Corrections and additions:
MORGAN ELFAEL
(
fl.
c.
1528-1541
),
poet
.
A number of his poems remain in manuscript including some written to members of
South Wales
landed families,
Sir
John
Mathew
of
Radur
(Radyr)
,
Sioned
, the daughter of
Sir
Thomas
Philipps
of
Picton castle
, and
Lewys
Gwynn
of
Tref Esgob
. A number of his poems to
Gruffudd
Dwn
(of
Ystrad Merthyr
) and his family are also found, two of them being in holograph (
Llanst. MS. 40 (73, 74)
).
Bibliography:
-
Cardiff Manuscripts
7, 13;
-
Llanstephan MSS. at the National
Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
7, 40, 133, 134;
-
Merthyr Tydfil Manuscript
;
-
National Library of Wales
Manuscripts
970, 1591, 6511, 13062;
-
Pen. MSS. at the National Library of Wales,
Aberystwyth
79, 114.
-
(The dates given him in
‘Dictionary of Welsh Biography.’ 27
vols., N.L.W. MSS. 9251–77
,
Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of
Eminent Welshmen
, 1852
and
William Owen Pughe
,
The Cambrian Biography
(later ) , 1803
, are too late).
Author:
Miss Ray Looker, (Mrs Ray Morgan), Cardiff / Rhymni
