Information on Will. Sedgwick

Information on Will. SEDGWICK From Genealogical Gleanings In England p. 260 WILL. SEDGWICK, Son of William Sedgwick of London, Gen. became a Commoner in Pembroke Coll. Oxon. in Michaelmas Term A. 1624, aged 15 years. Having taken his Degrees and H. Orders he was admitted into this Church [Farnham] at the Presentation of two of his Relations* in 1634, where he behav’d himself conformable to the Ch. of England; but upon the turn of the times in 1641 he clos’d with the Presbyterians; after the Loyal Clergy had been ejected from their Livings he became the chief preacher in Ely and was called the Apostle of that Isle. What he enjoy’d there and elsewhere, for several Years, he lost after the King’s Restauration, by Non-Conformity. He was a conceited whimsical Person and one very unsettled in his Opinions; sometimes he was a Presbyterian, sometimes an Independent, and at other times an Anabaptist, sometimes he was a Prophet, and at other times pretended to Revelations; and unpon pretence of a Vision that Doomsday would be some Day next Week; whence he was afterwards call’d Doomsday Sedgwick; after the Resturation he lived mostly at Lewesham in Kent. In 1668 he retired to London, where he soon after dy’d.
Ath. Ox. Vol. II. p. 335 Newcourt’s Repertorium, &c. II. 256.

* He was presented to the living, Feb. 5, 1634-5, by Stephen and John Sedgwick (see Newcourt, II. 256, and Bliss’s ed. of Wood’s Athenae Oxonicnses, III 894). The latter work contains a good sketch of William Sedgwick’s life, with a list of his publications. Wood and Newcourt (ubi supra) and Palmer (Nonconformist’s Memorial, London, 1778, I. 248) are in error in placing his death after 1668. - EDITOR