LEWYS
,
DAFYDD
(d.
1727
), of
Llanllawddog, Carms.
, 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, Glam.
,
21 Aug. 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 Nov. 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
(q.v.)
,
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
.]
N.L.W. MS. 4563
contains the original manuscript of
Golwg ar y Byd
.
Bibliography:
-
D. Rhys Phillips
,
The Hist. of the Vale of Neath
,
Swansea, 1925
,
1925
, 79-80;
-
G. J. Williams
,
Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg
,
1948
,
1948
, 262-3;
-
[
Ifano Jones
,
A history of printing and printers in Wales
to 1810, and of successive and related printers to
1923.
, 1925
,
1925
, 42, 47];
-
M.A. thesis on ‘Iaco ap Dewi’ by
Garfield Hughes
in N.L.W.
Author:
Miss Rhiannon Francis Roberts, M.A., (1923-90), Aberystwyth
