'[1651] Almost all the clergy of Wales being ejected as malignants,
itinerant preachers with small salaries were settled, not above 4
or 5 in each county; and these, being furnished with horses at
the public expense, hurried from place to place, and carried, as
they expressed themselves, the glad tidings of the gospel.
They were all of them men of the lowest birth and education, who had
deserted mechanical trades, in order to follow this new
profession. And in this particular, as well as in their wandering
life, they pretended to be more truly apostolical.'