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Religion and
the Book Trade
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Introduction ................................................................................................. 1
Lisa Peters
LISA PETERS
UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER
Those, like me, who received their religious education either through a
Church in Wales Sunday school or primary school will be familiar with
the tale of Mary Jones and her epic walk to Bala. In 1799, sixteen-year old
Mary Jones, Welsh-speaking daughter of a local weaver, walked twenty-
five miles to Bala to obtain a copy of a Welsh Bible. Unfortunately, there
were none to be had but Mary’s tale won over the local Rev. Thomas
Charles who gave her a copy that had been reserved for another subscriber.
Not only was the story of Mary’s journey the inspiration for the
creation of the British & Foreign Bible Society1 it also illustrates the close
relationship between religion and the book trade. This relationship was
demonstrated at the 2011 Print Networks annual conference which
adopted religion and the book trade as its theme. The date was auspicious,
being the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible–a book described as
a “foundational religious and literary text ... the quintessential English
book”2 and “a supreme masterpiece of English prose”.3 Numerous events
throughout the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world took
place to commemorate this historic event, the Print Networks conference
being one of many. There were few better locations to celebrate the
relationship between religion and the book trade than the magnificent
National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, which holds a copy of the first
Welsh-language Bible, translated in 1588, which is generally considered
as having ensured the survival of the Welsh language.4 As a side-note, and
1
John D. Haigh, “Jones, Mary (1784-1866),” Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, http://www.oxforddnb.com)
2
“The King James Bible in Cultural Context,” review by W. Brown Patterson,
Sewanee Review, 120 (2012): 651.
3
Pauline Croft, “The Emergence of the King James Version of the Bible, 1611,”
Theology, 114 (2011): 249.
4
See chapter 4 of Prys Morgan, “A Bible for Wales,” National Library of Wales,
http://www.llgc.org.uk/big/index_s.htm
2 Introduction
It was for the book trade to print and spread these controversies.
Contributions to the Print Networks conference covered various
aspects of religion and the book trade. There were tales of printers and
publishers of religious works, authors, religious periodicals, promoters of
libraries, and even those who smuggled religious works from one country
to another.
Unsurprisingly for a conference held in Wales, there were three
contributions focusing on the relationship between religion and the book
trade in that country. Dr Eryn White, from the University of Aberystwyth
and one of the keynote speakers, contributes a chapter on “The Bible and
5
John Edward Lloyd and R.T. Jenkins, “Bishop William Morgan (c.1545-1604),”
A Dictionary of Welsh Biography Down to 1940 (London: Hon. Society of
Cymmrodorion, 1959), 656.
6
For example, Leland Ryken, The Legacy of the King James Bible: Celebrating
400 Years of the Most Influential English Translation (Wheaton, IL: Crossway,
2011).
7
Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass
Reading Public, 1800-1900 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957), 25.
Religion and the Book Trade 3
8
John Davies, A History of Wales (London: Penguin, 1993), 244.
4 Introduction
traces the relationship between author, printing house, and reader. It looks
at ways in which we can trace how printers and publishers shaped the
works that they commissioned, produced, or sold. It also focuses on the
challenges faced by historians of print, as they try to trace these paths and
directions of influence as collaboration was common in the early modern
printing trade.
Amongst the numerous contributions made during the King James
Bible anniversary year of 2011, it is hoped this volume of essays
emphasises the pivotal role played by those in the book trade, be they
creators, printers, or sellers, in the distribution of religious works and that
spreading the ideas of their authors, creators, or translators would have
been far more difficult without their involvement.
CHAPTER ONE
ERYN M. WHITE
UNIVERSITY OF ABERYSTWYTH
The year 1546 witnessed the appearance of the earliest known printed
book in the Welsh language: a seventeen page quarto volume from the
press of the printer Edward Whitchurch of London. This first book was the
work of Sir John Prise,1 secretary of the Council in Wales and the
Marches, a scholar with quite a distinguished career in the royal service,
perhaps assisted in the previous decade by his connection through
marriage to Thomas Cromwell. After Cromwell’s fall from grace, Prise
may well have received discreet support for his humanist interests from
William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, one of the most influential Welshmen
at court.2 Prise was someone well placed to receive official approval for
his publication and it may be significant that the work was printed by
Whitchurch, who held the royal patent for service books and went on to
print the 1549 Book of Common Prayer.3 Although it is difficult to
categorise Prise as a “Protestant”, he evidently firmly believed in the
principle that everyone should have access to the Scriptures in their own
tongue. His work actually bears no proper title; it is known simply by the
first words setting out its purpose: Yny lhyvyr hwnn... or “In this book...”
1
His surname is also frequently spelled as Price or Prys.
2
R. Geraint Gruffydd, “Yny lhyvyr hwnn (1546): The Earliest Welsh Printed
Book,” The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, 23 (1969): 115-6; See also R.
Geraint Gruffydd, “Y print yn dwyn ffrwyth i'r Cymro: Yny lhyvyr hwnn, 1546,” Y
Llyfr yng Nghymru / Welsh Book Studies, 1 (1998): 1–20.
3
John Raven, The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade
(London: Yale University Press, 2007), 64-5; Alec Ryrie, “Whitchurch, Edward (d.
1562),” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2004, http://www.oxforddnb.com).
The Bible and the Book in Early Modern Wales, 1546-1770 7
for “in this book are set out the Welsh alphabet, a calendar, the Creed, the
Paternoster, the Ten Commandments, the Seven Sacraments of the
Church, the virtues to be practised and the vices to be avoided and their
ramifications”. The introduction refers to the King, the ailing Henry VIII,
and his desire to see knowledge of the gospel spread among his people. In
the light of this desire, the author deemed it “fitting” to render in Welsh
some essential elements of the Scripture for those “who know no language
in the world but Welsh” because a large part of the nation are in “darkness
for want of knowledge of God and his commandments”:
And now that God has placed print in our midst in order to multiply
knowledge of his blessed words, it is proper for us, as all Christendom has
done, to take a part of this goodness along with them, so that so good a gift
as this should be no less fruitful to us than to others.4
This slim book, with its quite brief introduction, thus sets the stage for
the history of the development of printing through the medium of Welsh.
It emphasises the need to spread religious knowledge, particularly
knowledge of the word of God in the Bible, and also urges the use of that
God-given invention, the printing press, to that end. These were themes
that would recur time and time again in the works of authors during the
early modern period. It is indeed highly appropriate that the first book to
be printed in Welsh contained the first printed extracts of the Bible in
Welsh, marking the beginning of the long association between the printing
press, the Bible, and zeal for the promotion of religious knowledge. Aside
from their love of “the old British tongue”, the strongest justification for
the continued use of Welsh by authors was in order to spread religious
knowledge through the means of the only language the bulk of the
population could understand. William Morgan argued in his preface to the
1588 Bible that:
4
Garfield H. Hughes, ed., Rhagymadroddion 1547-1659 (Cardiff: Gwasg Prifysgol
Cymru, 1951), 3; see also the reproduction ed., John H. Davies, Yny lhyvyr hwnn a
Ban o gyfreith Howel (Bangor, 1902).
5
English translation from A.O. Evans, A Memorandum on the Legality of the
Welsh Bible and the Welsh Version of the Book of Common Prayer (Cardiff: W.
Lewis (Printers), 1925), 134.
8 Chapter One
Fig. 1-1. Yny lhyvyr hwnn (1546). By permission of the National Library of Wales.
The Puritan Morgan Llwyd in the seventeenth century and the Anglican
Griffith Jones in the eighteenth century both used the verse, “My people
are destroyed for lack of knowledge” to explain their motivation in
writing.6 It was always virtually impossible to produce a convincing
riposte to the argument that here were a people who needed to be given
vital information in order to be saved and who could only understand that
6
Hosea 4:6; Morgan Llwyd, Llyfr y Tri Aderyn, ed., M. Wynn Thomas (Cardiff:
Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1988), 104; Griffith Jones, Cyngor Rhad i’r
Anllythrennog (London, 1737), 3.
The Bible and the Book in Early Modern Wales, 1546-1770 9
Local people clung to their Catholic traditions out of ignorance of, it was
felt, the Protestant gospel, giving rise to the pressing need for further
explanation through the medium of Welsh. In 1595 Hugh Lewis published
Perl mewn Adfyd, his translation into Welsh of A Spiritual and most
Precious Pearl, previously translated from German by Miles Coverdale.
7
See Ivor Bowen, ed., The Statutes of Wales (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908),
149-51.
8
Peter R. Roberts, “Tudor Legislation and the Political Status of ‘the British
Tongue’” in The Welsh Language Before the Industrial Revolution, ed., Geraint H.
Jenkins (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997), 142-3.
9
Hughes, Rhagymadroddion 1547-1659, 19.
10
David Mathew, ed., “Some Elizabethan Documents,” Bulletin of the Board of
Celtic Studies, 6 (1931): 77-8.
10 Chapter One
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