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Wales glossary

Wales glossary
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Wednesday, 22 April 2026, 10:12 PM
Site: Open Learning
Course: Welsh history and its sources (CYMRU_1)
Glossary: Wales glossary
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Y Faner

Nineteenth-century Liberal radical Welsh-language newspaper.

Yeomen

Came in the social and economic scale below gentry but above husbandmen. Technically held land worth £2 per annum and above. The lowest rank allowed to read the Bible.

Yny Lhyvyr Hwnn

(In this Book). The first book printed in Welsh, in 1546, consisting of translations into Welsh of the Creed, the Ten Commandments, the Pater Noster and other prayers.