686 The HISTORY of the PuJUT.ANs. VoL II. King Corpur Chrifli College in Oxford. He was fon of Sir Francis Staunton Charles 11. b . TIT b · B JU; dU'- · 6 d • ' 1671 , o1na~rrournem e'.for'JrJtrer or, an educatedmWadhamCol!ege, ~ of wh1ch he was fellow. Upon his taking orders, he became minifl:er · O~ Bujhy in Hertfordjhire, but changed it afterwards for Ringfton upon 'lhames. In 1634 he took the degrees in divinity, and in r648 was made preli.dent of Corpus Chrifli College, which he kept till he was fi– lenced for non-conformity. He then retired to Rickmmifworth in Hert– Jordjbire, and afterwards to a village in that county called Bovingden, where he preached as often as he had opportunity. He was a learned, pious, and peaceable divine. In his !ail: ficknefs he fa id, he neither fear– ed death nor defired life, but was willing to be at God's difpofal. He died July f4, 167 r, and was buried in the church belonging to the parifh. Mr. Va~;a/or Powel was born in Radnorjhire, and educated in Jifus .tfnd of Mr. College Oxon. When he left the univerfity he preached up and down P Vavaf<1or in Wales, till being driven from thence for want of prefbyter1al ordinaowe ' · 1· h h r I d h twn, w 11c e 1cmp e , e came to London, and foon after fettled at Dartfird in Kent. In the year 1 646 he obtained a teilimonial of his religious and blamelefs converfation, and of his abilities for the work of the miniilry, figned by Mr. Herle and feventeen of the atfembly of di– vines. Furnifhed with thefe tefl:imonials he returned to lFales, and be– came a moll: indefatigable and atl:ive inilrument of propagating the gofpel in thofe parts. There were few, if any of the churches or chapels in Wales, in which he did not preach; yea very often he preach– ed to the poor welch in the mountains, at fairs, and in market-places; for which he had no more than a fl:ipcnd of one hundred pounds per annum, befides the advantage of fome fequefl:ered livings in north Wales (fays my author), which in thofe times of confufion turned to a very poor account. Mr. Powel was a bold man, and of republican principles, preaching againfl: the proteCforjhip if Crom1vell, and writ letters to him, for which he was imprifoned, to prevent his fpreading ditfaffetl:ion in the fiate. At the dawn of the refl:oration, being known to be a fifth monarchy man, he was fecured firfl: at Shre7vjbury, afterwards inWales, and at !ail: in the Fleet. In the year r662 he was fhut up in South Sea cafl:le near Portfmouth, where he continued five years. In 1667 he was releafed, but venturing to preach again in his own country, he was imprifoned atCard!fl, and in the year I 669 fent up to London, and confined a prifoner in the Fleet, where he died, and was buried in Bunhilf.fields, in the prefence ·of an innumerable croud of ditfenters, who attended him to his grave. He was of an unconquered refolution, and of a mind unfhaken under all his troubles; The infcription on his tomb calls him, " a fuccefsful « teacher of the pail:, a fincere witnefs of the prefent, and an ufeful cc example to the future age; who in the defeCtion of many, found mer- " cy
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