Makers of Modern Wales'
1500-1900 by DAVID WILLIAMS , Lecturer in History at the University College,
Cardiff
Lesson 12: 'Vavasor Powell and Stephen Hughes '
Vavasor Powell , the ' Metropolitan of the itinerant preachers ' in the Cromwellian period, is a highly controversial character. To the Puritans of his time and since, he was a heroic soldier-preacher ; to the late
Archbishop of Wales (Dr. Edwards) he was ' part fanatic, part rogue .