Elisha Beadles

Elisha Beadles (1670 - 1734) was an eminent member of the Quaker movement, and a writer. His parents were John Beadles of Kempston, Bedfordshire and his wife, Elizabeth.

His writings include a translation into Welsh of the treatise by his grandfather, Walter Jenkins, entitled, ‘The law given forth out of Zion, etc.’ (c. 1715), under the title, 'Y gyfraith a roddwyd allan o Sion wedi ei gyfieithu i'r Gymraeg er lleshad i bawb', and a preface to Theodor Eccleston's replies to Thomas Andrews, vicar of Llanover, who had written about Quakers to a Pontypool parishioner. In 1720 he sent an account of the beginnings of Quakerism in South Wales to the 'Meeting for Sufferings' in London. He died in 1734.