On July 11, 1638 Obadiah Sedgwick married Priscilla Goddard at the parish church, Ogbourne St Andrew. Obadiah Sedgwick was born in 1600, the son of Joseph Sedgwick, vicar at St Peter's, Marlborough. He went on to become lecturer at St Mildred's in the City of Westminster before moving onto a parish in Coggeshall. In 1642 he became chaplain to the regiment of foot raised by Denzil Holles and finally rector at St Paul's, Covent Garden. But these were extraordinary times. It all started to go wrong for Charles I when his best friend forever George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, was assassinated in 1628. Charles had already fallen out with his MPs, dissolving Parliament three times between 1625 and 1629. Add to this inflammatory mix religious upheaval and lo and behold civil war erupted, Charles lost his throne and eventually his head as well. And in the middle of all this we have Obadiah Sedgwick, a Puritan divine and member of the Westminster Assembly, a council of fe...