William Dell

William Dell (c. 1607–1669) was an English clergyman, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1649 to 1660, and prominent radical Parliamentarian.

[15] He was an opponent of the Ranters;[16] but also of enforced uniformity of worship, citing Martin Luther against it[17] He was attacked as a libertine,[18] and thought to tend to antinomianism.

as well as Cokayne and Bunyan.He preached the doctrine of free grace,[21] and subscribed to the idea of continuous revelation;[22] and is included in those considered preachers of the Everlasting Gospel.

[26] He was strongly against the Aristotelian tradition persisting in the universities, and discounted all classical learning;[27] and expressed broad anti-intellectual attitudes.

[40] A 1667 pamphlet of his, The Increase of Popery in England, was suppressed and appeared only in 1681;[41] Hill calls this anti-Catholic attack 'partly a political gambit'[42]