Edmund Chillenden


Edmund Chillenden was an English soldier, known as an agitator and theological writer. At different times he was a Leveller and a Fifth Monarchist.

Life

With 60 others, he was arrested at a religious meeting in London in January 1641 at the house of Richard Sturges. He was a prisoner of war in 1642 in Oxford Castle, and wrote a pamphlet on the terrible conditions of his confinement, against William Smith.
He was an officer in the parliamentary New Model Army, in 1646 a Lieutenant and intelligence officer in Whalley's Regiment. He was on the army's General Council in 1647, and a supporter of the Levellers.
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Works

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