Joshua Sprigg

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" [ [http://home.wxs.nl/~taylorpj/intro.htm] , title page and some lists from content.] [ [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/1431768] , library entry, attribution also to Nathaniel Fiennes.] [ [http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/langport.pdf PDF] , battle report for Langport 1645, with extended quote.] , a history of the part played up to that time by Fairfax's army in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. ["Concise Dictionary of National Biography"]

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 [Barbara Kiefer, "The Authorship of "Ancient Bounds", Church History, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Sep., 1953), pp. 192-196.] , 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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* [http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/cms-service/download/asset/?asset_id=17282047 "Anglia Rediviva", online text (PDF)]