Edmund Chillenden (

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1631–1678) was an English soldier, known as an agitator and theological writer. At different times he was a

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and a

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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

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, and wrote a pamphlet on the terrible conditions of his confinement, against William Smith. He was an officer in the parliamentary

New Model Army The New Model Army was a standing army formed in 1645 by the Parliamentarians during the First English Civil War, then disbanded after the Stuart Restoration in 1660. It differed from other armies employed in the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Th ...

, 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. Jason Peacey writes of

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He published : *''Preaching without Ordination'', London, 1647.

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wrote a brief answer to this work, appended to his ''Vindication of the Judgment of the Reformed Churches and Protestant Divines from Misrepresentations concerning Ordination and Laying on of Hands'', London 1647. Another reply appeared under the title of ''Church Members set in Joynt, by Filodexter Transilvanus'', (

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), London, 1648. *''Nathan's Parable; with a Letter to his Excellency the Lord General Cromwell'', London, 1653,

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. :s:Chillenden, Edmund (DNB00) *''A true relation of the state of the case between the ever-honourable Parliament and the officers of the Army, that fell out on the eleventh and twelfth of October, 1659'', London 1659. A condemnation of the Army's actions in expelling the

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