MORGAN ap HUW LEWYS (fl. c. 1550-1600), poet
Child: Elin ferch Morgan ap Huw Lewys
Parent: Huw ap Lewys
Gender: Male
Occupation: poet
Area of activity: Poetry
Author: Ray Looker
Of Hafod-y-wern in the parish of Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire; son of the chief constable of the commote of Uwch Gwyrfai in 1548 (and not the son of Huw Lewys of Plas-yn-Bont, translator of Perl Mewn Adfyd, as some people have thought). Apparently Tryfan and its surrounds were the homes of Huw ap Lewys and his children, and it was probably through marriage that Morgan became resident at Hafod-y-Wern; later the place went from another branch of the family and became part of the Llanfair-is-gaer estate. It is not certain whether the poet was the Morgan ap Huw Lewys who received holy orders in 1580, and who was patronized by Wiliam Glyn of Glynllifon. If so, then he may have been chaplain to Wiliam Glyn for a short period before marrying and settling in Hafod-y-wern. The name Morgan ap Huw Lewys is entered in the list of jurors for 1586. Information remains concerning only one child of the poet - Elin, who married John Griffith of Madryn Isaf. His poetry, which remains in MSS., includes several religious and moral poems (cywyddau) and elegiac englynion to Huw ap Rhisiart of Cefn Llanfair in Llŷn (NLW MS 16B ).
Author
- Ray Looker
- Bodewryd MS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 1
- Additional Manuscript in the British Museum 14889
- Cardiff Manuscripts 21, 23, 43, 47, 64, 84
- NLW Archives: Cwrtmawr MS 21B, Cwrtmawr MS 114B, Cwrtmawr MS 454B
- Jes. Coll. MS. at the Bodleian Library, Oxford 16, ii
- NLW Archives: Llanstephan MS 124: Poetry
- NLW Archives: Llanstephan MS 125: Poetry
- NLW Archives: NLW MS 3057D
- NLW MS 16B, NLW MS 695E, NLW MS 5273D, NLW MS 5546B, NLW MS 6209E, NLW MS 6499B, NLW MS 7191B, NLW MS 7892B, NLW MS 9166B, NLW MS 11087B, NLW MS 11567D
- NLW Archives: Peniarth MS 73: Barddoniaeth
- NLW Archives: Peniarth MS 112: Llyfr cywyddau Siôn ap William ap Siôn
- NLW Archives: Peniarth MS 119: Letters of Robert Joseph of Evesham
- Wynnstay Manuscript at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 6
- J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families (1914), 243, 389
- W. Gilbert Williams, in Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, 1940, 243
- W. Gilbert Williams, in Caernarvonshire Historical Society Transactions, 1944, 48
- A. Ivor Pryce, The Diocese of Bangor in the sixteenth century being a digest of the registers of the bishops, A.D. 1512-1646 (1923), 60, 61
Sources
- Wikidata: Q20733933
Additional Links
Published date: 1959
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