John Powell (1645–1713)


John Powell, of Gloucester, was an English politician and lawyer.
He was elected as Member of the Parliament of England for Gloucester in 1685.

Legal career

He was appointed as a Baron of the Exchequer in 1691, and transferred to Common Pleas in 1695 and then to Queen's Bench in 1702. He was the judge at one of England's last witchcraft trials, that of Jane Wenham in 1712.