Walter Prossor, William Millman, Watkin Jones, Morgan Jones, Jenkin Jones, Ellis Rowland, and Roderick Thomas, were ministers in various parts of Wales.
The following ministers, whose names are inserted by Mr. Ivimey in his list of ejected Baptists (History of Baptists, i. 328), did not become Baptists till after their ejectment; viz., Francis Bamfield, A.M., John Gosnold, Thomas Hardcastle, Laurence Wise, and Thomas Paxford.—The Great Ejectment of 1662, by Dr. Cramp.
[236] Not exactly the same controversy as that about open and strict communion.
[237] These statements are made on the authority of a speech delivered before the Master of the Rolls, in the important case reported in a volume compiled by the Rev. George Gould, and entitled Open Communion and the Baptists of Norwich. This book is full of curious information.
[238] For a vindication of Vavasour Powell's religious character—who, with all his extravagant opinions on prophecy, seems to have been a most disinterested and zealous man—see Rees' Nonconformity in Wales, and the authorities to which he refers, 114.
[239] Evan's Early English Baptists, ii. 183.
[240] Burnet's Own Times, i. 58.
[241] Perfect Diurnal. Oct. 25th, 1652.
[242] Whitelocke. A. D. 1652, p. 553.
See Evan's Early English Baptists, ii. 215.