A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Bodvell or Bodrell (Peter)
BODVELL or BODRELL (PETER), bookseller in London and Chester. 1664-70. Was apprenticed to Thomas Brewster, q.v., and was one of the witnesses at his trial in February, 1664. [See An Exact Narrative, B.M. 1132, b. 57.] He is mentioned again in some Chancery proceedings brought by the Stationers' Company against certain Chester booksellers in the year 1699. John Minshull, one of the defendants, stated that he was apprenticed to a London bookseller, Mr. Peter Bodrell or Bodvell, who was burnt out in the great fire of 1666, and then removed to Chester, where he died before John Minshull's term of apprenticeship was complete. [Library, 2nd Series, No. 16, pp. 373-83.] Peter Bodrell was associated with Edward Fowkes or Foulkes, q.v., in publishing the Book of Common Prayer in the Welsh tongue in 1664. [Rowlands, Cambrian Bibliography, p. 191.] There is a memorial to a Peter Bodvell in St. Michael's Church, Chester (see Fenwick's History of Chester, 1896, p. 316).