Robert Wylde

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert Wild (Wylde) (1609-1679) was an English clergyman and poet, ejected from his living in 1662. Despite presbyterian views, Wild was a royalist in politics. John Dryden called him 'the Wither of the city.' He wrote extensively, often anonymously and controversially. He was son of Robert Wild, a shoemaker of St. Ives, Huntingdonshire. After a private school at St. Ives, he was admitted a sizar at St. John's College, Cambridge, on 26 January 1632, and was chosen scholar in 1634. He graduated B.A. at the beginning of 1636, M.A. in 1639, and B.D. of Oxford on 1 November 1642. He was created D.D. per litteras regias on 9 November 1660.