SALESBURY (or

See also:

• SALISBURY
• SALISBURY, EARLS OF
• SALISBURY, ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT GASCOYNECECIL, 3RD MARQUESS OF (1830-1903)
• SALISBURY, ROBERT CECIL, 1ST EARL OF (c. 1565-1612)
• SALISBURY, THOMAS DE MONTACUTE, 4TH EARL OF (1388-1428)
• SALISBURY, WILLIAM LONGSWORD (or LONGESPEE), EARL OF (d. 1226)

SALISBURY),

See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM (c. 1520-c. 1600)  , Welsh scholar, was a native of Denbighshire, being the son of Foulke Salesbury, who belonged to a family said to be descended from a certain Adam of Salzburg, a member of the ducal house of Bavaria, who came to England in the 10th century . Salesbury was educated at Oxford, where he accepted the Protestant faith, but he passed most of his life at Llanrwst, working at his literary undertakings . The greatest Welsh scholar of his time, Salesbury was acquainted with nine languages, including Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and was learned in philology and botany . He died about 1600 . About 1546 he edited a collection of Welsh proverbs (Oil synwyr pen kembero), probably the first book printed in Welsh, and in 1547 his Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe was published (facsimile edition, 1877) . In 1563 the English parliament ordered the Welsh bishops to arrange for the translation of the Scriptures and the book of common prayer into Welsh . The New Testament was assigned to Sales-bury, who had previously translated parts of it . He received valuable assistance from Richard Davies, bishop of St Davids, and also from Thomas Huet, or Hewett (d . 1591), but he himself did the greater part of the work . The translation was made from the Greek, but Latin versions were consulted, and in October 1567 the New Testament was published for the first time in Welsh . This translation never became very popular, but it served as the basis for the new one made by Bishop William Morgan (c . 1547-1604) .

Salesbury and Davies continued to work together, translating various writings into Welsh, until about 1576 when the literary

partnership was broken . After this event, Salesbury, although continuing his studies, produced nothing of importance . Other noteworthy members of the family (the modern spelling is Salusbury) are: JOHN SALESBURY (c . 1500-1573), who held many preferments under the Tudor sovereigns and was bishop of Sodor and Ma_I from 1571 to 1573; THOMAS SALESBURY (c . 1555-1586), an associate of Anthony Babington, who was executed for conspiring against Queen Elizabeth; HENRY SALESBURY (,561–c . 1637), the author of a Welsh grammar published in 1593; THOMAS SALESBURY (d . 1643), a poet, who probably fought for Charles I. at Edgehill; and another royalist, WILLIAM SALESBURY (C . 1580-C . 1659), governor of Denbigh Castle, which, in 1646, he gallantly defended in the interests of the king .