Robert Gwyn and Robert Persons: English and Welsh perspectives on attendance at Anglican Service

James January-McCann

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Abstract

This article compares and contrasts the 1580 texts A briefe discours contayning certayne reasons why Catholiques refuse to goe to Church by Robert Persons, and Gwssanaeth y Gwŷr Newydd by Robert Gwyn. Both books deal with church papism, and were written whilst the authors were in Rome together. Despite the simi-larity of theme, and the fact that the two most likely consulted each other about the work, many significant differences remain between the two texts. This article seeks to discuss these differences, and to assess what conclusions can be inferred from them as to the relative conditions of English and Welsh Catholicism, and the effect that this had on the authors’ work.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)159-171
Number of pages13
JournalBritish Catholic History
Volume32
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2014

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