He himself published nothing more, but A Short Commentary on the
Catechism and a few hymns and carols were written by him and published
posthumously by his son, Edward, being included in a volume of his own,
entitled Prif Addysc y Cristion, issued in 1755.
The latter part of his life is as completely obscure as the earlier; he
lapsed again into the silence from which he had only just emerged with
such signal success, and confined his efforts as a Christian worker
within the narrow limits of his own native parts, exercising,
doubtlessly, an influence for good upon his immediate neighbourhood
through force of character and noble personality, as upon his fellow-
countrymen at large by means of his published works. His wife died in
1720, and his son, Ellis, in 1732; two years later he himself died and
was buried under the communion table in Llanfair church, on the 17th day
of July, 1734. {0e} There is no marble or "perennial brass" to mark the
last resting-place of the Bard, nor was there, until recent years, any
memorial of him in either of his parish churches, when the late Rev. John
Wynne set up a fine stained-glass window at Llanfair church in memory of
his illustrious ancestor.
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