William Pugh (Welsh author)
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Captain William Pugh was a Royalist, who in 1648 composed a Welsh poem in which loyalty to his king is combined with devotion to the Roman Catholic Church. He begins by saying that the political evils afflicting Britain are God's punishment for the country's abandonment of the true religion. People were far happier, he proceeds, when the 'Old Faith' prevailed. But a better time is coming. The English Roundheads will be made square by a crushing defeat, and the king will return "under a golden veil"; the Mass shall be sung once more, and a bishop shall elevate the host. Here we have evidently a mystical allusion to the King of Kings on His throne in the tabernacle, and this is the theme underlying the whole poem.
- This article incorporates text from The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XV Copyright © 1912, which is in the public domain.
