William Freke

William Freke (1662–1744) was an English mystical writer, of Wadham College, Oxford and barrister of the Middle Temple.

Freke first comes to attention as a Socinian Unitarian who suffered at the hands of Parliament in 1694 for his anti-Trinitarian beliefs, and later recanted. William Freke sent his ''Brief but Clear Confutation of the Doctrine of the Trinity'' to both Houses of Parliament, was fined and the book burnt. The same happened the next year to John Smith (1695), a clockmaker who had written a similar pamphlet.

In 1703 he published ''Lingua Tersancta. Or, a Most Sure and Compleat Allegorick Dictionary to the Holy Language of the Spirit.'' Presumably unbalanced, Freke proclaimed himself the great Elijah in 1709. Provided by Wikipedia