Captain Gwilym Puw (sometimes anglicised as William Pugh) (c. 1618 – c. 1689) was a Welsh Catholic and Cavalier poet and Royalist officer from a prominent Recusant family from the Creuddyn Peninsula in north Wales. He was a prolific author of Welsh language poems, mainly in defence of the Catholic faith. He also translated Catholic liturgical works from Ecclesiastical Latin into his native Welsh. This article incorporates text from The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XV Copyright © 1912, which is in the public domain. * v * t * e