The Making of Modern Wales: Studies in the Tudor Settlement of Wales (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Making of Modern Wales: Studies in the Tudor Settlement of WalesThis book is not intended to be a History of Modern Wales, but an attempt to describe the transformation of Mediaeval into Modern Wales. No pioneer has blazed a path through the untrodden forest before me. Dr. Henry Owen, the late Judge Lewis, Mr. Lleufer Thomas, and Miss Skeel have done valuable work in reference to the Court of the Council of the Marches. Dr. Thomas Rees and others have spent much labour over the history of Nonconformity. But, except in these directions, I have had the benefit of no previous work. These circumstances will help to explain why I have apportioned so much space to the decay of Catholicism and so little, comparatively, to the rise and progress of Nonconformity in Wales, so much to the Court of Great Sessions and so little to the Council of the Marches. The story of Catholicism in Wales after the Reformation has never before been told, while innumerable volumes have been published dealing with the history of Protestant Nonconformity. No one has ever attempted to give an account of the Courts of Great Sessions, important though the part was which they played in the development of Wales, while Miss Skeel's exhaustive monograph on the Council of the Marches has rendered the task of writing its history a work of supererogation. The difficulty about the last two chapters of this book has been to decide what to leave out.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.