Welsh Journals

THE JOURNAL OF THE Welsh Bibliographical Society VOL. II. OCTOBER, 1917. No. 2. John Evans and the Welsh Bible of 1769. In the JOURNAL tor septemoer, 1912 (1. no), atter describing a cancel' in Welch Piety for 1749-50, I enun- ciated a theory that the addition was a reply to the detractions rude' contained in the Welch Charity Schools published in 1752, and I suggested a plausible explanation of the fact that the defence preceded the attack. I now find that the theory may be modified in such a way as to render the explanation unnecessary. I still hold that the addition was the reply of Griffith Jones of Llanddowror, to the unneighbourly assault of his neighbour John Evans of Eglwys Cymyn,* but to an assault made before 1752. The hostility must have been manifest as early as 1745, for on July 19th of that year William Morris, writing from the Custom House at Holyhead, thanks his brother Richard of the Navy Office in Whitehall, for news of their fellow-countrymen in London, and adds that they had heard of Evans and Griffith Jones­‘ Clywsom son am Evans a Gr. Jones (Morris Letters, 1. 84). Mr. J. H. There are several spellings of this word, and several correspond- ing hypotheses as to its origin. I adopt the spelling and the hypothesis of the late Sir John Rhys. (See Inventory of the County of Carmarthen, 1917, p. 39).