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In 1660 Ellwood was divinely inspired, according to his own account, to write and print an attack on the established clergy entitled An Alarm to the Priests.
He later visited London and met George Fox the younger.
About November 1660 Ellwood invited a Quaker from Oxford named Thomas Loe to attend a meeting at Crowell.
Loe was at the time in prison in Oxford Castle, and Ellwood's letter fell into the hands of Lord Falkland, lord-lieutenant of the county.
A party of horse was sent to arrest him: he was taken before two justices of the peace at Weston, refused to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and was imprisoned for some months at Oxford in the house of the city marshal, a linendraper in High Street named Galloway.
His father secured his release and tried to keep him from Quaker meetings.
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