Welsh Journals

MR. GEORGE EYRE EVANS said the first reference to the burial ground was in 1788. There was a monthly meeting minute book for that year at Swansea, in which it said that John Griffiths and Job Thomas are desired to gain the deed, if any, of Llanddewi Brefi, not yet re- covered." Mr. Evans said he had had the privilege in the Friends' Office, London, of seeing the original lease of this ground to the Quakers, and when Squire Hughes acquired the ground this little yard was re- served, together with free access to it. THE REV. D. WORTHINGTON, vicar of Llangeitho, in proposing a vote of thanks to the speakers, said the Quakers were never numerous in the district of Llanddewi Brefi. They never owned a chapel, but worshipped in a part of Werndriw Farm. It was probable that they had a chapel at Alltgoch, near Lampeter. The families of Werndriw and Garth were the chief supporters of the cause. One of the Quakers, Daniel Jenkins, married Ann, daughter of Daniel Rowland, of Llan- geitho. His brother, the Rev. David Jenkins, was a clergyman, and died when quite a young man in Carnarvonshire. When Daniel Row- land heard of his death he exclaimed, My right hand is cut away." He (Mr. Worthington) remembered the last funeral at Werndriw. The person buried was a daughter of the Garth, a sister of his grandfather, and a sister of the great grandfather or Mr. R. S. Rowland, the present owner of the Garth. The Rev. R.hys Morgan, Calvinistic Methodist minister, Llanddewi- Brefi, seconded the proposition of thanks, which was unanimously carried. The company then returned to the Parish Room, where they were entertained to tea by Mrs. T. R. Davies, the Vicarage, and Mrs. R. S. Rowland. EVENING MEETING AT THE CHURCH AT LLANDDEWI-BREFI. After tea the company visited the Church of Llanddewi-Brefi and an address was given by PROFESSOR TYRRELL GREEN, dealing with the building and the historic associations which belong to it. The site of the Church is historic ground for there was held the famous synod during St. David's own episcopate. The business for which the synod was called was, so scholars tell us, to pass disciplinary canons for the clergy, but the most important work accomplished, ac- cording to cherished tradition, was a brilliant confutation of the Pelagian heresy by the saintly bishop. The name Pelagius was generally thought to be only a Greek form of the well-known name of Morgan, and that the leader of that great heresy bore the name of Morgan was generally understood to mean that he was of British origin. He was a very holy man and lived the life of a monk. Finding that it was a comparatively easy thing to live a holy life and to keep himself free from the sins into which people commonly tell, he, it is supposed, got an exaggerated opinion of the natural good- ness of human nature, and the foundation of his heresy was that man was so good by nature that he did not need any special grace of God