Political Pamphlets and Sermons from Wales 1790-1806

By (author) Marion Löffler

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Publication date:

01 October 2014

Length of book:

368 pages

Publisher

University of Wales Press

ISBN-13: 9781783161034

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Pamphleteering was a vital component of the popular political discussion opened up by the French Revolution of 1789, but while the English pamphlet wars have been exhaustively explored, Welsh pamphlet literature has been ignored. During the fifteen years following the French Revolution of 1789, over 100 Welsh pamphlets and sermons engaged in a public discourse which discussed the larger issues raised by the Revolution and the war against the French Republic.

This pioneering volume seeks to capture the excitement of the period by demonstrating how radicals and loyalists, Dissenters, Methodists and Churchmen, pacifists and warmongers engaged in a lively argument in their published works. An in-depth essay reviews and interprets texts written by artisans, Dissenting ministers, country curates and Anglican bishops, who all used religion as politics; promoted war or peace; argued over republicanism and loyalism, and utilized the law as a stage for political ideas. All texts are fully translated and thus made accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time.

Introduction Selection of Pamphlets 1 Morgan John Rhys, Cyngor Gamaliel; neu Ddyledswydd Brydain: Mewn Pregeth ar Ddydd Ympryd, Chwefror 28, 1794 (Caerfyrddin: Argraphwyd gan I. Ross, Yn Heol-Awst, 1794) [Morgan John Rhys, Gamaliel’s Counsel; Or Britain’s Duty: In a Sermon on the Fast Day, February 28, 1794 (Carmarthen: Printed by I. Ross, in Heol-Awst, 1794)] 2 John Jones (Glan-y-Gors, Bardd), Seren tan Gwmmwl, Neu Ychydig Sylw ar Frenhinoedd, Escobion, Arglwyddi &c. a Llywodraeth Lloegr yn Gyffredin. Wedi Ei Ysgrifennu er mwyn y Cymry Uniaith (Llundain: Argraphwyd ac ar werth gan Vaughan Griffiths Rhif 169, Strand, [1795]). [John Jones (Glan-y-Gors, Bard), A Star under a Cloud or A Few Observations on Kings, Bishops, Lords, &c. and The Government of England in General. Written for the Benefit of the Monolingual Welsh (London: Published by and for sale from, Vaughan Griffiths No. 169, Strand, [1795])]. 3 J. Jones (Glan Y Gors), Toriad y Dydd; Neu Sylw Byr ar Hen Gyfreithiau ac Arferion Llywodraethol: Ynghyd a Chrybwylliad am Freintiau Dyn, &c. Wedi Ei Ysgrifennu er mwyn y Cymry Uniaith (Llundain: Argraphwyd ac ar werth gan yr Awdwr, a chan W. Baynes, Rhif 54, Paternoster-Row, 1797) [J. Jones (Glan Y Gors), The Break of Day; or A Brief Observation on Old Laws and Governmental Customs: Along with A Note on the Rights of Man &c. Written for the Monolingual Welsh (London: Printed and for Sale now from the Author, and from W. Baynes, Number 54, Paternoster-Row, 1797)]. 4 Thomas Roberts o Lwynrhudol, Cwyn yn erbyn Gorthrymder, Yn nghyd a Sylwadau ar Hawl Esgobion, a’u Gweinidogion i Ddegymau, &c. Wedi Ei Ysgrifennu er mwyn Gwerinos Cymru (Llundain: Argraphwyd, ac ar werth gan John Jones, Chapel-Street, Soho, [1798]). Thomas Roberts of Llwynrhudol, A Complaint against Oppression, together with Observations of the Rights of Bishops and the Ministers to Tithes, &c. Written for the Benefit of the Common People of Wales (London: Printed and Sold by John Jones, Chapel-street, Soho, [1798]). 5 [William Richards], Cwyn y Cystuddiedig, A Griddfanau y Carcharorion Dieuog; neu, Ychydig o Hanes Dyoddefiadau diweddar THOMAS JOHN a SAMUEL GRIFFITHS, y Rhai wedi Goddef GorthrymderTost a Chaethiwed Caled, dros Chwech neu Saith o Fisoedd yn Ddi-achos, a Gawsamt Eu Rhyddhau, o’r Diwedd, yn yr Uchel Eisteddfod, neu y Sessiwn Mawr diweddaf, yn Hwlffordd : Er Dirfawr Siomedigaeth i’w Gelynion Gwaedlyd a Dideimlad.(Caerfyrddin: Argraphwyd gan Ioan Evans, yn Heol y Prior–1798) [William Richards, The Complaints of the Afflicted and The Groans of the Innocent Prisoners; Or, Some of the History of the Late Sufferings of THOMAS JOHN and SAMUEL GRIFFITHS, Who Having Suffered Sore Oppression and Hard Imprisonment, over the Course of Six or Seven Months without Cause, were Released at last, in the High Sitting, or the Late Great Session, in Haverfordwest : to the Grievous Disappointment of their Bloody and Unfeeling Enemies (Carmarthen: Printed by Ioan Evans Pier Street, 1798)]