Neuadd Fawr

By Gethin Evans

by Review and report by four Friends in Wales 28th November 2025

In 1727, Ellis Pugh, a Welshman living in Pennsylvania, wrote a book entitled: Annerch ir Cymru (translated as ‘Salutation to the Britons’). In it he explained the Quaker faith and expounded on baptism, communion and other topics. Quaker faith & practice 2.05 offers a brief excerpt. Significantly, this was the last publication written by an individual Quaker in Welsh until this year. Gethin Evans has filled that 300-year publication gap by writing a series of essays under the title Neuadd Fawr (The Broad Hall), a reference to the poem by the Quaker poet Waldo Williams, ‘Pa beth yw dyn?’ (What is humanity?), where he asks,‘what is life?’