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Wildman was born to Jeffrey and Dorothy Wildman in the Norfolk town of Wymondham around 1621.
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Excerpt from The Pretender an Impostor: Being That Part of the Memorial From the English Protestants to Their Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Orange, Concerning Their Grievances, and the Birth of the Pretended Prince of Wales It was a Prieft's invention and management, to Tet up Lambert Symnel, a Baker's Son, againit King Hy. Counterfeiting him to be Earl of Warwick, who laid claim to the Crown, and was proclaimed King in Ireland, and marched into England with a good Ar my to maintain his Pretence. And'by the like advice Perkin mikes/t, another,counterfeit, was fet up a. Gaini'r the fame H. 7. By Margaret Dutchels of Bar gandy, to be Rickard the younger Son of Edna 4. And made inch a coufiderable party in Ireland, and was (0 received and a?il'ted in Scotland, that he bid fair for the Crown. And we could not forget what a cheat ing trick the jefuits invented and praftifed of later years about procuring an Heir to a Crown that is be come their chiefiupport in Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Wildman was born to Jeffrey and Dorothy Wildman in the Norfolk town of Wymondham around 1621.
He was educated at the university of Cambridge, and during the Civil War served for a short time under Sir Thomas Fairfax.
He became prominent, however, not as a soldier but as an agitator, being in 1647 one of the leaders of that section of the army which objected to all compromise with the king.
In a pamphlet, Putney Projects, he attacked Cromwell; he was responsible for The Case of the Army stated, and he put the views of his associates before the council of the army at a meeting in Putney church in October 1647.
The authorities looked upon him with suspicion, and in January 1648 he and John Lilburne were imprisoned, preparations, says Clarendon, being made "for bis trial and towards his execution. "
However, he was released in the following August, and for a time he was associated with the party known as the levellers, but he quickly severed his connexion with them and became an officer in the army.
He was a large buyer of the land forfeited by the royalists, and in 1654 he was sent to the House of Commons as member for Scarborough. In the following year he was arrested for conspiring against Cromwell, and after his release four months later he resumed the career of plotting, intriguing alike with royalists and republicans for the overthrow of the existing regime.
In 1659 he helped to seize Windsor castle for the Long Parliament, and then in November 1661 he was again a prisoner on some suspicion of participating in republican plots. For six years he was a captive, only regaining his freedom after the fall of Clarendon in October 1667.
He was undoubtedly concerned in the Rye House Plot, and under James II he was active in the interests of the duke of Monmouth, but owing to some disagreements, or perhaps to his cowardice, he took no part in the rising of 1685. He found it advisable, however, to escape to Holland, and returned to England with the army of William of Orange in 1688.
Nevertheless, he was knighted by William III in 1692, and he died on the 2nd of June 1693.
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In the late 1650s Wildman was associated with the Commonwealth Club, a Republican club meeting at a Covent Garden tavern called The Nonsuch in Bow Street. He was also in 1659 a member of James Harrington's Rota Club, a Republican debating club which determined its decisions by ballot.
Quotations: By his will, according to the epitaph on his monument in St. Andrew's parish church, Wildman directed: "that if his executors should think fit there should be some stone of small price set near to his ashes, to signify, without foolish flattery, to his posterity, that in that age there lived a man who spent the best part of his days in prisons, without crimes, being conscious of no offence towards man, for that he so loved his God that he could serve no man's will, and wished the liberty and happiness of his country and all mankind".
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Baron Macaulay was less favourable. After describing a fanatical hatred to monarchy as the mainspring of Wildman's career, he adds:
"With Wildman's fanaticism was joined a tender care for his own safety. He had a wonderful skill in grazing the edge of treason. … Such was his cunning, that though always plotting, though always known to be plotting, and though long malignantly watched by a vindictive government, he eluded every danger, and died in his bed, after having seen two generations of his accomplices die on the gallows".
Wildman's first wife was Frances, daughter of Sir Francis Englefield, and his second was Lucy, daughter of "Lord Lovelace". Wildman had a son, John, who married Eleanor, daughter of Edward Chute of Bethersden, Kent, in 1676, and died childless in 1710, though he made John Shute, later Viscount Barrington, his chief heir, particularly of Beckett Hall, which the elder Wildman had bought in 1657 from the regicide Henry Marten.
