Abercressin," the "P" clearly standing for "Person," a clergyman. "Gwth i Iuddew" was reprinted in the Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd in 1865, p. 61.
The other was:
"Y Gwir Ddoethineb, neu Bregeth, &c., gan Theophilus Evans, P. Llanddulas, Abercressin, &c. Mwythig, Thos. Durston."
These books must have been published between 1728 and 1738, for in the latter year he resigned the living of Llanynys, and on the 30th of October in the same year he was instituted to the Vicarage of Llangamarch, and became domestic chaplain to Marmaduke Gwynne, of Garth, Brecknockshire. On May 21st, 1739, a few months after he was appointed to Llan- gamarch, he was instituted to the living of St. David's, Llanfaes [Brecon] which he held until his death. He did not, however, resign Llangamarch until the 13th August 1763. This plurality of livings, especially when combined with the fact that Llanwrtyd and Llanddewi- Abergwesyn formed at that time one benefice with Llangamarch, necessitated the appointment of an additional curate, and in 1740 William Williams, the great hymnologist of Pant-y-celyn, near Llandovery, was ordained by Nicholas Claggett, Bishop of St. David's, to the curacy of Llanwrtyd and Abergwesyn. The great revival usually associated with the names of Howell Harris and Rowlands of Llangeitho was now fairly started, and William Williams soon began to preach in barns and private houses, with the result that the Bishop refused to admit him to priest's orders, and he abandoned his curacy either voluntarily or by compulsion in 1743.
Whether Theophilus Evans had any hand in
