The implementation of Protestantism during the sixteenth century resembled a modern day rollercoaster ride with lots of ups and downs, sharp corners, twists and turns. With many different rulers during the sixteenth century who had varying religious ideas the extent of the effects Protestantism had firstly in England and then the following effects in Wales very to each other. Something the rulers of the time, being the Tudors did not have to worry about was the loyalty of the Welsh people in the majority.

When Henry Tudor ascended the throne as Henry VII, the foundations of the great Welsh landed-estates had been laid, and much of the day-to-day affairs of the nation was controlled by its landed squires, many of whom had descended from English families and intermarried with their Welsh counterparts. In 1461, this control was exemplified and sanctified, as it were, by the appointment of William Herbert of Raglan in Southeast Wales, to Parliament as Baron Herbert, the first full-blooded Welshman to become part of the English aristocracy and the first in a long tradition that for centuries to come, would z

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