Edward Finch (divine)

On 9 December 1630 Edward was admitted to the vicarage of Christ Church, Newgate, London.

Walker celebrates him as the first of the parochial clergy actually dispossessed by the committee for scandalous ministers.

The articles against him allege that he had set up the communion table altarwise, and preached in a surplice; they also detail a list of charges more or less affecting his character.

Finch died soon after his sequestration; his successor, William Jenkyn, was admitted on 1 February 1642, "per mort.

This pamphlet has a woodcut of Finch, and a cut representing his journey to Hammersmith with a party of alleged loose characters.