Welsh Journals

Some of the Welsh were among the defenders and many must have died in the siege, but some must have been among the shiploads of refugees transported to England. The loss of a colony was a more unfamiliar problem then than it is now: with the fall of Calais an important source of jobs came to an end, and more Welshmen than ever sought work in London. Many of the refugees settled east of the Tower in London, but in the spring of 1558 there were enough Calais refugees wandering in Wales to set a problem to the Council of Wales and the Marches.15 It is, sentimentally, to be hoped that some of the Welsh at Calais found comfort and rest in their native land. St. Antony's, Oxford. P. T. J. MORGAN. 115 Acts of the Privy Council, vi. 233.