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Gweddillion Hanes. I. To Our Trusty and Wellbeloved the Bailiffs and Free Burgesses of our Towne of OSWESTREE OLIVER P. These Trusty and Wellbeloved Wee being informed that the Ffree Schools of our Towne of Oswestree, is now voyd of a head Schoole Master settled there, by reason of the Delinquency and Ejection of Edward Paine, late Schoole Master thereof, have thought fitt to recommend unto you Mr JohnEvans, the Sonne of Matthew Evans, late of Penegoes, in the Countie of Mountgomery, as a fitt person, both for piety and larneing, to be head Schoole Master of the sd Schoole and that so farre as in you lyes, the sd Mr Evans may be forthwith settled and invested there accordingly wch Act of yrs Wee shall be ready to confirme, if it be adjudged requisit and proper for Us. And not doubting of the performance of this Our pleasure, Wee committ you to God and rest. Given at Whitehall this thirteenth day of July 1657." Copi yw'r uchod o lawysgrif wreiddiol a gedwir yn y Guildhall, Croesoswallt, a'r nodiad hwn wrthi, This letter Wee recd ye 9th of Sept. 1657." Am John Evans, gweler Rees, History of Pro- testant Nonconformity in Wales," ail arg. tud. 146-7 Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru," IV. 9-10 Williams, Life of Philip Henry," tt. 367-370 etc. Nid oes rhaid dweyd bod John Evans yn un o gymeriadau pwysicaf cyfnod bore Ymneilltuaeth, a'i fab Dr. John