- Faith,' 8vo, London, 1877; 2nd edit. [1882].
- 'The Demands of Darwinism on Credulity,' 8vo, London [1890].
As a zoophilist he wrote:
- 'A Word for God's Dumb Creatures,' 8vo, London [1876].
- 'A Dialogue about Fox-hunting,' 8vo, London [1878].
- 'The Curse of Cruelty,' a sermon, 8vo, London, 1886.
- 'The Sparrow Shooter,' 8vo, London, 1886.
- 'The Sea Gull Shooter,' 8vo, London [1890].
- 'The Cowardly Cruelty of the Experimenters on Living Animals,' 8vo [London, 1890].
- 'The Humanity Series of School Books,' 6 pts. 8vo, London, 1890.
- 'A Defence of our Dumb Companions,' 8vo, London [1892].
His religious and ecclesiastical writings include:
- 'Extracts from the "Works of … J. Wesley,' 8vo, 1840.
- 'An Essay on Baptismal Regeneration,' 8vo, London, 1850.
- 'An Essay on the Eternal Duration of the Earth,' 8vo, London, 1850.
- 'The Maxims of the Bible,' 12mo, 1855.
- 'The Precepts of the Bible,' 24mo, 1855.
- 'The Yorkshire Hymn Book,' 16mo, London, 1860.
- 'Plain Sermons for Plain People,' 210 nos. 8vo, London [1862-90].
- 'A Handbook of Hymns for the Sick Bedside,' 8vo, London [1875?].
- 'Short Sermons for the People,' 4 nos. 8vo, London [1879].
- 'The Ghost of Wesley,' 8vo [1882].
- 'A Handbook of the Church and Dissent,' 8vo, London [1882].
- 'A Dialogue about the Church,' 2 editions, 8vo, London [1889].
- 'Methodism '[anon.], 8vo, London, 1890.
His other writings include:
- 'Penny Postage,' 8vo, London, 1840.
- 'A Plan for the Detection of Thefts by Letter Carriers,' 8vo, London, 1850.
- 'National Adult Education. Read before the British Association,' 8vo, London, 1853.
- 'The Present System of Hiring Farm Servants in the East Riding of Yorkshire,' 8vo, Driffield, 1854.
- 'Account of the Siege of Killowen,' 8vo, Driffield, 1854.
- 'Account of the Battle of the Monongohela River,' 8vo, Driffield, 1854.
- 'The Country Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland,' 5 vols. 4to, London [1866-80].
- 'The Ancestral Homes of Britain,' 4to, London, 1868.
- 'The Rights and Wrongs of Women,' 8vo, London [1870].
- 'A Hundred Reasons against the Land Craze,' 8vo, London [1885].
He also wrote letters to the 'Times' on natural history; contributed 'A Thousand and One Anecdotes on Natural History' to the 'Fireside Magazine,' and wrote for the 'Leisure Hour.'
[Yorkshire Post, 13 Feb. 1893; Daily Graphic, 16 Feb. 1893; The Naturalist of Nunburnholme, by E. W. Abram, in Good Words, September 1893 (with portrait); Crockford's Clerical Directory; Brit. Mus. Cat.; information kindly supplied by Miss L. A. G. Morris.]
MORRIS or MORUS, HUW (1622–1709), Welsh poet, was born at Pont y Meibion, which, though lying in the valley of the Ceiriog, is within the parish of Llansilin, Denbighshire. Being a younger (the third) son, he was apprenticed to a tanner, who lived at Gwaliau, near Overton, Flintshire, but he did not complete his term of apprenticeship. For the rest of his life he lived at Pont y Meibion, helping on the farm his father, his eldest brother, and his nephew in succession, and gradually winning a great reputation as a composer of ballads, carols, and occasional verse. He wrote much in the 'strict' metres, but is better known as a writer in the free ballad metres of the English type, which became popular in Wales with the decline of the older poetry in the seventeenth century. Next to the love poems the most familiar are those on political subjects. Huw Morus, like most of his countrymen, was a staunch royalist and supporter of the church of England. He satirised freely the roundhead preachers and soldiers, sometimes in allegory, and sometimes without any disguise. In 1660 he wrote an ironical 'Elegy upon Oliver's Men,' and a 'Welcome to General Monk.' Under Charles II he was still attached to the same interest, and vigorously denounced the Rye House plot in 1683. But his churchmanship was deeply protestant, and the trial of the seven bishops, of whom William Lloyd of St. Asaph had expressed admiration of his poetry, forced him to transfer his allegiance from James II to William of Orange, whose cause he warmly supported from 1688 onwards.
In his old age Huw Morus was revered by the countryside as a kind of oracle, and tradition says that in the customary procession out of Llansilin parish church after service the first place was always yielded to him by the vicar. He died unmarried on 31 Aug. 1709, and was buried at Llansilin, where a slab to his memory bears 'englynion,' by the Rev. Robert Wynne, Gwyddelwern. In appearance he was tall, sallow, and marked with small-pox. 'Cadair Huw Morus' (Huw Morus's chair), with the initials H. M. B. (Huw Morus, Bardd) upon the back, is still shown near Pont y Meibion. It is a stone seat fixed in a wall, and forms the subject of an engraving prefixed to the 1823 edition of the poet's works.
Poems by Huw Morus appear in the collection of songs printed for Foulk Owens in 1686, and reprinted (as 'Carolau a Dyriau Duwiol') in 1696 and 1729. He is represented
