whom he had to pay heavy damages for slander in 1682. He made a public recantation in 1684, was excluded from his living in 1685-1688, and ended his career by being convicted of forgery in 1707."

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