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I am inclined to believe that considerations responsible for some of the changes in the matter of training students for the Ministry of the Established Church effected by Bishop Horsley of St. David's (1788-93) and by Bishop Burgess (1803-25) may have been largely, and very naturally, theological and ecclesiastical in their essence, as witness the banning by the former of students prepared at the celebrated school which the arian divine, David Davies, kept at Castellhywel' (David Williams, A History of Modem Wales, p. 248) and the adoption of a similar policy of exclusion by the latter. It is pretty certain that Dr. Burgess had a considerable personal regard for David Davis's capabilities. In the absence of legal powers itself to grant degrees the Academy in the interests of its students adopted a bold course. In 1842 it became by Royal Warrant affiliated with the London University and was thus the first institution in Wales from which students could graduate in Arts' (W. D. Jeremy, Presbyterian Fund). Some students of the college had graduated in that University before St. David's College was in 1852 empowered to grant the degree of Bachelor of Divinity and in 1865 to confer that of Bachelor of Arts. In view of the above well-authenticated facts it seems to me that Professor Harris's claim in the paragraph cited can hardly be maintained. Llandre. W. S. JONES. A PETERWELL SALE CATALOGUE OF 1781. THROUGH the kindness of Mr. E. D. Jones, Keeper of the Manuscripts and Records at the National Library of Wales, I was permitted recently to make a copy from the original sale catalogue of the contents of the mansion house of Peterwell near Lamp- eter. This catalogue had been discovered amongst the collection of documents from Gogerddan recently deposited in the National. Library. Peterwell belonged at this time to John Adams of Whitland, who was M.P. for Carmarthen from 1774 to 1780. He had succeeded to the estates of the Lloyds of Peterwell through his uncle, Sir Herbert Lloyd, Bart. Sir Herbert, who had been M.P. for Cardigan Boroughs from 1761, died by his own hand in London in 1769. His estates were heavily encumbered, and even his corpse had been attached by a writ placed upon the coffin lid. It is said that the bailiffs has to be drugged before the body could be removed and the funeral proceed. In his time Sir Herbert had been a power in West Wales, and his home, Peterwell, had been one of the first houses in Cardiganshire. For long a total ruin it is difficult to imagine that the house had four domes and a roof garden, but with the help of the catalogue we are able, to some extent, to visualise what the interior must have looked like. We are struck, as is usual at this period, by the bareness of the rooms, a fact which is borne out by many old inventories. Peterwell, lying on the left of the road running from Lampeter to Llanwnen, is charmingly situated in the vale of Teify. The first house was built by a certain David Evans who was High Sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1641. David Evans's son Thomas and his family were active Parliamentarians and are reputed to have done well out of the troubled times that followed the end of the Civil War.