In the 1923 the National Eisteddfod Association published in one volume, of about 570 pages, the story of "Religious Developments in Wales, from 1654 to 1662," by Thomas Richards, M.A., of the Secondary School, Maesteg, the volume of a previous volume, also published by the Association (1920), entitled "A History of the Puritan Movement in Wales, from the Institution of the Church at Llanvaches in 1639 to the Expiry of the Propagation Act in 1653."

Editorial note.

The Penal Code was the salvation of Puritanism.

Author's introduction.

Under the due guidance and inspection of their responsible pastors (many of whom, he then hoped, would be Presbyterians accommodated within the remodelled Church) Baxter thought in the summer of 1660 that private meetings of worshippers, 'their doors being open,' should not be discouraged by the ecclesiastical authorities; later in the year be advanced a comprehensive apologia for such conventicles held apart from the recognised services of the Church: aids to reflection on the sermons already preached; employing the minds of men 'when they are out of the congregation'; practice in singing psalms and calling for blessings; no possible danger to the State, unless such dangers be also attributed to meetings in taverns and on race-courses.

I. Enactments. (i) Prophecies and plots.