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Miscellaneous notes by J. H. Davies on the Methodist revival in Wales and on John Lewis, Glasgrug and his advocacy for the establishment of a Welsh College; etc.

A notebook in the hand of J. H. Davies containing transcripts of, or extracts from: (A) letters in the Daniel Williams Library, London from the Reverend John Edwards [vicar of Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire] and to the Reverend John Jones, curate of Abbots Ripton, Huntingdonshire, 1740/1-41 (the Methodist revival and Welsh circulating schools in Cardiganshire) (see Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, Cyf I, Rhif 2 (1916), pp. 152-5.) and (B) correspondence in the same library between Richard Baxter, John Lewis, Glaskeryg [Glasgrug, Cardiganshire], John Ellis, [rector of] Dolgelly, etc., 1656-59/60 [see J. H. Davies 'An early attempt to found a national college in Wales', Wales (ed. O. M. Edwards), Vol III (1896), pp. 121-4]; extracts from Francis Gawler, A record of some persecutions inflicted upon some of the servants of the Lord in South Wales (1659), and John Lewis, Euaggeliografa, or, some Seasonable and modest Thoughts in order to the furtherance and promoting the affaires of Religion, and the Gospel, especially in Wales ... (1656); and bibliographical memoranda.

Extracts by Tom Ellis from 'Y Traethodydd', 'Llyfr y Tri Aderyn', 'Hanes y Ffydd', etc. on Welsh language and literature, religious revivals in Wales, etc.