returned to London to preach at St Ann Blackfriars after the death of their pastor, William Gouge. Having denounced Cromwell for accepting the office of Lord Protector, he was imprisoned. At the Restoration, on 18 July 1660, the Council of King Charles II issued an order to Sir Matthew Price, High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire to take into safe custody Vavasour Powell (described as, "a most factious and dangerous minister"), Sir Richard Saltonstall, and Richard Price of Aberbechan. According to Price's letters to Secretary of State Edward Nicholas, Vavasour Powell, Saltonstall and Price were concerned in a plot to depose King Charles II. Letters were found in their possession indicating the plot extended all the way to London. By 2 August 1660 Vavasour Powell was taken into custody, while Sir Richard Saltonstall and Captain Richard Price "had left these parts" (Montgomeryshire). Powell remained in prison for seven years. He was imprisoned at Southsea Castle in September 1667. He was set free in 1667, but in the following year he was again imprisoned and was in custody until his death on 27 October 1670. Powell is buried at Bunhill Fields cemetery in London. Work Powell wrote eleven books and some hymns but his chief gifts were those of a preacher. During his ministry he preached before the Lord Mayor of London (1649), Parliament (1650) and as an ardent defender of Calvinism held disputations with popular Arminians of his day. While remaining a relatively minor figure in seventeenth-century Puritan history since his death, Powell's place in the Puritan movement has been reassessed in recent years. The twentieth-century Welsh theologian R. Tudur Jones wrote of Powell: Vavasor Powell deserves better of historians than to be dismissed as a millenarian enthusiast. In many ways, Powell was the most striking personality amongst the Welsh Puritans. That estimation has been heeded as Powell has been the subject of doctoral dissertations as well as several peer reviewed papers and presentations. Powell has emerged as a leading case study for the right wing elements of seventeenth century English Non Conformity and their relationship to the larger Puritan movement. Writing and hymns Writing and hymns by Powell include the following: Written work in English The Scriptures Concord, London, 1646 God the Father glorified, London, 1649 Christ and Moses Excellency, London, 1650 Saving faith, London, 1651 Christ exalted, 1651 Three Hymns, London, 1650 Common-Prayer Book on divine service, London, 1660 The