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HICKERINGILL (or HICKHRRNGILL), See also:EDMUND (1631-1708) , See also:English divine, lived an eventful See also:life in the days of the See also:Common-See also:wealth and the Restoration. After graduating at See also:Caius See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he was junior See also:fellow in 1651-1652, he joined See also:Lilburne's See also:regiment as See also:chaplain, and afterwards served in the ranks in See also:Scotland and in the See also:Swedish service, ultimately becoming a See also:captain in See also:Fleetwood's regiment. He then lived for a See also:time in See also:Jamaica, of which he published an See also:account in 1661. In the same See also:year he was ordained by See also:Robert See also:Sanderson, See also:bishop of See also:Lincoln, having already passed through such shades of belief as are connoted by the terms Baptist, Quaker and Deist. From 1662 until his See also:death in 1708 he was See also:vicar of All See also:Saints', See also:Colchester. He was a vigorous pamphleteer, and came into collision with See also:Henry See also:Compton, bishop of See also:London, to whom he had to pay heavy See also:damages for See also:slander in 1682. He made a public recantation in 1654, was excluded from his living in 1685-1688, and ended his career by being convicted for See also:forgery in 1707.

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