Merioneth, 1711. (Vide Foster's Index
Eccles.)
Probably his stay at the University was brief, and that he left without
taking his degree, for I have been unable to find anything further
recorded of his academic career. {0a} The Rev. Edmund Prys, Vicar of
Clynnog-Fawr, in a prefatory englyn to Ellis Wynne's translation of the
"Holy Living" says that "in order to enrich his own, he had ventured upon
the study of three other tongues." This fact, together with much that
appears in the Visions, justifies the conclusion that his scholarly
attainments were of no mean order. But how and where he spent the first
thirty years of his life, with the possible exception of a period at
Oxford, is quite unknown, the most probable surmise being that they were
spent in the enjoyment of a simple rural life, and in the pursuit of his
studies, of whatever nature they may have been.
According to Rowlands's Cambrian Bibliography his first venture into the
fields of literature was a small volume entitled, Help i ddarllen yr
Yscrythur Gyssegr-Lan ("Aids to reading Holy Writ"), being a translation
of the Whole Duty of Man "by E.
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