E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Dooms’day Sedgwick.
William Sedgwick, a fanatical prophet and preacher during the Commonwealth. He pretended to have had it revealed to him in a vision that doomsday was at hand; and, going to the house of Sir Francis Russell, in Cambridgeshire, he called upon a party of gentlemen playing at bowls to leave off and prepare for the approaching dissolution.
