Editing Gilbert Sheldon (section)

==Civil War period==
He was intimate with the Royalist leaders, and participated in the negotiations for the [[Treaty of Uxbridge|Uxbridge]] treaty of 1645.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} During this period he became with [[Henry Hammond]] one of the churchmen closest to the king, and attended him as [[Clerk of the Closet]] in Oxford, later in [[Newmarket, Suffolk]] and finally in the [[Isle of Wight]]. When the parliamentarians occupied Oxford in 1646 he resisted the [[Parliamentary visitation of the University of Oxford|visitation]], but was finally and physically ejected from All Souls in early 1648. Taken into custody, he was to have been imprisoned in [[Wallingford Castle]] with Hammond but the commander was unwilling to have them. He was freed, with restrictions on his movements, later that year.<ref name="DNB" />

He lived quietly for a dozen years in the Midlands, at [[Snelston]] in Derbyshire or with friends in Staffordshire,  [[Nottinghamshire]] and [[Glamorgan]], where he stayed with Sir John Aubrey. He was active in fundraising for the poor clergy and for [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] in exile. He corresponded with Jeremy Taylor, whom he supported, and with Hyde. On the death of John Palmer, whom the visitors had made warden of All Souls' in his place, on 4 March 1659, he was quietly reinstated.<ref name="DNB" />