QUARRELL
,
JAMES
(
fl.
1650-1672
),
Puritan preacher, Independent
.
He appears first as one of the
itinerant preachers
who followed
Vavasor
Powell
(q.v.)
in the days of the
Propagation Act
(
1650-3
), as one of
Powell
's
chief apologists
in the
Examen et Purgamen Vavasoris
, and supporting
Powell
in his opposition to
Cromwell
's Protectorate by signing the
Word for God
. Under the ‘
Triers
’ he was a settled
minister
at
Forden, Mont.
With the
Restoration
he was cast into prison at
Welshpool
; under the
Five Mile Act
he had to find a new home, and chose
Shrewsbury
. There, in
1671
, he gave somewhat unheroic advice to
Henry
Maurice
(q.v.)
in his days of crisis, and there, on
22 May 1672
, he received a licence to
preach
under the new
Indulgence
in one of the rooms of the
King's Head
.
Bibliography:
-
Vavasoris Examen et Purgamen or Mr V.
Powell's impartiall triall who being apprehended upon the
late hue and cry raised after him, hath appealed to God and
his country, and is found not guilty
, London,
1654
, 14;
-
Lambeth MS.
989 (58);
-
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic
Series
, Record Publication
, Chas. II, E.B. 38A, 134;
-
Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Nghymru
,
1893–1907
, ii, 395-6;
-
The Nonconformist Memorial; being an Account
of the Lives…and Printed Books of the two thousand
Ministers ejected…
, 1802–3
, iii, 150.
Author:
Thomas Richards, D.Litt., (1878-1962), Bangor
