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

In effect it was not Protestantism that did not gain the support of the Welsh people directly but it was the Monarchs in control at the time who had the support of the Welsh. Like sheep the Welsh people seemed to follow and go along with most of the religious changes thrown at them from across the border.

ap the Welsh nation of its leaders and men of influence. This loyalty continued under Henry VIII who came to the throne in 1491. Their loyalties would henceforth be with the Crown or Parliament or both, but not with their native country; they would associate the latter with loyalty to the Tudor sovereigns. Even the harsh, repressive measures of Bishop Rowland Lee, appointed President of the Council of Wales in 1534, seemed to have caused no great reaction on the part of the Welsh, whom he seemed to have regarded as little more than "congenital thieves." There was no rebellion, as occurred in Cornwall and Yorkshire, against the great religious changes instituted by the Crown. Either the Welsh realised the hopelessness of their position, or their leaders, in true Dic-Sion-Dafydd style, were too busy enjoying the fruits of co-operation with London. The year 1536 produced no great trauma for the Welsh; all the ingredients for its acceptance had been put in place long before.

The loyalty the Tudor dynasty received from the Welsh starts with Henry Vll who fulfilled the Bardic prophecy of the Welsh people, that a Welshman would come and lead the people in defeating the English. This support received by Henry Vll did help him in securing the throne. This was a primary reason for the Tudor dynasty having the support of the Welsh, as they now had someone on the throne with Welsh blood. Although not doing anything for the Welsh people during his reign he managed to retain support through to his son Henry Vlll?s reign when changes occurred for the Welsh people.

Support for the monarchy was always at a fairly constant level in Wales due to the links with the Bardic prophecy, even though it meant tha

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