Welsh Journals

ei frawd, George Gambold, yn athro yn yr ysgol honno. Trwy garedigrwydd y Parch. Ddr. Eifion Evans cefais olwg ar gopiau o ddau lythyr a anfonodd Gambold at gyfeillion yn Llundain yn 1744. Un at John Hutton, y llyfrwerthwr o Forafiad, dyddiedig 10 Mawrth 1744. Cyfeirir yn hwnnw at fwriad 'Mr. Bateman'- Richard Thomas Bateman ond odid — i roddi gofal Eglwys St. Martin, Hwlffordd i fyny yn ei ffafr ef. Bychan oedd y gyflog, ond gan fod yr Eglwys 'just by us in this market town' y gallai hynny fod yn fanteisiol. Nid oedd yn sicr a ddylai gymryd gofal plwyf, er ei fod yn rhydd, 'if the Brethren think it best'. Ynglyn â gweinyddu'r Sacrament If I can allow myself to administer it to the people of the Parish in the common way of the Church of England, it will be as much as I can do; and then I shall displease the Methodists from other Parishes who used to come there, (though not so many as to Mr. [Howel] Davies' Churches) in not admitting them, and also in dropping or lessening accordingly the charity school lately set up on the sum of money collected at such sacraments Hitherto I have had opportunities sometimes to preach; I have not been so free to it, except in Churches, on Sundays, and when particularly asked, as some have asked me once out of civility, and to show they had no prejudice against me; and last Sunday too I did it for a clergyman that was sick. One pulpit I know about six miles off, where I believed I should be welcomed at any time; and at Mr. Howel Davies's too I believe it might be the same as yet, tho' he has not asked me this time of my being in the country, because he thinks me confined by the School, and of feeble body; (indeed the Church he had about five miles off, is now taken from him by the spiritual court, and he has only another curacy left, and the Chapel which themselves have rebuilt, decides societies in private houses); and he thinks perhaps too that 'tis my principle to be still Dyna'i sefyllfa yn 1744, y flwyddyn yr ymunodd yn ffurfiol a" Chynulleidfa'r Brodyr yn Fetter Lane. Yr oedd ysgol yn Hwlffordd dan ei ofal a rhyw chwant cymryd gofal plwyf arno, gan dybied y byddai hynny'n fantais i'r Brodyr. Y mae'n ddigon tebyg iddo ddylanwadu ar rywrai yn Hwlffordd yn ystod ei drigias yn y sir. 'Roedd yn gydnabyddus hefyd â Howel Davies, Apostol Methodistiaeth sir Benfro, fel y'i gelwid, ac yn barod (gellid meddwl) i gydweithio ag ef- ar wahân i weinyddu'r Sacrament i'w bobl pes derbyniasai St. Martin's. Dylid cofio hefyd fod George, ei frawd, yn cynghori gyda'r Methodistiaid ar y pryd. Ysgrifennwyd yr ail lythyr, dyddiedig 16 Ebrill 1744, o 'Shoemaker Street', Hwlffordd, at y Parch. Mr. Slicht, Llundain: I write to you now because it seems to be a time when the plan about the school ought to be fixed in some measure. I believe shortly several gentlemens children will be put to me to teach, and I must resolve whether to take them or no I chiefly look upon it as a means of supporting us without offence or burden to other people, while we wait to do, or do Service to their Souls, and by some general view to our Saviour's will, the employment has proved very sweet to my heart Upon these accounts two of the Brethren think it proper to send me some young man to help? Or if not, I will