[1] During the First English Civil War he fought on the side of the Roundheads, serving in Robert Lilburne's regiment as a chaplain, as a soldier in Scotland and in the Swedish service, ultimately becoming a captain in Charles Fleetwood's regiment.
[2] In 1661 he was ordained by Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln, having already changed his beliefs several times and been a Baptist, Quaker and Deist.
For two or three generations of English Jamaicans, the pamphlet continued to support and confirm their own self-image.
[4] According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Hickeringill was "a vigorous pamphleteer, and came into collision with Henry Compton, Bishop of London, to whom he had to pay heavy damages for slander in 1682.
He made a public recantation in 1684, was excluded from his living in 1685–1688, and ended his career by being convicted of forgery in 1707.