Obs. Also 6 Swinke-, 7 Suenc(k)-, Swenckfeldian, Swinkfieldian, 3 Swinfeildian. = SCHWENKFELDIAN.
1564. Dorman, Proofe Cert. Articles Relig., 133. Be they Swenckfeldians, be they if yow list Dauid georgians.
1579. Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 232. The Swinkefeldians, Anabaptistes, Libertines, Henrinicolaites.
1637. Gillespie, Engl. Pop. Cerem., III. viii. 143. Anabaptisticall or Swenckfeldian-like enthysiasmes.
1677. Gilpin, Dæmonol. (1867), 166. The Swinkfieldians assumed the title of ‘the Confessors of the Glory of Christ.’
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 289. A few of the German inhabitants … styled Swinseildians [sic].
