“The following old proverbs will be admitted for my excuse,—‘Ple caffo y Cymro, y cais.’ ‘Y neb a fo ddi gwylydd, a fydd ddi golled.’ My humble request is that you’ll be so kind as to send orders pr bearer to finish ye floor of the School, and to plaster and whitewash ye walls, (which look exceeding ugly at present) and to make a large oak table for writing, wch will make ye place quite compleat to the Chancellor’s liking, wn he comes to view it (as I hope he will) after his return from Hereford. I’d not be so bold a beggar and put on ye Irishman in this manner, but for my real concern for ye swarm of children, wch grow in a manner wild for want of schooling, who I hope will thro’ yr means be put in a way of serving God and man. . . . ” January, 1746:—“As the school is always uppermost in my head and heart, I can’t forbear mentioning it to you, who are so good as to sympathise wth ye Parish and me on its account. I fear the Chancellor thinks me troublesome and is offended at my frequent applications, else I would have been wth you long agoe. What to do I don’t know, I must not speak to him about it, it seems, tho’ as it were ready to burst, in spight of all the patience I preach to myself and others. . . . It is time to give an account of my stewardship of yr four guineas you entrusted to my care for the benefit of this Parish. Out of the first two guineas there went for the Bible £1 4 0, for the folio Common Prayer-book 13s.” Later, Mr. Ellis writes to Madam Owen thus:—“I shew’d T. Edwards yr memorandum of yr Brother’s promising the sum of two hundred pounds to ye School dated May ye 1st, 1745. . . . Please to present my respects to ye Chancellor and to ask him if he would be offended at a Volunteer Master’s being put in ye School to take his chance till Providence sends an endowment.” “. . . I’ve sent the Chancellor herewith a present of 2 London discourses. I’m employed by ye Society for promoting Xtian Knowledge to procure subscriptions towds printing ye 15,000 Welch Bibles, wch are now in ye Press. As Anglesey is call’d of old “Mam Cymru” or Mother of Wales, she’ll set her daughters (viz. ye other Counties) a good example on ys excellent occasion, wch will otherwise be a great reproach to ye Welch, who but for ye charity of ye English wd in a few years have scarce any such things as a Welch Bible among them.” January, 1747:—“Please tell the Chancellor that I acquainted the Society with his £10 subscription and communicate to him the following good news, wch will give him pleasure, viz.: that the Society has at last got in benefactions enough to defray the whole expence of the impression of the Welch Bibles (except ye binding), and yt is expected it will be finished before Lady Day next. According to ye good old custom I heartily wish you all a happy new year and many. Your obliged servant to command, Thos. Ellis.”