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William Erbery or Erbury〔Also Earbury.〕 (1604–1654) was a Welsh clergyman and radical Independent theologian. ==Life== Erbery was born in Glamorganshire. He graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford, England in 1623.〔''Concise Dictionary of National Biography''〕 He was ejected in 1638 from his Cardiff parish of St Mary's, under the Bishop of Landaff who had branded him a schismatic,〔CNDB〕 after several citations before the Court of High Commission. His offence was refusing, along with fellow Dissenters Walter Craddock and William Wroth, to read the ''Book of Sports''.〔Hill, ''Change and Continuity in 17th-Century England'', p. 21.〕 He became chaplain, when the English Civil War broke out in 1642, to the regiment of Philip Skippon in the Parliamentary Army. According to Christopher Hill〔''The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution'' (1993), p. 217.〕 From there he retired to the Isle of Ely.〔Hill, English Bible, p. 146.〕 He was a Seeker;〔(); Hill, Change and Continuity p. 229.〕 in Ely he expanded the Seekers in the 1640s.〔Hill, The World Turned Upside Down (Penguin edition) p. 47.〕 He expected that a regime of ‘saints’ would (in the later 1640s) carry out God's will in England.〔Hill, ''Experience of Defeat'', p. 82 names William Sedgwick, Peter Sterry and Joshua Sprigge as highest in Erbery’s estimation.〕 He looked to the Army and Cromwell for reforms such as the abolition of tithes and the state church. In 1646 he took part in a high-profile dispute with the orthodox Presbyterian and heresy watchdog Francis Cheynell. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Erbery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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