William Erbery

William Erbery or Erbury (1604 – April 1654) was a Welsh clergyman and radical Independent theologian.

Erbery was born in Glamorganshire. He graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford, England in 1623.

He was ejected in 1638 from his Cardiff parish of St Mary's, under the Bishop of Landaff who had branded him a schismatic, after several citations before the Court of High Commission. His offence was refusing, along with fellow Dissenters Walter Craddock and William Wroth, to read the Book of Sports. He became chaplain, when the English Civil War broke out in 1642, to the regiment of Philip Skippon in the Parliamentary Army. According to Christopher Hill

From there he retired to the Isle of Ely. He was a Seeker; in Ely he expanded the Seekers in the 1640s.

He expected that a regime of ‘saints’ would (in the later 1640s) carry out God's will in England. He looked to the Army and Cromwell for reforms such as the abolition of tithes and the state church. In 1646 he took part in a high-profile dispute with the orthodox Presbyterian and heresy watchdog Francis Cheynell.

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