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CHARLES, DAVID (1762 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymn-writer ); and again Pregethau, etc. (Wrexham, 1860). In 1879 Detholion o Ysgrifeniadau (a selection of his works) was published at Wrexham. His hymns were published in the small collections of the period, e.g. Anthem y Saint… gan Evan Dafydd (Carmarthen, 1807); Hymnau ar Amrywiol Achosion (Carmarthen, 1823), etc. His eminence as a hymn writer is assured, and his greatest hymns are to be found in all the Welsh
CHARLES, JOHN ALWYN (1924 - 1977), minister (Cong.) and college lecturer , Tylorstown, where he was ordained on 18 and 19 July 1951, and where he remained until 1959. Afterwards, he served as minister in Allt-wen (1959-63), and in Harrow (1965–66). He served as a school teacher in Windsor from 1963 to 1965. On 18 January 1955, he married Miss. Pegi Rees, the daughter of the late Rev. Harding Rees and his wife. They had one son, Dafydd. Following the sudden death of Principal
teulu CHERLETON Northumberland and lord Bardolf, rebels and allies of Glyn Dwr, 1406, and was the friend of Adam Usk. In November 1417 Sir John Oldcastle was captured at Broniarth, near Welshpool, by Sir Gruffydd Vaughan and his brother Ieuan ap Gruffydd, aided by Hywel ap Gruffudd ap Dafydd ap Madog and Deio ap Ieuan ap Iorwerth ab Adda, two yeomen. These men surrendered Oldcastle to their overlord Edward Cherleton, whose
CHRISTINA , she actively supported her sons Dafydd and Rhodri, in their attack upon their half-brother Hywel in 1170; an unknown poet, playing upon her name, speaks bitterly of her unchristian behaviour. The Welsh form of her name is Cristin; the ' Crisiant ' of the Gwentian Brut (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, ii, 572) is a fancy of Iolo Morganwg.
CLOUGH, Sir RICHARD (bu farw 1570), merchant, and (for a period) 'factor' for Sir Thomas Gresham in Antwerp 40 years of age when he died. Welsh elegies were composed upon his death by Siôn Tudur, Simwnt Vychan, and William Cynwal; there are two such elegies by Cynwal in NLW MS 6496C (facsimile of a Christ Church, Oxford, manuscript). Cynwal has two other interesting poems in the same manuscript written to Clough and Katherine - one a 'kowydd' to send a hawk to greet 'ric. Klwch a meistres Katrin' when
CNEPPYN GWERTHRYNION (fl. 13th century), poet and grammarian gather that he hailed from Gwerthryniawn (now part of Radnorshire), and that his verse was 'correct by Latin standards' or by the rhetorical standards of his period. In some manuscripts ' Cneppyn Gwerthryniawn ' is given as one of several nicknames borne by Sypyn Cyfeiliog or Dafydd Bach ap Madog Wladaidd, but as this Dafydd sang late in the 14th century he could not have been the original Cneppyn (see
teulu CONWAY Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, predecessors, JENKYN CONWAY (died about 19 September 1432), grandson of Richard, married a Welshwoman, Marsli, daughter of Maredudd ap Hywel ap Dafydd of Cefn-y-fan, ancestor of the Wynn family of Gwydir, and the accession of Elizabeth I found the family firmly established as an integral part of Flintshire society. JOHN CONWAY (died 1578), grandson of Thomas Conway (died before 1526), and great-great
CRADOC, WALTER (1610? - 1659), Puritan theologian known as a preacher, and the greater part of his published work consists of sermons. His publications were: (i) The Saints fulnesse of joy in their Fellowship with God (London, 1646); (ii) Gospel-Libertie in the Extensions Limitations of it … Whereunto is added good Newes from Heaven (London, 1648); (iii) Mount Sion or the Privilege and Practice of the Saints (London, 1649); (iv) Divine Drops
CYFFIN, ROGER (fl. c. 1587-1609), a poet . Davids (Cwrtmawr MS 222D (28)), and Dafydd Llwyd of Dolobran (Aberdare MS. 1 (578)). He also wrote poetry on topical themes, e.g. a cywydd written in judgment on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and in praise of king James I (Peniarth MS 112: Llyfr cywyddau Siôn ap William ap Siôn (189)), and an englyn giving advice to William Cyffin on his departure for Ireland with the earl of Essex in 1599 (Jes. Coll. MS
CYNAN ap HYWEL (bu farw 1242?), prince Llywelyn's death in 1240, hostile to the Crown, and accordingly deprived him of Emlyn and Ystlwyf. His later history is unknown, but it is clear from the elegy of Dafydd Benfras upon Gruffydd ap Llywelyn that in 1244 he was dead. Prydydd Bychan has an elegy upon him couched in the traditional vein; he is 'England's foe,' has made England bend, and on a hundred nights has made war upon Rhos.
CYNFRIG ap DAFYDD GOCH (fl. c. 1420), poet
CYNWAL, RICHARD (bu farw 1634), poet of Maes y Garnedd (?), Capel Garmon, Denbighshire His work, written in the strict metres, consists chiefly of poems to various North Walian gentry. He took pride especially in his position as family poet at Rhiwedog mansion (near Bala), and a bardic controversy ensued between Richard Phylip and himself because of this. He composed an eulogy to Tomas Prys of Plas Iolyn and an elegy to Siôn Phylip

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