John Davies was one of the leading scholars of the late Renaissance in Wales. He wrote a Welsh grammar and dictionary. He was also a translator and editor and an ordained minister of the Church of Eng

Y Beibl cyssegr-lan sef Yr Hen Destament, a'r Newydd was the first complete translated version of the Bible to appear in Welsh, and the first in any modern Celtic language. It was published in 1588, a