GEMMS IDGEMMS-PERSON-001329
NameWilliam Sedgwick
Title
Gendermale
Denomination
Livedb. ca. 1609-08-17 - d. ca. 1663-12-01 (old)
Linked Manuscripts
Linked SermonsHow to behaue ourselues after Grace Receaued -- preacher (autograph: no)Meanes for ye obtayneing of true grace -- preacher? (autograph: no)
Linked Reports
Source of DataJeanne Shami; Adam Richter
Biographical Sources ConsultedODNB (Article: 25019); Kinda Skea, in her 2015 University of Leicester Dissertation, The Ecclesiastical Identities of Puritan and Nonconformist Clergy,1640-1672, used him as her example of "multiple identity" among Nonconformists (p. 7).
Other NoteSon of William Sedgwick (d. 1632). Date of birth unknown, but he was baptized on 17 August 1609. Died between the end of November 1663 and the end of February 1664. B.A. (1628) and M.A. (1631) from Pembroke College, Oxford. Rector of Farnham, Essex, 1635-1643. A second example of multiple identity is the eccentric William Sedgwick. While rector at
Farnham, Essex, Sedgwick stood in opposition to Laud’s form of Arminian doctrine, thereby
aligning himself with the Puritans. He participated in the Durham Classis of Presbyterian elders
and ministers. Sedgwick also associated with the Quakers and Muggletonians later in his life.
Church of England records indicate that he conformed back to the Church and became rector of
Mattishall Burgh, Norfolk in 1663, shortly before his death.
GEMMS record createdMarch 23, 2017
GEMMS record last editedMay 06, 2019