HICKERINGILL (or HICKHRRNGILL),

See also:

• EDMUND
• EDMUND, SAINT [EDMUND RICE] (d. 1240)
• EDMUND, or EADMUND (c. 980-1016)

EDMUND (1631-1708)  , English divine, lived an eventful life in the days of the Common-wealth and the Restoration . After graduating at Caius College, Cambridge, where he was junior fellow in 1651-1652, he joined Lilburne's regiment as chaplain, and afterwards served in the ranks in Scotland and in the Swedish service, ultimately becoming a captain in 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 passed through such shades of belief as are connoted by the terms Baptist, Quaker and Deist . From 1662 until his death in 1708 he was vicar of All Saints', Colchester . He was a vigorous 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 1654, was excluded from his living in 1685-1688, and ended his career by being convicted for forgery in 1707 .