Despite his presbyterian views, Wild held royalist in political beliefs and was eventually evicted from the position in 1662.. John Dryden called him 'the Wither of the city.'
[2] As a youth, Wild held strong Puritan beliefs, and was appointed to the living of Aynhoe, Northamptonshire, by order of the House of Commons on 22 July 1646.
Wild's reputation for his wit and controversial views gave his friend a renowned theologian Richard Baxter so much discomfort that he visited Aynhoe, intending to rebuke him.
He lived at Aynhoe a year or two after 1662, supported amongst others by Sir John Baber, physician to King Charles II, to whom, for a timely gift of ten crowns, Wild addressed The Grateful Nonconformist (1665).
A poem appreciating the Successful and Matchless March of the Lord General George Monk from Scotland to London.