Joshua Sprigg

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Joshua Sprigg or Sprigge (Banbury, 1618-1684) was an English Independent theologian and preacher. He acted as chaplain to Sir Thomas Fairfax, general for the Parliamentarians, and wrote or co-wrote the 1647 book Anglia Rediviva[1][2][3], a history of the part played up to that time by Fairfax's army in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.[4]

He studied at New Inn Hall, Oxford, and took an M. A. at the University of Edinburgh. He then became a parish priest in London, at the church of St. Pancras, Soper Lane. He later was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, imposed by Parliament after their victory.

Some contemporary scholarship also attributes to him the authorship of the anonymous pamphlet Ancient Bounds from 1645[5], a major work of the period on freedom of conscience; this had previously been thought to be from the pen of Francis Rous.

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  1. ^ [1], title page and some lists from content.
  2. ^ [2], library entry, attribution also to Nathaniel Fiennes.
  3. ^ PDF, battle report for Langport 1645, with extended quote.
  4. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
  5. ^ Barbara Kiefer, The Authorship of "Ancient Bounds", Church History, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Sep., 1953), pp. 192-196.

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