"Englynion o Folawd i'r Llyfr." The book, with the dedication and the Englynion, was published in London in 1717.
Plurality, or the system of holding two or more livings, often far apart, was very common in those days, and Moses Williams appears to have held the living of Llanlleonfel, near Llangamarch, along with Defynog, for from an old Diocese Book in the custody of the Bishop's Registrar at Carmarthen, we find that Theophilus Evans was licensed to Llanlleonfel Sept. 23rd, 1717.
On Nov. 9th, 1718, he was priested on the title of Defynog.
In 1719, he published another book, consisting of 81 pages 12mo., entitled, "Cydymddiddan Rhwng Dau Wr yn ammau ynghylch Bedydd Plant. Gan W. Wâl, Ficar Shorham yng Nghent, a chyfieithiad Theophilus Evans. Llundain, 1719."
There is a copy of the above, perhaps the only one now extant, in the Cardiff Free Library. In the early part of the 18th century, before the great Methodist revival, practically all the Nonconformists of Wales were either Baptists or Independents, and many a fierce theological battle was fought on the question of infant baptism. The above book was Theophilus Evans' contribution to the ever-recurring con- troversy. Later on, about 1747, Griffith Jones of Llanddowror published an English tract entitled "Twenty Arguments for Infant Baptism," and the controversy was renewed.
That same year (1719), it is interesting to note, the first printing press known in Wales was set up by Isaac Carter at Adpar, a suburb of Newcastle-Emlyn, on the Cardiganshire side of the Teifi, only two miles from Penywenallt on
