Early modern period in Wales

Following Henry VIII's break with Rome and the Pope, Wales for the most part followed England in accepting Anglicanism, although a number of Catholics were active in attempting to counteract this and produced some of the earliest books printed in Welsh.

This had a significant role in its continued use as a means of everyday communication and as a literary language down to the present day despite the pressure of English.

[2] Bishop Richard Davies and dissident Protestant cleric John Penry introduced Calvinist theology to Wales.

Calvinism developed through the Puritan period, following the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, and within Wales' Methodist movement.

[6] The Welsh Methodist revival also had an influence on the older nonconformist churches, or dissenters the Baptists and the Congregationalists who in turn also experienced growth and renewal.

[citation needed] Wales was overwhelmingly Royalist in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in the early 17th century, though there were some notable exceptions such as John Jones Maesygarnedd and the Puritan writer Morgan Llwyd.