Anne Fychan (fl. 1688)

Abstract This poem is particularly interesting since it demonstrates a Welsh woman’s engagement with events of national significance. In The manuscript, it follows a series of twelve englynion on The Seven Bishops by Edward Morris, The drover poet of Perthi Llwydion. Both Morris and Fychan are reacting to The imprisonment of seven bishops in The Tower of London, charged with treason, after They refused to comply with James H’s demand that a second Declaration of Indulgence be read aloud in every parish church. One of The seven was Welsh, William Lloyd, Bishop of St Asaph in North Wales. The reaction of Morris and Fychan is characteristic of Welsh responses to this event.