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	Welsh Schools
		Griffith Jones was a Welsh country parson of Llanddowror in Carmarthenshire.
		At first Jones considered he was carrying on the work of the SPCK, but on the death of his patron in 1737, he felt he to carry the mantle of his former mentor.
		Jones believed,' that the young were the best learners and would be preserved by their learning, from vice, and error, and profaneness.
	www.swanseamass.org /history/wales/schools/schools.html (4437 words)

	Welsh Literature - MSN Encarta
		His “Ymadawiad Arthur” (“The Passing of Arthur”), which won the chair at the 1902 National Eisteddfod, is the first literary milestone of the century, and was followed by a number of other long poems based on themes from medieval Celtic mythology and history.
		Her work from 1949 to 1981 is decidedly modern in tone, and by the second half of the century she became known as “the queen of Welsh literature”.
		Lewis was a classicist, influenced by the Greeks and by Corneille and Racine.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_1481500633_2/Welsh_Literature.html (4247 words)

	The Welsh Methodist Revival - Griffiths Jones
		He served the parish for five years before moving to be the rector in the parish of Llanddowror in 1716.When Griffith Jones arrived in Llanddowror, he soon discovered that very few of his parishioners were able to read and couldn't understand his sermons.
		However, educated priests such as Griffith Jones were few and far between and he decided to overcome these difficulties in an innovative way.
		These "teachers" would be paid for their work from money collected by Griffith Jones.Soon, many rich landowners contributed to this endowment fund, none greater than Madam Bevan, who carried on the work after Griffith Jones died in 1761.
	www.porthjuniors.ndo.co.uk /Work/RE/griffiths_jones.htm (330 words)

	Banner of Truth Trust General Articles
		It is not certain why Jones was to preach in the churchyard but it is more than likely that the Rowland brothers were opposed to his preaching in their church.
		That sermon of Griffith Jones was the instrument of Daniel Rowland's spiritual awakening.
		Jones saw the restlessness of Rowland and, according to John Owen (Rowland's biographer) he was publicly challenged as to his spiritual condition.
	www.banneroftruth.org /pages/articles/article_detail.php?515 (1608 words)

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		What Griffith did in the north, and the sons of Bleddyn in the east, Griffith ap Rees did in the south; he showed that the Norman army could be beaten in battle, and that a Norman castle could be taken by assault.
		Griffith ap Conan and Llywelyn the Great had the energy and the foresight, though their sphere was so much smaller, of Henry II.
		Griffith Jones of Llanddowror established a system of circulating schools, the teachers moving from place to place as a room was offered them--sometimes a church and sometimes a barn.
	www.cumorah.com /etexts/hstwl10.txt (24206 words)

	Cardiff University - Ann Griffiths Digital Website: Bala and the Bible
		Griffith Jones’s circulating schools had begun in the 1730s and had proved a remarkable educational and religious experiment which had succeeded in making the Welsh one of the most literate peoples in Europe in the mid-eighteenth century.
		Ann Griffiths was born in 1776, the youngest but one of the five children of John and Jane Thomas of Dolwar Fach farm in the parish of Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa, Montgomeryshire.
		This monument to Mary Jones was erected in 1907 in the ruins of Tyn-y-ddôl, the cottage in Llanfihangel-y-Pennant where she and her mother were living in 1800, at the time of Mary's walk to Bala to obtain a Bible from Thomas Charles.
	www.anngriffiths.cardiff.ac.uk /bible.html (9590 words)

	16. Griffith Jones
		Cafodd Griffith Jones ei eni ym Mhant-yr-efail ym mhlwyf Pen-boyr, Sir Gaerfyrddin, a chafodd ei godi yng Nglyn Cuch.
		Pan oedd Griffith Jones yn ddyn ifanc aeth i Gaerfyrddin i’w baratoi ei hun ar gyfer yr eglwys.
		Yn y flwyddyn 1716 daeth Griffith Jones yn rheithor Llanddowror, (rhwng Caerfyrddin a Phenfro).
	www.pgfl.org.uk /elyfraucasmael/html/16__griffith_jones.html (344 words)

	GENUKI: Llanddowror
		Griffith Jones, Llanddowror Documents "A volume of the sermons of Griffith Jones, in an early 19th century hand.
		Places, villages, farms etc within Llanddowror as shown on the parish map on the CD of Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file].
		Llanddowror (57); Afon Taf; Cil-dywyll; Cnyciau; Cwm; Llanddowror (village); Maes-y-lan; Parciau; Pentre Howell; Pen-y-lan; Picton Ho.; Vaynor
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/wal/CMN/Llanddowror/index.html (825 words)

	Llanddowror
		In the Middle Ages, Llanddowror was a stopping-place on the great pilgrimage route to St David’s.
		Llanddowror Church is worth a visit but you will have to track down a key.
		Griffith Jones became rector of Llanddowror in 1716.
	cistercian-way.newport.ac.uk /place.asp?PlaceID=94 (612 words)

	THE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL IN WALES - Issue 1.
		Jones, in fact, was the precursor of the greatest revival Wales has ever experienced, that of 1755, of which the preaching of Howel Harris, of Treveeca, was the immediate cause.
		Its pioneer was Humphrey Jones, a Wesleyan returned from the States, where a powerful awakening had broken out.
		Jones commenced his campaign at Treiddol, and his preaching soon attracted great attention.
	www.welshrevival.org /histories/awstin1/001.htm (1261 words)

	Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru: Llyfryddiaeth (G) / Bibliography (G)
		Griffith: GA George Griffith: Gueddi'r-Arglwydd Wedi ei Hegluro, 1685.
		Jones: AS [Griffith Jones (Llanddowror)]: Athrawiaeth y Sgrythur Ynghylch Parhâd mewn Gras, 1743.
		Traethawd Ph.D. Prifysgol Cymru gan Anne Elizabeth Jones, 1981.
	www.aber.ac.uk /~gpcwww/llyf_g.htm (755 words)

	BBC - Wales - History of religion: Hymnwriters and preachers
		All three were greatly influenced by the work and preaching of Griffith Jones of Llanddowror, and undoubtedly his Sunday Schools and the increase in literacy greatly contributed to the development of Methodism.
		Jones himself never embraced Methodism although he admitted to having some sympathy with its aims.
		Most hymnwriters of this period were men, but Ann Griffiths (1776-1805) was an exception to the rule.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/religion/sites/timeline/pages/religion_in_wales_9.shtml (667 words)

	GENUKI: Life and times of Griffith Jones, sometime rector of Llanddowror
		In Welsh Piety for 1777, the year in which Madam Bevan died, a statement is given "of the number of Schools established by Griffith Jones and Mrs.
		Bevan, and the number of scholars instructed in them from the commencement of 1737, til the death of that lady in 1777 (NB Griffith Jones died in 1763 - DP), a period of forty years." The total number of schools was 6,465 and of scholar 314,051(See table below).
		It is no exaggeration to say that in a little more than a generation, the great majority of the population of Wales was directly affected by these schools.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/wal/CMN/Llanddowror/Jones.html (362 words)

	Revival Library \| The Early Life Of Howell Harris by Richard Bennett \| Part One - 1
		On 15 February 1733 the Rev. Griffith Jones of Llanddowror wrote to his friend, Mrs.
		It seems, however, that Howell was unsatisfied with his position in life, for we find Joseph advising him to resign himself for a while, promising to look for something better for him as soon as he could.
		Lewis Jones, of Trebinsiwn Mansion in that parish; Mr.
	www.revival-library.org /catalogues/world1/bennettr/101.htm (1764 words)

	Revival comes to Wales
		Griffith Jones of Llanddowror, famous for his charity school movement.
		On one occasion, Griffith Jones was preaching in the vicinity of Llangeitho when Daniel Rowland was in the crowd.
		Although Llangeitho and Llanddowror were 30 miles apart, Rowland sought Jones's fellowship and counsel as often as he could.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /freegrace/library/Rowland/revival1.htm (1311 words)

	LIVING ECHOES OF THE WELSH REVIVAL - Robert Ellis - 1.
		Griffith Jones, Llanddowror with his evangelical preaching and his circulating schools may be regarded as the morning star of the eighteenth century revival in Wales.
		William Jones, his brother, served his Master in the Western hemisphere and undoubtedly heard the divine “Well done.” David Jones, Treborth, another of the triumvirate, was an accomplished poet in the strict metres and a hymn writer as well as an acceptable preacher.
		During this stage a young Welsh Wesleyan preacher, Humphrey Jones, came across the sea in the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ.
	www.welshrevival.org /histories/ellis/01.htm (3237 words)

	Wales: a long history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In its time, it must have seemed enormous, though nowadays it is wide enough for only one car at a time and is the cause of much shunting and shuffling because oncoming traffic cannot be seen from either end.
		Griffith Jones of Llanddowror : preacher, founder of the methodist movement in Wales, his genius for organisation made a success of the circulating schools, begun in the 1720s, though the work of the SPCK collapsed for lack of teachers and resources.
		Bridget Vaughan Bevan: her financial support and active help were so important to Griffith Jones work that his schools continued to flourish long after their deaths, and into the mid-nineteenth century.
	www.welshvilla.co.uk /welshpast.htm (2548 words)

	Revival Library \| The Early Life Of Howell Harris by Richard Bennett \| Part Two - 1
		At last the time drew near for him to become acquainted with Churchmen who "were worthy men, of the same mind as himself." He first heard of Griffith Jones, Llanddowror, in May, from some Independents of Tredwstan, possibly.
		Griffith Jones, a great man; he marry'd Sir John Phillips' sister, who is of this extraordinary turn, he devotes himself entirely to ye Duties of his Function.
		Jones, Vicar of Cwmyoe (Cwm Iau), who is ye only one of ye same way of thinking, and I am told he corresponds with Mr.
	www.revival-library.org /catalogues/world1/bennettr/201.htm (2321 words)

	Nonconformist Preachers of Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1737 the Rev. Griffith Jones, Vicar of Llanddowror, and the most popular churchman of that day, was announced to preach at Llandewi Brevi.
		The touching story of Mary Jones is very familiar to those who have attended the Society's meetings, but few English people are aware that to a humble Welsh peasant girl the world is indebted for the circulation of the Bible in every language.
		Mary Jones died in 1864, aged eighty, and the Book she loved so well is now in the possession of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
	www.red4.co.uk /Folklore/trevelyan/glimpse/noncomformists.htm (7096 words)

	Pre Industrial Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A response to this call soon came, for Griffith Jones, of Llanddowror, a kind hearted clergyman, decided to establish schools were old and young would be taught to read.
		The Bible was used as the class reading book and Griffith Jones was able to make arrangements for copies to be purchased much more cheaply than had formerly been the case.
		As a result of the increased reading of the Bible, and the work of the religious reformers, the people of the district became more cultured and refined.
	www.trevor.jones4.btinternet.co.uk /PreIndTimes.html (410 words)

	A SHORT HISTORY OF WALES by Owen M. Edwards - EDUCATION
		But the people themselves still remain the judges of poetry; they care very little whether a poet has won a chair or not, while a gorsedd degree probably does him more harm than good.
		Elementary education, in its modern sense, began with the circulating schools of Griffith Jones of Llanddowror in 1730.
		They were exceedingly successful because the instruction was given in Welsh, and they stopped after teaching 150,000 to read not because there was no demand for them, but on account of a dispute about their endowments in 1779, eighteen years after Griffith Jones' death.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Wales/00000034.htm (1024 words)

	Llanbedrog Information Site - History of Llanbedrog.
		It is possible to visit the chapel today; one of the few such restored chapels remaining in Wales.
		The Enclosure Act of 1808 enclosed the whole of the mountain and many other areas of the parish to the Love Jones Parry family of Madryn; this was part of the Great Enclosure movement.
		By about 1830·40 the village was beginning to develop with about 25 houses (probably very small cottages), four taverns, three chapels, two smithies and a flour mill.
	web.onetel.com /~wernfawr/llanbedroghistory.htm (2875 words)

	Sweet Singers of Wales (c05a) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Being a contemporary and neighbour of David Jones and William Williams, he seems to have felt the stress and storm of the same religious conflict; and his devotion has very much of the same deep and fervent colour.
		He was influenced largely by the potent spirit of Griffith Jones, of Llanddowror, the Morning Star of the Great Revival; and for a time undertook the care of one of his Circulating Schools.
		These schools were instituted to impart the simplest forms of elementary knowledge in country villages.
	www.ccel.org /l/lewis_he/sswales/cache/sswales.c05a.html (382 words)

	EBC \| Cyhoeddiadau \| Y Goleuad
		Yn dilyn taith gerdded Mari Jones ym mis Mai, cyflwynwyd Arddangosfa (dan nawdd Cymdeithas Treftadaeth Bala a Phenllyn) yn olrhain hanes Thomas Charles, William Morgan, Griffith Jones Llanddowror a William Salisbury.
		Llywyddwyd y cyfarfod yn effeithiol iawn gan Mrs Mair Penri Jones, Y Parc.
		Roedd Thomas Charles yn cael ei bortreadu gan Penri Jones, Y Parc, a rhannau eraill gan Haf Greene ac Enid Jones.
	www.ebcpcw.org.uk /cy/cyhoeddiadau/goleuad/05-01-28-01.htm (1625 words)

	Theosophy in Wales
		By Griffith Jones' death, in 1761, it is estimated that over 200,000
		In the years leading up to the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales in 1969, these groups were responsible for a number of bomb blasts destroying water pipes and tax and other offices.
		Two members of MAC, George Taylor and Alwyn Jones, the "Abergele Martyrs", were killed by a home made bomb at Abergele the day before the investiture ceremony.
	www.theosophycardiff.care4free.net /histgenwales.htm (3272 words)

	Sep05 - Article - To Bala for a Bible - Elisabeth Williams - Bryntirion Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When Mary Jones was about ten years old, Thomas Charles opened one of his circulating schools in Abergynolwyn, a village some two miles from Mary’s home.
		Thomas Jones was an elder in the Methodist chapel at Bryn-crug.
		Mary Jones’ life was one of poverty and hardship yet she left a rich legacy, as we shall see next month.
	www.evangelical-times.org /Articles/Sep05/Sep05a05.htm (1407 words)

	Preface by (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Not only in the towns and villages which I yesterday referred to, but in others around, strange scenes are daily enacted, indicating not merely the intense longing for a spiritual revival among the Churches, but the actual presence of a spirit of religious fervour which rouses people to unwonted activity.
		Jones is on a mission) meetings are held in various chapels during the daytime.
		Among those who attended from a distance were the Rev. Penar Griffiths, of Pentre Estyll, who prayed and spoke with great force and earnestness, adding materially to the spiritual character of the gathering.
	bennieblount.org /relrev1904.htm (18783 words)

	A Bible For Wales: CHAPTER IV : The significance of the translation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In this century, William Morgan's work came into its own at last, and was used in church, at home, in the circulating schools, and after 1786 in the innumerable Sunday Schools which were set up the length and breadth of Wales under the inspiration of Thomas Charles of Bala.
		According to the world-famous story, Thomas Charles was visited at Bala in 1800 by a young girl aged fifteen from Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, in Merioneth, called Mary Jones.
		She had learned to read, had saved up three shillings and sixpence over a period of six years, and walked barefoot all the way to Bala to buy a Bible from him.
	www.llgc.org.uk /big/Chapter4.htm (1839 words)

	Dr J Gwyn Davies \| Griffith Jones Llanddowror \| ETCW Staff Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Gwnaeth ysgolion Griffith Jones gyfraniad aruthrol i fywyd Cymru a pharhad yr iaith Gymraeg.
		Ond caiff Griffith Jones y Cristion sylw yn y llyfr hwn hefyd, gan mai ei ffydd oedd wrth wraidd ei holl weithgarwch.
		A ninnau'n byw mewn oes sy'n brysur suddo i'r un hanner-paganaidd ag a wynebai Griffith Jones ar ddechrau ei yrfa, pwy a ðyr nad oes ganddo lawer eto i'w ddysgu i bobl Cymru?
	www.etcw.ac.uk /books/griffith-jones-llanddowror.aspx (135 words)

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