Welsh Journals

Cambridge in 1713. 51 Grifiths was succeeded in 1737 by Philip Lewis, MA, who though he apparently lived in his own house in the parish, engaged the Revd Llewellin Davies, of Cefn-llys to take a weekly service at Betws. 52 Archaeologia Cambrensis, (1919), pp. 215, 216. 53 Edward Lhuyd, op. cit. 54 His father, Ezekiel Williams, senior, of Diserth, in April 1725 married by licence Sarah Hamner, widow, of Nantmel. A tablet in the church commemorates his death in 1752. 55 Archaeologia Cambrensis, (1918), p. 108. 56 Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, XXXIX (1969), pp. 69, 70. 57 Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, XLI (1971), p. 72. 58 Archaeologia Cambrensis, (1880), pp. 239, 240. 59 leuan Gwynedd Jones and David Williams, eds, The Religious Census of 1851: A Calendar of the Returns Relating to Wales, Vol. 1 South Wales, (Cardiff, 1976), pp. 566-7. 60 Jonathan Williams, op, cit., p. 317. 61 Archbishop of Canterbury 1663-1667. 62 R Tudur Jones, 'The older dissent of Swansea and Brecon', in OW Jones and D Walker, eds, Links with the Past, Swansea and Brecon Historical Essays, (Llandybie, 1974), pp. 123, 124. 63 Ibid., pp. 127, 128. 64 This made it rather more commodious than the average Welsh chapel which, it is estimated, accommodated 200 worshippers. 65 Annual Report of the Radnorshire and Baptist Association, 1907-8. 66 Statistical Returns: Diocese of St Davids, Royal Commission of the Welsh Church, (1907), p. 98. 67 This caused some resentment, 'involving the unnecessary degradation of the parish saint', the name of St Cewydd having been associated with the district 'not only from the centuries when Welsh Christianity was independent of alien control, but very possibly from a time prior to the founding of the See of Canterbury'. In other words, some thought the choice of David rather than Cewydd would achieve the reverse effect of what was intended. (JT Evans, The Church Plate of Radnorshire (Stow in the Wold, 1910), pp. 26, 27). 68 1872-1880 the Revd Thomas Macfarlane, MA was rector. He moved with his wife and nine children to Clyro in 1880. The Revd Daniel Williams was his assistant curate. When Macfarlane moved to Clyro in 1880, he was succeeded by the Revd William Edward Prickard, BA who retained Daniel Williams as his curate, as well as engaging the Revd Thomas Francis Nathan. Amongst those who visited Howey was the distinguished Commissioner of Indian Police, Sir Charles Tegart, 1881-1946, a clergyman's son who, in 1922, married a clergyman's daughter, Kathleen Frances, daughter of the Revd James Lloyd Herbert, the then rector of Diserth.