HUW ap RHISIART ap DAFYDD
(
fl.
second half of 16th cent.
), of
Cefn Llanfair
,
Llŷn, Caerns.
,
bard
,
father of the more famous
bard
Richard
Hughes
(d.
1618
) (q.v.)
. In
N.L.W. MS. 16 (239)
are six
englynion
composed by the
bard
when he was imprisoned in
London
(with other men from
Llŷn
) in the time of trouble with the
earl of Leicester
over
Forest of Snowdon
lands, whilst in
N.L.W. Glyn Davies MS. 2 (15)
and
Mostyn MS. 145 (203)
is an elegy on
John
Smith
,
Caernarvon
. Other examples (or copies) of his poems are in
N.L.W. MS. 5272 (102)
;
Mostyn MSS. 131 (50), 144 (466), 145 (641, 644, 738)
;
Cardiff MS. 8 (255)
;
Cwrtmawr MSS. 14 (69), 114 (277)
;
Wynnstay MS. 6 (143)
;
Brogyntyn MS. 4 (59, 63)
, etc. He must not be confused with
Huw Lleyn
(or
Llŷn
)
(q.v.)
.
Bibliography:
-
J. E. Griffith
,
Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire
Families
, 1914
, 224-5;
-
J. Jones (‘Myrddin Fardd’)
,
Cynfeirdd Llyn, 1500-1800 sef casgliad o
ganiadau Wiliam Lleyn
, Pwllheli, 1905
.
Author:
Sir William Llewelyn Davies, M.A., LL.D., F.S.A. (1887-1952),
Aberystwyth
