Hilkiah Bedford
Hilkiah Bedford (1663–1724) was an English clergyman, a nonjuror and writer, imprisoned as the author of a book really by George Harbin.
Life
He was born in Hosier Lane, near
At the Glorious Revolution he refused to take the oaths to the new monarchs, and was ejected from his living. He then kept a successful boarding house at Westminster for the scholars of Westminster School. He became chaplain to Dr. Thomas Ken, the deprived bishop of Bath and Wells, and began to write. He made a translation of An Answer to Fontenelle's History of Oracles, edited Peter Barwick's Vita Joannis Barwick, and translated it with notes. He published in 1710 a Vindication of the Church of England, and also an Essay on the Thirty-nine Articles.
The book which made Hilkiah Bedford famous was one which he did not write. In 1713 a folio volume was published anonymously, entitled The Hereditary Right of the Crown of England asserted, in an answer to
Notes
- ^ "Bedford, Hilkiah (BDFT679H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Bedford, Hilkiah". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.