Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORRIS-JONES, Sir JOHN (MORRIS) (1864 - 1929), scholar, poet, and critic correctly classified according to stress and symmetry. The final results of his study of the traditional metres were embodied in his book Cerdd Dafod, 1925, the second part of which will long remain the authoritative work on the subject. His interest in prosody also led him to write on Tudur Aled (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1908-9) and Edmund Prys (Gen., 1923), and to
PARRY, JAMES RHYS (fl. 1570?-1625?), poet and author of a Welsh metrical version of the Psalms may have been living at Michael Church Escle, Herefordshire; the dates of his birth and death have not been ascertained. James Parry is remembered because he essayed a metrical version of some of the Psalms in Welsh - in free metre - and because there is evidence that his version was seen by Edmund Prys, archdeacon of Merioneth, before the Salmau by the latter were published in 1621. This
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy character; they are of more value to the historian of religion than as literature. Like Edmund Prys, William Myddelton, Siôn Tudur, Edward Kyffin, and James Parry, all of whom essayed a Welsh metrical version of some of the Psalms, Siôn Phylip wrote a paraphrase of the first psalm. The religious and didactic group contains some interesting poems. One of them, Cywydd y ffenics, appears very often in the
POWEL, MORGAN (fl. c. 1563), poet, one of the Glamorgan writers of cwndidau, a cleric of Llanhari probably one of the Powel family of Tir Iarll (see under Anthony Powel). Apparently he was cleric at Laleston, near Bridgend, c. 1563. Some of his work still exists, including a poem addressed to Wiliam Prys of Briton Ferry, another to reconcile Siôn Mawddwy with Tomas ap Wiliam ap Hywel. He also participated in two bardic controversies or ymrysonau with Llywelyn Siôn and Tomas Llywelyn.
PRICE family Rhiwlas, children included the heir, CADWALADR (Price) (below), Dr. Elis Prys, Plas Iolyn, Denbighshire, Thomas Vaughan, Pant Glas, and two other sons who became abbots of Aberconway (Griffith, Pedigrees, 204). Sir Robert, who became cross-bearer to Cardinal Wolsey, died before or in 1534; his will was proved at the P.C.C. of Canterbury; he also was buried in Ysbyty Ifan church. CADWALADR AP ROBERT CADWALADR
PRICE, Sir JOHN (1502? - 1555), notary public, the king's principal registrar in causes ecclesiastical, and secretary of the Council in Wales and the Marches
PRICE, PETER (1864 - 1940), Independent minister named Tabor. The whole family was associated with Tabor and they claimed that they were from the same lineage as Edmwnd Prys. Peter Price, Dewisbren-isaf was heavily influenced by the Quakers. His parents moved to Plas-y-Brithdir when Thomas Price opened a business selling flour in Dolgellau. For a short time before leaving to help his father, Peter Price was educated at Dolgellau Grammar School, the
PRICE, THEODORE (1570? - 1631), prebendary of Westminster the Church of Rome. Besides the cywydd to Price written by Siôn Phylip there is one by another neighbour, Edmwnd Prys, archdeacon of Merioneth (B. M. Add. MS. 14874; see also T. R. Roberts, Edmwnd Prys). E. D. Jones (in N.L.W. Jnl., v, 234-6) shows that N.L.W. Brogyntyn MS. 2, a ' Book of Welsh Kowydde,' was written by Humphrey Davies, vicar of Darowen, for Theodore Price, then a canon of Winchester
PRYS, EDMUND - see PRYS, EDMWND
PRYS, EDMWND (1544 - 1623), archdeacon of Merioneth, and poet flyting poetry with some of his contemporaries, his best known disputation being with William Cynwal. In reality, this was a clash between the representative of the new English university culture (Prys) and the old Welsh bardic learning (Cynwal). Cynwal would not for a moment admit that Prys was any kind of a poet. Edmund Prys wrote a few cywyddau on religious themes - probably propaganda for the new
PRYS, ELIS (Y Doctor Coch, The Red Doctor; 1512? - 1594) Plas Iolyn, died 8 October 1594. Thomas Prys of Plas Iolyn was his son.
PRYS, JOHN (Philomath; 1739? - 1786?), almanac maker He was a native of Bryneglwys in Yale, and at one time lived at Bryn-y-llwynog, in the parish of Llandysilio, Denbighshire. He published an almanac regularly every year from 1739 to, at least, 1786. Its original name was Wybrenawl Genadwri, but in 1747 he changed it to Dehonglydd y Ser. Although the standard of the almanacs published by John Prys was beneath that of Gwilym Howell's almanacs, they

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