Arise Evans
{{Short description|Welsh prophet}}
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|image=Portrait of One Evins a Welch man was lately comited to New Gate for saying hee was Christ (4670716) (cropped).jpg
|caption=An etching of Rhys 'Arise' Evans
|birth_date=ca. 1607
|birth_place=Llangelynnin, Gwynedd
|death_date=ca. 1660
|death_place=Newgate Prison?
|occupation=Tailor and Christ impersonator
|alias=Rhys/Rice Evans
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Arise Evans (or Rhys or Rice Evans; 1607–c.1660) was a Welsh 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 had prophetic dreams that 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 Earl of Essex to his face of his future promotions.{{cite DWB|id=s-EVAN-ARI-1607 |title=Biography of Arise Evans |author=Richards, Thomas |year=1959 |access-date=1 October 2011}} 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 Fifth Monarchist. He took particular offence towards Christopher Feake and William Aspinwall.
He was arrested and imprisoned in ~1650 at Newgate Prison for impersonating Christ.https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0308-253 - (British museum #1851,0308.253)
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.exclassics.com/pamphlets/pamph019.htm The Bloody Vision of John Farley by Arise Evans] at the Ex-Classics Web Site
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Category:17th-century Welsh people
Category:Self-declared messiahs
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