Robert Gwin
Robert Gwin (
Roman Catholic
priest and author.
Life
Gwin was from the
English College at Rome says that he ‘tam scriptis quam laboribus maximum in afflictissimam patriam auxilium contulit’.[1]
By an instrument dated 24 May 1578 Pope
Elizabethan English into Middle Welsh A Christian Directory or Exercise guiding men to eternal Salvation, commonly called The Resolution, written by Robert Persons, the Jesuit.[1] Gwyn may have written Y Drych Cristianogawl, the first book to be printed in Wales.[2]
References
- ^ a b Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11812. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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