His grandfather, Robert Puw of Penrhyn Hall, is known to have been very closely connected to Elizabethan era outlawed priest and Catholic martyr Blessed William Davies.
[1] He was a prolific author of Welsh-language literature and strict metre poetry in defence of the Catholic faith.
[2] In 1648 he composed a Welsh poem in which loyalty to King Charles I is combined with devotion to the Roman Catholic Church.
He begins by saying that the political evils afflicting Britain during the English Civil War are God's punishment for the abandonment of the "true religion".
Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan Roundheads will be made square by a crushing defeat, and the king will return "under a golden veil"; the Tridentine Mass shall be sung once more, and a bishop shall elevate the host.