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Olson, Katharine K., “‘Slow and cold in the true service of God’: popular beliefs and practices, conformity and reformation in Wales, c.1530–c.1600”, in: Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, and Robert Armstrong (eds), Christianities in the early modern Celtic world, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 92–107.

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“‘Slow and cold in the true service of God’: popular beliefs and practices, conformity and reformation in Wales, c.1530–c.1600”

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Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin (ed.) • Robert Armstrong (ed.), Christianities in the early modern Celtic world (2014)

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92–107

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2014

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In 1570 Nicholas Robinson, the Bishop of Bangor, reported that a ‘disordered’ funeral service and ‘vain ceremonies’ had occurred after the death of one Lewis Roberts in the town of Beaumaris on Anglesey. At his burial, psalms were sung by the parish clerks and curates accompanied by singing boys, and candles burnt around the corpse. This had occurred not only in defiance of the English Book of Common Prayer but also, indeed, the new Welsh-language version, the Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin, which had been published in 1567 specifically to aid in enforcing the Reformation in Wales. The local mayor, Roger Bulkeley, explained this as ‘mere ignorance and a folishe custome there used’, and swift action was promised. Yet this incident and others like it highlight some of the difficulties and complexities faced by the state and Church in implementing Reformation changes in Wales, not the least of which were the roles played by the local gentry and the Welsh language. Certainly in Wales as in much of Scotland, however, the Reformation has commonly been deemed a success, and one generally thought to have been ensured by 1603.

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Wales 16th century Protestant Reformation

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Nicholas Robinson [bishop of Bangor]Robinson (Nicholas) ... bishop of Bangor

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