IEUAN ap IEUAN ap MADOG
(
fl.
1547-1587
),
scribe
.
The first record of him is in
1547
, when he bought a tenement called ‘
Tire Nant y Krynwyth
’ in the parish of
Llangynwyd, Glam.
At that time, he resided in the parish of
Betws
, near
Bridgend
, where his father and brothers
held farms
. He belongs to an important group of
scribes
who flourished in
Glamorgan
at the
end of the 16th cent.
In
1574
, he wrote
Llanst. MS. 171
, which contains a collection of
Welsh
prose texts, including the story of
Owen ab Urien
, the
Seven Sages of Rome
, and the story of the rudderless ship (‘
Y Llong Foel
’). He also copied
Llanst. MS. 178
, an incomplete
Welsh
version of the
English
Voyage of the Wandering Knight
.
Egerton
Phillimore
(q.v.)
dated this manuscript at about
1575
, but, as
William
Goodyear
's
English
version of
Jehan de
Cartheny
's
Le Voyage du Chevalier errant
(printed at
Antwerp
,
1557
) was first published in
1581
, the
Welsh
version must be placed later. Other papers by
Ieuan ap Ieuan
were at one time sewn in the binding of this manuscript. They were taken out during the last cent., and are preserved at the
National Library
(
N.L.W. MS. 280
and
Lloyd Verney Document 20
). They include a
Llangynwyd
assessment of
1584
, copies of prayers, ‘
Curig's Hymn
,’ and genealogical memoranda on the
scribe
's ancestry. With them also is a bond from
Ieuan ap Ieuan
to
Anthony
Powel
(q.v.)
of
Llwydarth
,
1587
.
Bibliography:
-
The National Library of Wales Journal
, i, 229-30;
-
G. T. Clark
,
Cartae et Alia Munimenta quae ad Dominium de
Glamorgan pertinent
. Second ed., 1910
, v, 1974-5;
-
W. de Gray Birch
,
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Penrice and
Margam Abbey Manuscripts in the possession of Miss Talbot
of Margam
, London, 1893-1905
, iii, 24-9, iv, 189.
Author:
Evan David Jones, F.S.A., (1903-87), Aberystwyth
