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THE JOURNAL OF THE Welsh Bibliographical Society VOL. I. JUNE, 1910. No. i The Trevecka MSS. and Library. Till some eighteen years ago the Trevecka MSS. had not been catalogued, arranged and as properly cared for as they should have been. Howel Harris-one of the Fathers of Welsh Methodism and the Founder of the Religio-Industrial Community at Trevecka-had himself died in 1773, and William James,* the last of the Family," was buried in 1847. In 1842 the buildings at Trevecka with all their appur- tenances were presented by the few remaining members of the Family to the Breconshire C.M. Presbytery, and they in turn placed them at the disposal of the Calvinistic Methodist Association for the purpose of establishing their first Theological College in South Wales. From October 7, 1842, when the castellated monastery of Howel Harris was opened as a College, till September 1906, when the Theological School was transferred to Aber- ystwyth, Trevecka with all its valuable Books and MSS. had been guarded by its successive Principals and Pro- fessors. Since September, 1906, the building has been used as the home of a Preparatory School for student preachers His Epitaph in Talgarth Churchyard reads Er cof am W. James, Trevecca, y diweddaf o bobl Howel Harris Yr hwn a fu farw Mehefin 13, 1847, yn 78 mlwydd oed." Ar holl oes honno hefyd a gasglwyd at eu tadau."