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See also: POWELL, VAVASOR (1617-1670) , Welsh See also:Nonconformist, was by See also:birth a See also:Radnorshire See also:man and was educated at Jesus See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. About 1639 he entered upon the career of an itinerant preacher, and for See also:preaching in various parts of See also:Wales he was twice arrested in 164o; however, he was not punished and during the See also:Civil See also:War he preached in and around See also:London. In 1646, when the victory of the See also:parliamentary cause was assured, Powell returned to Wales, having received a certificate of See also:character from the See also:Westminster See also:Assembly, although he had refused to be ordained by the Presbyterians. With a See also:salary granted to him by See also:parliament he resumed his itinerant preaching in Wales. In 165o parliament appointed a See also:commission " for the better See also:propagation and preaching of the See also:gospel in Wales," and Powell acted as one of the See also:principal advisers of this See also:body. For three years he was actively employed in removing from their parishes those ministers whom he regarded as incompetent. In 1653 he returned to London, and having denounced See also:Cromwell for accepting the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:Lord See also:Protector he was imprisoned. At the Restoration in 1660 he was arrested for preaching, and after a See also:short See also:period of freedom he was again seized, and he remained in See also:prison for seven years. He was set See also:free in 1667, but in the following See also:year he was again a prisoner, and he was in custody when he died on the 27th of See also:October 1670. Powell wrote several See also:treatises and also some See also:hymns, but his See also:chief gifts were those of a preacher.
See The See also:Life and See also:Death of Mr Vavasor Powell (1671), attributed to See also:Edward Bagshaw the younger; Vavasoris Examen et Purgamen (1654), by E. See also:- ALLEN, BOG OF
- ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
- ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
- ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
- ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
- ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)
Allen and others; D. See also: Neal, See also:History of the Puritans (1822); and T. See also:Rees, History of See also:Protestant See also:Nonconformity in Wales (1861).
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