Tomos Prys

Tomos Prys (c.1564–1634) was a Welsh soldier, sailor and poet.
Life
He was the eldest son of Ellis Price, MP of Plas Iolyn, Denbighshire. He fought in the campaign in the Netherlands at the end of the 16th century under Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and was also with the earl at Tilbury in the army that protected London from the Spanish Armada in 1588. He was also occupied as a buccaneer; at the end of the 16th century he bought a ship and went buccaneering on the Spanish coast. In 1599 he was appointed High Sheriff of Denbighshire.
On his death Prys was buried at Ysbyty Ifan on 23 August 1634.
Works
Many details survive about Tomos’s life, recorded in his poems, of which more than two hundred are extant. Many of these poems describe his adventures as a soldier who faced the Spanish Armada and fought in the French Wars of Religion.
A poem written by Tomos at Plas Iolyn in his later life:
Family
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