Background
Wild was the son of Robert Wild, a shoemaker of Saint Ives, Huntingdonshire.
Wild was the son of Robert Wild, a shoemaker of Saint Ives, Huntingdonshire.
He graduated as a Bachelor of Arts at the beginning of 1636, an Master of Arts
John Dryden called him "the Wither of the city." He wrote extensively, often anonymously and controversially. After a private school education at Saint Ives, he was admitted as a sizar to Saint John"s College, Cambridge, on 26 January 1632, and was made a scholar in 1634. in 1639, and Bachelor of Divinity of Oxford on 1 November 1642. He was made a Doctor of Divinity per litteras regias on 9 November 1660.
However, after having sat in the corner of the church, and listened to his sermon, he changed his mind and instead asked Wilde to rebuke him sharply, for having listened to the reports! Wilde was ejected by the Acting of Uniformity 1662.
He lived at Aynhoe a year or two after 1662, supported amongst others by Sir John Baber, Charles II"s physician, to whom, for a timely gift of ten crowns, Wild addressed The Grateful Nonconformist (1665). Later Wild was living at Oundle.
He was indicted in July 1669 at Warwick and Coventry assizes for keeping a conventicle. He died at Oundle of a fit of apoplexy, and was buried there on 30 July 1679.