PARK (or PARKES), JAMES (1636-1696), Quaker;
he was possibly b. in the Welshpool or Wrexham district or at least lived there for a period, and was one of the Independents of the one or the other — more probably Wrexham. He became a Quaker, and itinerated for the Friends here and abroad. He visited Wales in March 1662/3, and on 9 March (at Wrexham) wrote A Lamentation and Warning … to all the Professors in North Wales, especially to those about Wrexham … and Welsh-Pool, … whom formerly I have known and walked with in a fellowship and worship — an appeal to his Nonconformist friends to ‘seek the light.’ This work does not appear in the list of his (seventeen) works, and he never published it; but he left a copy of it at Cloddiau Cochion, and Richard Davies (1635-1708) (q.v.) incorporated it in his own autobiography. Park died at Southwark, 11 or 12 Nov. 1696, aged 60. The D.N.B. has an article on him, with a list of his works.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D., F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor.
