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Captain Gwilym Puw was a Welsh Catholic and Cavalier poet and Royalist officer from a prominent Recusant family of the Welsh gentry in the Creuddyn Peninsula in north Wales. His grandfather, Robert Puw of Penrhyn Hall, is known to have been very closely connected to Elizabethan era outlawed priest and Catholic martyr Blessed William Davies.
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This article is about the particular significance of the century 1501–1600 to Wales and its people.
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John Glyn Davies was a Welsh scholar, poet and songwriter, most of whose creative writing is in the Welsh language. His songs for children, often in the form of sea shanties, remain very popular in Wales. He was also the first librarian of the institution which eventually became the National Library of Wales. He has been described as "one of the most remarkable figures of his age".
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ven. William Davies". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:
