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POWELL, VAVASOR (1617-1670)

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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. 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 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 and others; D.

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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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