Political Pamphlets and Sermons from Wales 1790-1806 by Marion Löffler

Author:Marion Löffler [Löffler, Marion]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Europe, France, Great Britain, General, Revolutionary
ISBN: 9781783161010
Google: 4IGvBwAAQBAJ
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2014-10-15T02:48:07+00:00

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*I Samuel viii. 10.

†See Drych y Prif oesoedd, p. 100.

‡Matt xxi. 12.

Notes

1Glan-y-gors understood the motto ‘Y Gwir yn Erbyn y Byd’ (The Truth against the World) as an expression of ancient druidic wisdom. In fact, it had only just been devised by Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) in response to French revolutionary ideology. See Cathryn Charnell-White, Bardic Circles: National, Regional and Personal Identity in the Bardic Vision of Iolo Morganwg (Cardiff, 2007), pp. 140, 143.

2Genesis 10: 8, 9. Nimrod was the son of Cush, grandson of Ham and greatgrandson of Noah.

3Ibid.

4In Genesis 14, Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations, went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and Zoar king of Bela.

5Esther 3: 1–7, 10. This is Haman the Agagite (or Haman the Evil), son of Hammedatha the Agagite, whose plot to persuade Ahasuerus to order the killing of Mordecai (son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin, and adoptive father of Esther) is foiled by Queen Esther.

6The Bastille contained seven inmates at the time of its storming on 14 July 1789.

7Thomas Hardy (1752–1832), John Horne Tooke (1736–1812) and John Thelwall (1764–1834) were tried for High Treason by the administration of William Pitt the Younger in 1794 in an attempt to intimidate the radical movement in England. All three were exonerated.

81 Samuel 8: 10–18.

9The most recent public day of fast in support of the British troops had been declared on 25 February 1795. The reference indicates that, though Seren tan Gwmmwl was signed 10 October 1795, its author must have begun writing it much earlier in the year.

10Although the Roman Emperor Nero (AD 54–68) furthered theatre, the arts, and foreign trade, he is mainly remembered for his tyrannic leadership style, which did not shy from matricide and fraticide. He is held responsible for the Great Fire of Rome of AD 64.

111 Samuel 8: 11.

121 Samuel 8: 12.

13In the well-known English ballad ‘King John and the Bishop’, the bishop’s answer to how much the king was worth was twenty-nine pieces of silver, as no king may be worth more than Jesus. Glan-y-gors, himself an author of satirical poetry and ballads, would probably have been familiar with the ballad.

141 Samuel 8: 14.

151 Samuel 8: 18.

16Exodus 20: 3.

17According to Gildas’s De Excidio Britanniæ, it was Gwrtheyrn (Vortigern), a powerful fifth-century British warlord, who first invited Anglo-Saxon barbarians as allies to Britain. They soon rebelled against their British masters and began to settle in the island in large numbers. See CCAHE, I, pp. 864–6. The legend of Vortigern’s lust for the daughter of the Saxon leader Hengist and of the massacre of 300 British leaders at a feast given by him, which Glan-y-gors rehearses below, was well known in late eighteenth-century Romantic circles. See Juliet Feibel, ‘Vortigern, Rowena, and the Ancient Britons: Historical Art and the Anglicization of National Origin’, Eighteenth-Century Life, 21, no. 1 (2000), 1–21.

18This refers to the German House of Hanover who succeeded to the throne of Britain in 1714 with George I.

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