He was loyal to James the Second, till that monarch attempted to overthrow the Church of England, when Huw, much to his credit, turned against him, and wrote songs in the interest of the glorious Prince of Orange.

He died in the reign of good Queen Anne.

In his youth his conduct was rather dissolute, but irreproachable and almost holy in his latter days--a kind of halo surrounded his old brow.

It was the custom in those days in North Wales for the congregation to leave the church in a row with the clergyman at their head, but so great was the estimation in which old Huw was universally held, for the purity of his life and his poetical gift, that the clergyman of the parish abandoning his claim to precedence, always insisted on the good and inspired old man's leading the file, himself following immediately in his rear.

Huw wrote on various subjects, mostly in common and easily understood measures.