Welsh Journals

RADNORSHIRE CLERGY DISPOSSESSED DURING THE CIVIL WARS. (A. D. Powell). THE names that follow are those of the Radnorshire Clergy who were ejected from their livings by the Cromwellian government during and after the Civil Wars. They are taken from a book that made a great stir when it appeared, The Sufferings of the Clergy, written by the Rev. John Walker, M.A., and published in 1714. In some cases further details are given of the previous or subsequent liv- ings held by these incumbents, which it has not been thought necessary to reproduce here when they do not concern Radnorshire. Anyone specially interested in the subject is recommended to examine the book itself, in the British Museum or elsewhere, as this article is intended only to indicate the scope of the ejections and to record the names, in order to assist those interested in a particular family or parish. It should be remembered that the dispossessions were made on purely political grounds and that the accusations levelled against the parsons concerned should not be considered in any way proved. Their crime was primarily loyalty to the King; and, if it was not possible to blacken their reputations in any other way, they were expelled on that ground alone. About twenty-six livings in Radnorshire were sequestrated, a large number considering the size of the county, and the expropriations were valued as follows 1650, £ 1010.13.4 1651, £ 784. 1657, £ 733.6.4 Walker says. however, that these sums do not represent the real value of the revenues. The following incumbents were dispossessed ADAMS, (no parish named). He was the father to Mr. Adams who is mentioned at Totness in Devon. I am informed that he was a suffering Minister in these times, etc.