Evans was educated. It has been surmised that he went to Shrewsbury. Unfortunately, the old registers of that famous School for the end of the 17th and the early part of the 18th century were not kept, or have been lost.
A sentence, however, in the introduction to the 1st edition of "Drych y Prif Oesoedd appears very suggestive in this connection. There he says: "Cefais rydd-did i fyned pan y mynnwn i'r Llyfr-gell fawr odidog sy'n perthyn i Yʃgol-rydd Tref y Mwythig."
An "old boy" would scarcely require this special permission, and moreover if he were an alumnus a reference to his old school would have probably led him to add that there too he had been educated. On the other hand, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School at Carmarthen enjoyed a great reputation about that time. It was under 20 miles from Penywenallt. There his neighbour Griffith Jones (1683-1761), afterwards of Llanddowror, was educated, and from there he was ordained. Griffith Jones was a native of Cilrhedyn, not far from Newcastle-Emlyn. Moses Williams, too (1684-1742), of Glaslwyn, Llandyssul, was at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School before he went to Oxford. Finally, and perhaps the most conclusive evidence of all, John Evans, in his autobiography, states that his step-mother's son was educated at Carmarthen. It seems but natural to infer that Theophilus also would be sent to the same school. At Carmarthen he would meet Griffith Jones, and possibly Moses Williams had not left when the son of Penywenallt entered.
It is evident that his education was not neglected, if we had no other proof than the scholarly, if somewhat ponderous, Latin of his
