Friday 24 May 2019

Welsh translation of the book on baptism

Two other works in Welsh were also published in Philadelphia during these early years. The firm of Benjamin Franklin and Hugh Meredydd published a Welsh translation of an English book by Benjamin Wallin, Y Dull a Fedyddio a dwfr (The Manner of Baptising with Water), in 1730. Meredydd, a Welshman, later aided Franklin in pulishing the noted Pennsylvania Gazette. The other work in Welsh entitled simply, A Welsh Pamphlet, was a reprint of a British original printed by Andrew Bradford in 1735. It dealt with moral reflections on death, judgment, Heaven and Hell.

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