Portrait of One Evins a Welch man was lately comited to New Gate for saying hee was Christ (4670716) (cropped)

Arise Evans (or Rhys or Rice Evans) (1607–c.1660), was a

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prophet and fanatic.

Personal history

Evans was born about 1607 in Llangelynin parish and was apprenticed to a tailor at Wrexham. While living in Wales he had seen visions and prophetic dreams which were accentuated when he went to London in 1629. In London he made vain efforts to warn King Charles I of perceived dangers, but succeeded in telling the

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to his face of his future promotions. Evans became interested in the multifarious sects that flourished under the new liberty of Charles I's reign, opposing most of them, especially the tenets of the

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. He took particular offence towards

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and

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. He was arrested and imprisoned in ~1650 at

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for impersonating Christ.https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0308-253 - (British museum #1851,0308.253)

References

External links

The Bloody Vision of John Farley by Arise Evans
at the Ex-Classics Web Site 1607 births 1660 deaths 17th-century Welsh people Prophets {{Wales-bio-stub