LEWYS, DAFYDD (died 1727), of Llanllawddog, Carmarthenshire, a cleric

Best known today as the publisher of Flores Poetarum Britannicorum, 1710, and as the author of Golwg ar y Byd, 1725. He became vicar of Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, Glamorganshire, 21 August 1718, and was buried there 21 April 1727.

He was at Llanllawddog in 1710; a person of that name was curate of Llanllawddog and Llanpumpsaint in 1715-6 and was ordained priest 1 November 1715. He was also the author of Bwyd Enaid 1723, a book of stanzas based on verses from the Bible, and was among those responsible for printing Gemmeu Doethineb by Rhys Prydderch, 1714, Llythyr at y Cyfryw o'r Byd …, 1716, and probably Pregeth a Bregethwyd … Mehefin y 7, 1716 … Gan … Gwilim Arglwydd Esgob Ely 1716. A hymn by him was included in a booklet printed by Nicholas Thomas, Carmarthen, 1740, and another of his compositions may be found in Blodeu-gerdd Cymry, 1759. NLW MS 4563B: David Lewis: Golwg ar y Byd mawr... contains the original manuscript of Golwg ar y Byd.

Author

• Rhiannon Francis Roberts, (1923 - 1990)

Sources

• D. Rhys Phillips, The History of the Vale of Neath (Swansea 1925), 79-80
• G. J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg (1948), 262-3
• Ifano Jones, A history of printing and printers in Wales to 1810, and of successive and related printers to 1923 (Cardiff 1925), 42, 47
• Garfield Hughes, Bywyd a gwaith Iaco ap Dewi (Prifysgol Cymru 1939), M.A. thesis

Works

• William Fleetwood, James Davies (translator), Dafydd Lewys (ed.), Pregeth a bregethwyd ynghapel Ty-Ely yn Holbourn yn Llundein, ar Ddydd Merchur ym Mehefin y 7, 1716. Sef Dydd y Diolchgarwch Cyhoeddus am fendith Duw ar gynghorion ac arfeu ei fawrhydi yn llonyddu y gwrthryfel annaturiol diweddar (Mwythig 1716)

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20732747

Published date: 1959

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