Welsh Puritanism in the Interregnum
Seventeenth-century Wales was an unlikely place for any kind of revolution, and was a barren land for Puritans. Indeed, the Principality was regarded by learned divines as territory in which the light of the Gospel had yet to shine. Writing in 1622, John Brinsley included the country in his list of benighted places where his Consolation For Our Grammar Schools would be especially useful, 'all rude countries and places... Ireland, Wales, Virginia and the Sommer Islands'.
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