Welsh history and its sources: Wales glossary

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Encroachment

The process by which land was taken over bit by bit by neighbouring landowners.

Englishries

Areas in Wales which had been settled by the English, as opposed to ‘Welshries’.

Enlightenment

Eighteenth-century philosophical movement stressing the importance of reason as against received authority and tradition, especially in religious masters. The century is often called the ‘Age of Reason’.

Entrepôt

A centre, usually a port, for the collection, storage, shipment and distribution of goods.

Escheat

Lands which reverted to the lord of the manor by, for example, right of wardship (administration of the land of minors).

Established Church

The Anglican Church (The Church of England). See Disestablishment.

Evans, Caradoc

(1878–1945). Cardiganshire novelist.

Evans, Christmas

One of the most famous of Welsh preachers. Died 1838. Baptist. Native of Cardiganshire. Ministered in north and south Wales. Known for his vivid, imaginative sermons.

Evans, E. Herber

(1836–96) Draper’s assistant who became one of the great Welsh pulpit orators and principal of the Bala-Bangor College.

Evans, Gwynfor

(1912–2005). Lawyer, politician and writer who became the first Plaid Cymru MP after winning a by-election in Carmarthen in 1966.

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